{"id":162616,"date":"2025-08-21T02:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162616\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T02:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T02:03:16","slug":"boy-5-survives-plummet-from-5th-story-window-of-nyc-apartment-complex-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/162616\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 5, survives plummet from 5th-story window of NYC apartment complex: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 5-year-old boy plummeted from the fifth-story window of a Brooklyn housing complex and miraculously  survived the scary fall on Wednesday, according to police and law enforcement sources.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster suffered head trauma and a broken arm, but was conscious and alert when first responders reached the NYCHA building along Avenue V in Sheepshead Bay around noon, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Maimonides Hospital and is in stable condition, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>NYPD at the scene of where a 5-year-old boy survived a fall from a fifth-story window in Brooklyn on Aug. 20, 2025. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>The window the child fell from at the Sheepshead Bay Houses. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>The little boy sustained head trauma and a broken arm in the fall. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>The boy fell from a window in his apartment, where neighbors <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/post\/5-year-old-stable-condition-falling-5th-story-window-sheepshead-bay-brooklyn-police-say\/17597664\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told ABC 7<\/a> he lives with his mother and two older brothers.<\/p>\n<p>The older boys, 12 and 13, raced to tell their mother about the plunge. <\/p>\n<p>A building resident told ABC 7 a nurse visiting her stumbled on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-year-old is in stable condition at Maimonides Hospital. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>Investigators at the scene of the incident. Peter Gerber<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen she went to look at him he seemed to be talking,\u201d the woman recalled the visiting nurse telling her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe seemed to not understand what was going on but was talking, he was alive and he was verbal so that\u2019s a good sign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Another building resident said the boy was talking to his mom and seems to be OK.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I found out about it my heart hurt because my mom always watches them sometimes when the mom goes to work,\u201d the young man told the station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cops said the probe is ongoing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 5-year-old boy plummeted from the fifth-story window of a Brooklyn housing complex and miraculously survived the scary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,54016,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-162616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-sheepshead-bay","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-us-news","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115064301462599371","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}