The 3-year-old son of two city cops plunged from his family’s fourth-story apartment in The Bronx last night — but his fall was cushioned by tree limbs that helped save his life, witnesses and authorities said.
“I heard someone crying and saw [the mom] and the baby in the back [yard]. The mom was saying, ‘My baby! My baby! My baby!’ ” said a neighbor.
“The mother was hysterical. The baby was in his diaper, bleeding from his mouth . . . [But] he was crying nice and strong.”
The toddler, who is autistic, fell at around 7 p.m. from one of the apartment’s three rear windows — the only one without guards — at 1062 Huntingdon Ave. in the Throggs Neck section, cops said.
The room is usually locked, but the child somehow got inside and leaned against the window screen and tumbled out, sources said.
“The good thing was, there’s a tree in the yard. The tree kind of slowed his fall,” said neighbor Jay Mandel.
The child was rushed to Jacobi Hospital. His injuries weren’t considered life-threatening.