Girl, 3, in critical condition after falling from sixth-floor window in Harlem
A 3-year-old girl is fighting for her life after falling from a sixth-floor window in Harlem, cops said Tuesday.
The tot managed to get through a gap in a window with an air conditioner inside an apartment building on West 137th Street and fell around 1 p.m., according to police.
The girl was rushed to Harlem Hospital and is in critical condition, police said.
The 37-year-old mother was home at the time of the fall, cops said.
Neighbor Eustolia Gomez, 53, rushed to the little girl after hearing her hit the ground behind the apartment building.
“I was here preparing to cook when I heard something slammed. When I walked over there was a little girl on the floor laying face down.” Gomez said. “It was a really loud noise.
“I came running to look for someone to call 911 because I didn’t have my phone,” he said.
The first-floor resident said in the nearly half-hour emergency responders were tending to the young girl, no one came down to look for her.
“It took them a long time to come down. They didn’t even know,” said Gomez’s daughter, Alexandra Vivar, 32, referring to the girl’s family members. “I think the police woke them up.”
“Mistakes happen but that’s too much of a mistake,” Vivar said, adding, “Once you hear silence for more than a few minutes and you know you have a baby you go and check on it.
“Silence and the kid home is not normal”