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Toddler Survives Fall From 3rd Floor Window On LES
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Rebecca Fishbein
Published Apr 23, 2014
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A two-year-old boy survived a fall from the window of a third floor apartment on the Lower East Side this morning after miraculously landing on a garbage bin, according to authorities.
Cops say the toddler fell out of a third floor window at 177 Chrystie Street near Rivington Street at around 1:21 a.m. He was transported to Bellevue Hospital in stable condition, and officials say they are still investigating how he fell.
Witnesses say the boy, whom the Post identified as Jayvin Cruz, 2, landed on a plastic garbage container instead of on the ground, and thankfully only suffered some non life-threatening bumps and bruises. "I said, 'Whoa, good thing for that,' because otherwise the baby would've hit the concrete," Earl Boyd, who heard the boy hit the garbage shed from a nearby park, told NBC News. "The baby was still crying. I said, 'Oh, good, the baby's alive."
Reports say the child's parents retrieved him almost immediately after he fell. His grandmother, Carmen Fernandez, 59, said Jayvin had been playing in a room while his father slept on the couch. "I opened my eyes, everybody's running and screaming, 'What happened? What happened?'" she told ABC News. "So I was running too."
One window in the apartment did not have window guards, and Fernandez told the Daily News the landlord was supposed to have installed one; no criminality is suspected, and no charges have been filed.
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