4-Year-Old Boy Falls From 6th-Floor Window: 'He’s Lucky To Be Alive'

A 4-year-old boy fell out of a sixth-floor window in New York and miraculously survived.

Cops arrived to find the boy conscious and alert. He is expected to survive.

The unidentified child fell Tuesday from his Bronx apartment’s window and landed on a patch of grass at around 12.45 p.m., witnesses said. Officials believe the boy, living at the Patterson Houses NYCHA complex, pushed part of the air conditioner unit out of the window and fell through the gap.

“He slipped out in between the air conditioner and the window frame. There’s a gap there,” Jessica Lugo, 38, a FedEx manager who saw the boy plunge down six floors, told NY Daily News.

“He was trying to get up. He was conscious, but he wasn’t speaking. A guy was holding him in his arms. Then the cops came and scooped him right up,” Lugo added. "He’s lucky to be alive.”

Juanita Kelsey, 57, who was also present at the scene, told the outlet: “It was a miracle that he fell in this grass. That boy was still moving and he was fighting. I mean God is good, that’s all I can say.”

One witness, who was reportedly too traumatized to appear before the camera, told CBS2 that the boy’s 29-year-old mother was hysterical and came running over to the boy as he lay on the grass.

Cops arrived to find the boy crying but alert after the fall. Apart from a leg injury, the boy was reportedly out of harm and was rushed to the emergency room at Lincoln Hospital.

"I'm actually surprised this happened. I mean, this would happen back in the day when I was growing up, but with housing they have a real serious policy as far as gates being on the window. I know they come around and look up make sure the AC is secure, so I'm really surprised," neighbor Clarisa Alayeto told the publication.

Although apartments with children under 10 are required to have window guards in New York City, some neighbors said they still see windows without any guards.

"From what I can see, there is like no stuff on those windows," neighbor Jaelina Lantigua told ABC7NY. "On some of the windows right there don't have the gate, the covering with it."

A spokesperson for NYCHA said the child's fall from the building is being investigated.