A one-year-old boy survived a terrifying fall from a second-story balcony on a dead-end street in Maspeth on Tuesday afternoon, falling head-first onto the concrete driveway below.
Police from the 104th Precinct in Ridgewood responded to a 911 call of a child needing medical attention at 72-39 52nd Ave. at 3:30 p.m. and found the youngster lying on the driveway unconscious with trauma to his head. EMS transported the injured child to New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he was listed in critical condition and later upgraded to stable and alert condition.
Neighbors reportedly saw the boy pull himself up on a black railing on the balcony to have a better look at children playing on the sidewalk when he fell approximately 15 feet. First responders requested that Department of Buildings (DOB) personnel conduct a structural inspection of the balcony. At the scene, DOB inspectors did not observe any defects with the balcony or the railing. According to a DOB spokesman, no enforcement action was taken.
