NYC toddler falls to his death from 29th floor balcony

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NYC toddler falls to his death from 29th floor balcony, cops say

By Georgett Roberts, Larry Celona and Dean Balsamini
July 2, 2022

A 3-year-old boy died Saturday after falling from the 29th-floor balcony of an apartment building in Harlem — as his distraught mother screamed “My baby, my baby” from the street below, police and witnesses said.

Neighbors described hearing what sounded like a “boom” and a “thump” when the toddler fell and landed on fifth-floor scaffolding of a high-rise at the Taino Towers residential complex on Third Avenue between East 122nd and 123rd Streets around 11:10 a.m, the NYPD said.

“It sounded like something really heavy. It sounded like construction,” Tangerine Castro, who lives on the 23rd floor, said of the thunderous “boom.”

“We just started looking and everybody started coming out of their building,” she said. “Everybody that were upstairs that could see down, saw the little boy with the yellow shirt. He was flat in the scaffolding.”

The child’s mother, who was outside at the time, then began to yell, witnesses said.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/07/02/nyc-tot-falls-to-his-death-from-29th-floor-balcony-cops-say/