Escaped Prisoner Captured In Queens After Month On Lam: NYPD

LONG ISLAND CITY, NY — A prisoner who used tied-up bedsheets to shimmy from a fifth-floor Manhattan hospital window has been captured in Long Island City more than a month after his daring escape, police said.

Cops arrested Yenchun Chen, 44, Tuesday morning inside a 45th Avenue building not far from his home, NYPD officials said.

The arrest wraps up a monthlong manhunt for the 6-foot-3-inch tall, 250-pound and tattooed Chen.

Chen had been in Department of Correction custody on a drug charge when he suffered a heart issue that brought him to Mount Sinai Beth Israel on the Lower East Side, authorities said.

He escaped Aug. 10 by tying up sheets inside a hospital shower, scaling down his fifth-floor window to a roof and then climbing down a ladder to the street, the New York Post reports.

Chen then took a yellow cab headed down Second Avenue, and apparently flew off the NYPD's radar until his arrest Tuesday about 8 a.m. inside 10-01 45th Ave., near Vernon Boulevard, authorities said.