9-Year-Old Survives 6-Story Fall From Harlem Building: Police

HARLEM, NY — A young girl survived a scary fall from the window of a Harlem public housing building, an NYPD spokesman said.

The girl, who is 9-years-old, tumbled from the sixth-floor window of a West 129th Street building that's part of the St. Nicholas Houses complex and landed on the first-floor roof of a child care center, police said. The girl was taken to Harlem Hospital suffering serious injuries but is expected to live, police said.

Residents of the public housing development told the New York Post that they heard a loud bang and then the child's cries for help.

The girl was apparently leaning or sitting on an air conditioning unit in her family's apartment before the fall, police said. She was home alone at the time of the fall, police said.

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