{"id":317878,"date":"2026-08-10T17:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317878\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T17:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:14:07","slug":"bronx-boy-5-critically-hurt-in-fall-from-fifth-floor-apartment-window","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/317878\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx boy, 5, critically hurt in fall from fifth-floor apartment window"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 5-year-old Bronx boy was critically hurt when he fell from a fifth-floor apartment window, police said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The boy tumbled out the window in the building at Buchanan Place and Davidson Ave. in University Heights about 5:30 p.m. Sunday, cops said.<\/p>\n<p>He was rushed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyp.org\/locations\/manhattan\/nyp-columbia-university-irving-medical-center\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia<\/a>, where he is in critical but stable condition, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/boy-falls-out-of-window-university-heights-bronx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS News New York <\/a>the boy landed on the concrete, his face swollen from the impact.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear if the boy was alone in the apartment. The superintended told CBS the boy appears to have climbed over or through a window guard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 5-year-old Bronx boy was critically hurt when he fell from a fifth-floor apartment window, police said Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,10,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-317878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-news","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}