{"id":318348,"date":"2026-08-11T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318348\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T03:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T03:00:26","slug":"news-12-bronx-small-child-falls-from-apartment-building-window-in-fordham-heights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318348\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Small Child Falls From Apartment Building Window In Fordham Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 5-year-old boy fell from an apartment window in Fordham Heights on Sunday evening, according to the FDNY and NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">News 12 was first on scene and obtained video that shows two police officers tending to the boy on the sidewalk before paramedics arrived. It happened around 5:30 p.m. near Buchanan Place and Grant Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">EMS rushed the boy to New York Presbyterian, where police say he is expected to recover.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbors told News 12 the child may have special needs and that he fell from a fourth-floor apartment window. Police confirmed that the fall happened from the fourth floor of the building.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;He was bleeding from the mouth and the nose. He was on the head. It was a little bit of blood coming from his head,&#8221; one witness said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say no arrests had been made as of Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">It was not immediately clear what led the child to fall out the window.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 5-year-old boy fell from an apartment window in Fordham Heights on Sunday evening, according to the FDNY&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-318348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","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\/318348","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=318348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}