3-year-old boy falls to his death from 29th floor balcony of an apartment building in Harlem

The young boy fell from a building in the Taino Towers residential complex.

On Saturday, a young boy, aged three, died after falling from the balcony of an apartment building located on the 29th floor in Harlem. According to the police and witnesses, the boy’s heartbroken mother could be heard screaming “My baby, my baby” from the street below.

Neighbors reported hearing a “boom” and a “thump” when the toddler fell and landed on the fifth-floor scaffolding of the Taino Towers apartment complex on Third Avenue between East 122nd and 123rd Streets at 11:10 a.m., according to the NYPD.

“It seemed like something really substantial. Tangerine Castro, who resides on the 23rd level, described the loud “boom” as sounding like construction.

All of a sudden, she added, “everyone started coming out of their building.” “The small boy with the yellow shirt was visible to everyone who was upstairs and had a view downward. In the scaffolding, he was lying flat.

Witnesses claimed that the mother of the child, who was outside at the time, then started screaming.

She was lounging on the floor wearing socks. She was yelling, “My kid, my baby, he’s up there,” a neighbor named 25-year-old Alexander Townsend recalled.

While everything was going on, the boy’s father “went downstairs crying” and attempted to climb the scaffolding to grab his son but was unsuccessful, according to Townsend.

According to the NYPD, the young kid was pronounced dead at 11:31 a.m. after being brought to Harlem Hospital for treatment.

Initial investigations indicate that the child’s fall was unintentional, according to the police.

Nidia Cordero, 58, a foster mom on the 34th floor, said her kids heard a “huge fight” and a “thump” from the 29th-floor balcony.

“The body of the baby can be seen when you look out onto the terrace. According to Cordero, he was only wearing his diapers and a T-shirt.

She continued by saying, “Then you hear screams.” “I believe the mother was screaming, and when I looked, the infant was on the scaffolding,” the witness said.

Cordero stated that she had assisted the child’s mother in the past, even going so far as to purchase diapers and milk for the child.

The New York Police Department declined to comment, other than to state that “the inquiry is underway.”