Bronx Toddler Recovering After Fall From Window

Bronx Toddler Recovering After Fall From Window;

November 23, 2007 -

A one-year-old boy is recovering after falling from an apartment window in the Bronx Thursday afternoon.

Officials at Lincoln Hospital say Bradley Priebe is in stable condition.

His father says the child tumbled from a third-floor window in his aunt's apartment on Carroll Place in Concourse just before 5 p.m. The family says they thought the window was closed.

Police say the child fell about 20 feet onto the roof of a music store next door. The baby's father told police that his son was not seriously injured in the fall.

From: www.ny1.com

My opinion: Lucky that the boy was not badly hurt. New York City law requires window guards in all apartments where children under ten years of age reside. If the child lived at his aunt’s apartment or visited regularly then the apartment should have had window guards to prevent a tumble out of a window. It is up to the landlord to inquire, and the tenant to answer truthfully to the landlord, about the presence of small children in a N.Y.C. apartment.

From: Gary E. Rosenberg [personal injury/accident lawyer/attorney (Bronx-Brooklyn-Queens)]