A newborn baby was recovered unharmed yesterday after being thrown down a trash chute in a Brooklyn housing project. The baby boy was discovered yesterday morning after a super heard him crying from inside the compactor chute. The baby was quickly fished out and taken to a nearby hospital where he appears to be ok.
While it is unclear how many floors the baby dropped, police suspect that the garbage may have helped break his fall. While the boy is being taken care of at Brooklyn Hospital, cops are canvassing the area around the building he was found in (as well as neighboring hospitals) for his mother. Understandably, neighbors the News spoke to were disturbed by the news.
This is the second time this year that a falling person has been saved by trash. After the December blizzard a Manhattan man tried to take his own life by jumping out of a window, only to land on a pile of garbage that had not been removed due to the snow cleanup.
