Man Saves Baby Brooklyn Awning

Man Saves Baby Brooklyn Awning, An adventurous baby in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York escaped her family's second-floor apartment and crawled onto the awning of the shop below.

If it weren't for the workers at the pharmacy across the street, or the pedestrians who witnessed the fall, the 18-month-old girl's solo romp might have been her last.

According to a witness, the baby crawled out of the apartment through a vent for an air-conditioning unit and onto the awning of the computer store below around 2pm on Friday.

27-year-old Qing Chen, who works at Pure Health Pharmacy across the street on 18th Avenue, saw the baby fall out and ran over to the apartment building to save her.

'She was crawling back and forth and to the edge she was about to fall off. And that's when we yelled at her and crawled back to where the letter 'O' was and she sat there. We screamed at her [and] said "Don't move" and she started crying and she just sat there,' Chen told Eyewitness 7 News.

At first, other witnesses tried to rescue the baby by using a ladder, but she was out of reach.

'My boss actually got on top with the orange shirt and he put his hand up just in case the baby rolled over he would catch her,' said Amy Vaccaro.

While other witnesses stood below the awning, hands outstretched in case she crawled off, Chen found a way into the building and ran upstairs to the family's apartment.

The girl's mother was in the middle of cooking and hadn't noticed her daughter's disappearance.

Chen crawled out the window and onto the awning the same way the baby did, and grabbed her before it was too late.

The father of a 10-month-old himself, Chen said it could have happened to anyone's child and he was just doing what anyone else would have done in the situation.

'I don't feel like [a] hero or anything like that. Anybody would step in like that,' Chen said.

The girl was uninjured in the ordeal, but taken to Maimonides hospital as a precaution.