Two good Samaritans yesterday rescued a Brooklyn mom and her 3-year-old son from the rubble of a brick building facade that collapsed as they walked by.
“I’m not a hero – you’ve got to help,” said Carlos Cinton, 36, who frantically clawed through the debris to pull the child to safety.
Niulka Almazar, 25, and her son, Juan Anthony Perez, were in stable condition at Lutheran Hospital with head injuries today.
A demolition crew was working at the site on Fourth Avenue between Second and Third streets in Park Slope when a backhoe inside the building knocked down an inside wall at 8:47 a.m. A secondary wall – the front facade – then toppled, police said.
Bricks from the falling facade rained onto the street, covering Almazar and her little boy.
Cops said the accident could have easily turned into a tragedy if Cinton and his nephew, Pedro Andino, 27, who work across the street, hadn’t sprung into action.
“You could see the mother from the torso up, but I didn’t see the baby,” Cinton said. “It was scary. I thought the baby was smashed.”
As the two men dug through the wreckage, Cinton, the father of two teens, spied a heavy piece of plywood weighed down by bricks near the mother and picked it up.
“I found the baby right under it. The baby was in shock, crying for his mother [but] the mother was out of it,” he said.
Police Sgt. Kevin Hayes and Officer Hirim Medina, who were a few blocks away, raced to the scene in time to see Cinton cradling the tot.
The cops then helped free the woman – and rushed them both to the hospital.
Richard Sheirer, director of the mayor’s Office of Emergency Management, said the two are in stable condition.
“They have head trauma, and the little boy has some internal injuries,” he said.
Acting Buildings Commissioner Satish Babbar identified the owner of the property as City View Gardens and the company doing the demolition as FMC Construction of New Rochelle.
The two companies had received a total of 11 violations since last month on that property, mostly technical violations. Both were in compliance when city inspectors last visited Aug. 13.