A woman became trapped between two buildings when she tumbled 10 feet down a roof gap in Noho — and her pals didn’t miss her because they assumed she had just gone home, police said Tuesday.
The 36-year-old victim was finally rescued after residents near the scene at 308 Mott St. scene in Manhattan heard her crying for help around 4:30 a.m. Sunday and called 911, authorities said.
Responding cops eventually traced her to where she was trapped between the buildings, and an EMS crew smashed through a third-floor wall of one of them to free her, cops said.
“I want to shout out to PO Barone and PO Manel–they responded to a 911 call for a person yelling for help,” the commanding officer of the NYPD’s Ninth Precinct, Capt. John O’Connell, said in a tweet. “In their canvass and relentless follow up they discovered a person who fell 15 ft. between 2 buildings and remained trapped. @NYPDSpecialops ESU then freed the person.”
The tweet was accompanied by four clapping-hand emojis and photos of the skinny building gap and smashed-in wall.
The woman told cops she had been hanging out with friends on the roof of one of the buildings when a covering collapsed under her as she was walking and she fell into the gap, law-enforcement sources said.
Her pals didn’t realize what happened because they assumed she had just left, sources said.
The woman was taken to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation, ABC said.