MIRACLE BABY SURVIVES FALL
Bx. tot, 2, lands on awning, survives 5-story tumble
A LUCKY little girl miraculously survived a five-story fall from her bedroom window on Friday when she landed on an awning outside her Bronx building.
Two-year-old Audrianna Dzyuba often sits safely on the window sill of her sixth floor bedroom, where she likes to play with her tablet, her mother told the Daily News.
The window, overlooking Mosholu Ave. in Riverdale, is never open and Audrianna is too small to work the latch, added mom Kelley Dzyuba, 31.
But on Friday at around 6:30 p.m., the tyke’s cousin, Isabelle Goff, 17, wanted to listen to the rain — so she opened the window. The pair share the small bedroom, where Audrianna’s name is stenciled in rainbow colors on the wall.
Isabelle left the room for a moment to get a slice of pizza from a dining table just outside the door, leaving her cousin alone. Instantly, she heard a thundering sound and the cries of her younger cousin coming from five floors below.
“I looked out the window and there she was on the awning down below,” Isabelle told The News. “I screamed.”
Audrianna, amazingly, landed atop the green canvas canopy outside the front door of the co-op building.
The 20-foot-long metal-ribbed overhang stretches only eight feet across.
Audrianna’s mom said hearing her daughter’s screams from a room away and five flights up was the stuff of nightmares.
“My heart sank and it hasn’t come back up yet,” the stunned mother said. “It’s an absolute miracle.”
The toddler’s father rushed down to the sidewalk but couldn’t reach his crying daughter.
A neighbor whose second floor window opens next to the covering was able to reach out and pull her inside.
“It was pretty shocking, she only has a bruise on her right arm,” Dzyuba. “No broken bones, no injuries, nothing.
“The cops said let her play the lottery because she’s the luckiest kid in the world,” she added.
The family moved to the Bronx from California only six months ago and said they were unaware they had to notify their landlord that they needed window guards to protect Audrianna and her 4-year-old brother Benny.
Isabelle showed The News a notice from the building about the safety bars she said they received only hours before the near-tragedy.
Audrianna, who goes by the nickname Angel, was taken to Jacobi Medical Center for observation after the harrowing ordeal.
Her father, Alex Dzyuba, 31, who runs his own IT firm, joked that he was using the hospital bed while his little girl was up playing and exploring the room.
“She’s probably going to be a gymnast,” he said. “I’m just glad that she’s alive and alright.”