Exclusive | Bouncing babies: Four NYC tots have fallen from windows in last five months; pol demands Mamdani act

Four children have plummeted from city windows in the past five months, a disturbing trend that has some politicians calling on Mayor Zohran Mamdani to “focus on the basic, everyday issues” facing New Yorkers instead of “needless political theater.” Miraculously, all four children survived their falls.The most recent fall happened Monday in The Bronx when Dylan Moquete, who turned 5 in July, was critically injured when he tumbled out the family’s fifth-floor window at 30 Buchanan Place, police sources said.The child’s mom left the day before to travel to the Dominican Republic — and he was being watched by his 22-year-old sister, police sources said.Dylan crawled out the window around 7 p.m.while his sister was cooking in the kitchen and believed he was in bed, the sources said.The boy landed on the pavement 50 feet below, and was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition.“He has multiple fractures,” said a family friend who spoke on the condition of anonymity.

“Thank God his vital organs were not affected,” she said.“The trash that was there .

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cushioned his fall.He is out of danger.”The friend said the boy was able to get out the window beause the guard wasn’t installed right.None of the apartment’s windows were compliant with the 50-year-old city law that requires window guards in all windows that aren’t emergency exits in apartments where children under 10 live, a Health Department spokesman said.The windows “were not properly guarded as required because they allowed a space of more than 4.5 inches,” the spokesman said.The other cases include:During the fiscal year that ended June 30 — which included the first six months of the Mamdani administration —  HPD says it issued at least 5,868 window-guard violations in the city.

That’s a 17% drop from the previous fiscal year when HPD reported issuing more than 7,045 of the violations.City Councilman Phil Wong (D-Queens) told The Post the city should ...