A 14-month-old girl tumbled out a fifth-story window at her family’s Bronx apartment today — but is miraculously expected to survive, authorities and neighbors said. 
 
 There are no window guards on any of the six-floor building’s upper floors, sources said. Window guards are required by law in apartments were young children live. 
 
 The baby, Xania Samuels, was rushed to Jacobi Hospital with head trauma after her near-death drop from the building at 3230 Cruger Ave. in Bronxwood. She was listed in critical condition as of 4:30 p.m. 
 
 The plunge, which cops say was an accident, occurred at 11:29 am. 
 
 According to a first responder, no one realized that the tot had fallen out the window until at least 7 minutes after the incident. The father was giving the girl’s twin brother a bath at the time of the fall, cops said. The babies’ mother was at a Laundromat. Neither parent was charged with any crimes. 
 
 Willis Sands, a 57-year-old emergency medical technician from Long Island, said he stumbled upon the baby “laying lifelessly” on a bloody cement pavement while dropping off some laundry nearby. 
 
 He initially thought the infant was a “doll” but soon after “screamed for a mother, and no one came.” 
 
 Sands said he turned the girl on her side to maintain her airwaves and called 9-11. Within five minutes, emergency assistance arrived. Two minutes later, after a fire truck came by, the father stuck his head out the window and screamed “Oh my God! Oh my God!” the EMT added. 
 
 “That’s when I realized someone had fallen out a window,” Sands said. 
 
 “[The father] was in shock,” said Eric Brown, who lives on the sixth floor, one flight above the baby and her family. 
 
 Brown said she ran outside and saw the baby’s limp body on a bloody pavement “twisted up with blood coming from her head.” 
 
 Other neighbors said she wearing a diaper on, one slipper and wrapped up in a pink blanket. ” I have five children of my own, so it made sick seeing her like that,” he said. 
 
 Additional reporting by Lorena Mongelli ||||| NEW YORK, N.Y. - A child’s winter coat may have saved her life. 14-month-old Xania Samuels fell from the window of a fifth-floor New York City apartment on Monday. 
 
 Samuels’ father said the child insisted on wearing her favorite pink winter coat on the hottest day of the year. The coat was so heavily cushioned it might have saved her life, according to the family. 
 
 “It just may have broken her fall, because she is so little, just a baby,” according to her father, who did not want his name revealed. 
 
 How could this have happened? 
 
 The child’s father said he was giving the girl’s twin brother a bath and the child’s mother was at a Laundromat during the time. 
 
 The toddler suffered head trauma and is in critical condition, but doctors are hopeful she will survive. 
 
 The child’s mother said there were no window guards in the apartment and complaints to the landlord were ignored, as told to the New York Post. ||||| When 6-week-old Areej Ali’s body was pulled from the roof of a balky Brooklyn elevator, a would-be rescuer used two fingers to perform CPR on her tiny chest. 
 
 His best effort could not save the adorable cherub with the big eyes and the painfully short life. 
 
 A shocking accident sent the infant and her mother plunging eight stories down an elevator shaft Thursday morning atop a car under repairs — but without any posted warning signs, residents said. 
 
 The 21-year-old mom, identified by sources as Aber Al-Rahabi, survived and Areej was mortally injured just 90 minutes after work started on the failing elevator in a Coney Island building with a long history of code violations and elevator complaints. 
 
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 “She looked like a little doll,” recalled neighbor Lida Martori, 35, as she wiped away a tear. “I’ll have that image in my head the rest of my life. It was heartbreaking.” 
 
 The baby, seated in her stroller, was headed out with her mother around 10:30 a.m. on the 23rd floor in the privately owned Sea Rise II apartments when tragedy struck. 
 
 The baby and stroller landed on top of the elevator car, which was six stories below. (via Facebook) 
 
 The elevator doors opened suddenly — but the car was between 6 and 8 feet below the floor as the stroller rolled inside and fell onto the elevator’s roof, a police source said. The mother followed, landing on top of the girl and the stroller. 
 
 At that point, the car jerked and plummeted eight stories. A repairman heard Al-Rahabi’s screams and rushed to her rescue. He pulled the mom from the 15th-floor shaft first after realizing the child’s condition, police sources said. 
 
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 “I can’t believe it,” said a devastated Salah Ali, 70, the little girl’s grandfather, as he walked outside the building. “She’s new. She was a month old. That’s my grandchild.” 
 
 First responders were badly rattled by the sight inside the elevator shaft. 
 
 “It’s not something I’m going to forget,” said one visibly shaken firefighter after helping pull the infant back into the hallway. 
 
 The tot fell eight stories from the 23rd floor of the Sea Rise apartments on Neptune Ave. near W. 37th St. in Coney Island. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) 
 
 Al-Rahabi was taken to Coney Island Hospital and is expected to survive. The baby’s anguished father, climbing into a car outside the building, writhed as if in pain later Thursday. 
 
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 “No, no,” he moaned quietly. “Oh, no.” 
 
 The NYPD, the FDNY and the Buildings Department were all on the scene. 
 
 Tenants had complained Wednesday night about the elevator, with a mechanic from the Centennial Elevator Co. arriving Thursday at 9 a.m. He was working on the elevator at the time of the fatal malfunction. 
 
 Building resident Elaina Feliciano, 33, was gripping her toddler son Jaden a little tighter after hearing about the baby’s death. 
 
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 The baby's mother said the stroller fell when the elevator doors opened and there was no lift waiting. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) 
 
 “My heart is really bleeding for them,” said the bus matron and mother of four. “This always happens in this building. They come in to fix the elevator and a week later it’s broken again. I have a 2-year-old. I have to look out for him.” 
 
 The building is in the middle of a large reconstruction project, tenants said. 
 
 “The incident is now under active investigation, and we are cooperating fully with all authorities and agencies to determine the facts surrounding the event,” said Jordan Isenstadt, a spokesman for the owner HP Bay Park I. 
 
 A woman answering the phone at Centennial said the company would have no comment on the death. 
 
 Centennial is the subject of two ongoing inspections by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration at other New York City sites. 
 
 Salah Ali, 77, grandfather of the little girl killed in the elevator shaft, talks about the accident and "the love of his life." (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) 
 
 One is 50 Broadway in lower Manhattan, where a Centennial mechanic’s arm was lopped off during an elevator inspection in May. 
 
 Harold Noel, 37, lives next door to little Areej’s family — and rode down in the faulty elevator when taking his son to school, before the repairs started. 
 
 “It was a little shaky,” he recounted. “I thought it was because of the construction going on. My wife called me and said, ‘Our neighbor fell down the elevator.’” 
 
 “Nobody trusts those elevators,” he added. “Everybody is scared to take that elevator. There’s always problems. My own mom almost died in that elevator years ago.” 
 
 Grenadier Realty Corp., the building’s management company, posted a letter on the elevator bank Thursday night stating all of the building’s elevators would be inspected, and promising updates and grief counseling. 
 
 Grenadier Realty Corp., the building's management company, handed out this letter to tenants and posted it in the building. (Kerry Burke/New York Daily News) 
 
 “We are all devastated by this tragedy,” reads the letter, which was also handed out to tenants. “In the meantime, we are working diligently with all appropriate authorities and agencies to better understand the circumstances of this tragic incident.” 
 
 The building was the subject of some 20 complaints about out-of-service elevators since January 2015 through last month, according to city records. 
 
 And the high-rise currently sports 50 open building code violations, including four elevator violations. 
 
 The last elevator inspection took place in August when a “defect” was noted, records show. It was not immediately clear what the defect was. 
 
 A Sept. 25 complaint noted that “both elevators (were) not working” in the building, while a Sept. 30 complaint stated that one elevator was out. During the summer, one of the elevators was used by construction workers to haul up material, the records show. 
 
 Many of the complaints note that the building houses seniors and tenants in wheelchairs. 
 
 “There are many seniors and a few in wheelchairs ... making it impossible for them to get into their apartments,” a Jan. 24 complaint read. 
 
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– A 14-month-old girl fell out the fifth-story window of her family’s Bronx apartment yesterday, and her father didn’t realize it until at least seven minutes later—but miraculously, doctors are hopeful the tot will survive. There are no window guards in the apartment where Xania Samuels lives, and at the time of her plunge, her father was bathing her twin brother and her mother was at a Laundromat. She was found “laying lifelessly” on the ground underneath the apartment by a passing EMT, the New York Post reports. He first thought Samuels, surrounded by blood, was a doll but quickly called 911. Her father looked out the window soon after and discovered what had happened. The infant was rushed to the hospital with head trauma and was in critical condition as of yesterday afternoon. Fox News reports that her father believes a winter coat may have saved his daughter’s life: She insisted on wearing the heavily cushioned pink coat, her favorite, even though it was the hottest day of the year. (Click to read the tragic story of a model who died after plunging through a hotel window Saturday.)