This is really quite a difficult story to tell because the facts seem too bizarre but one man is in hospital following a freak fall out of a window at a Broadway Theater.
According to The New York Post, the theater-goer survived a plunge out a window above Broadway’s Lyceum Theater on West 45th Street today — landing on the marquee below, fire officials said.
Witnesses told The Post that the older man was milling around a second-floor hallway about 2:50 p.m. — 10 minutes before showtime — when he leaned on some heavy curtains covering the window of a french door along the wall.
The small door somehow opened, and the man tumbled about 3 or 4 feet outside, toppling onto the marquee for “The Nance’’ starring Nathan Lane.
“He fell backwards and landed on the [marquee],’’ said witness Andrew Castillo,22, of Bensonhurst, Brooklyn.
Theater-goer, Stewart Goldburg, of Commack, LI, said, “We were just getting to our seat’’ when the bizarre incident occurred.
“There were people looking at him through the window. They wouldn’t let you go near the window. He was out there for 15 minutes.
“I was talking to an usher, and she couldn’t figure out how he had fallen because the doors are normally locked,” Goldburg said.
A nearby restaurant manager added: “They took him off the [marquee], and I saw him on a stretcher.”
The man was taken to Bellevue hospital for minor chest and back injuries. At least he didn’t break a leg but how he fell out of the window is pretty bizarre.
