KIPS BAY — A man had to be rescued after he tumbled down a kitchen vent in his East 26th Street building and got stuck for about 30 minutes early Tuesday morning, NYPD officials said.
The man, whose name and age weren't immediately released, was hanging out with some people on the roof of 220 E. 26th St., near Third Avenue, just after midnight when he decided to go back downstairs to the apartment he moved into two weeks earlier, police said.
Someone directed him to a stairwell, where he abruptly fell into an open kitchen vent and got stuck, police said. It wasn't immediately clear why the stairwell contained an opening to the vent.
It took FDNY crews about 30 minutes to free him, and he was eventually taken to Bellevue Hospital for evaluation, officials said. He wasn't injured in the fall, officials said.
