By Nina Mandell
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN — A 4-year-old girl survived a terrifying fall down an elevator shaft Wednesday on the Upper East Side, the New York Daily News reported.
The little girl, whose name was not released, plunged two stories through a gap between the elevator and floor, according to reports. The girl survived the fall and is in stable condition at a Manhattan hospital.
She was crying when she was rescued from the shaft at 435 E. 83rd St, a building that has been cited for numerous violations on the Building Department's web site.
The building is owned by photographer Steve Horn, 78, and his wife Linda, an antiques-dealer and interior designer, according to the New York Post.
In one inspection this past February, the elevator was ruled "unsatisfactory" according to the Building Department records. The next month there was a "defect found."
There were no inspections on record after that.
