A man is lucky to be alive today after falling out of a window at the Lyceum Theater on Broadway Sunday.
According to The New York Daily News, the incident took place during the matinee performance of The Nance with Nathan Lane. The man was leaning against a window that was covered by curtains around 2:50 p.m., just before showtime. He fell out of the window, falling onto the theater’s ornate marquee.
“He went over the windowsill and out. He lost his balance,” an FDNY source told the Daily News.
Stewart Goldburg, who saw the incident, told The New York Post that the man was on the marquee 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,” he said.
“They took him off the [marquee], and I saw him on a stretcher,” a restaurant owner in the area told the Post.
The man is in his 60s and he was rushed to Bellevue Hospital. Thankfully, he only sustained minor chest and back injuries.
The Lyceum Theater was built in 1903