Here’s the Bronx miracle girl — remarkable 8-year-old Destiny Antonio — continuing her extraordinary recovery from a seven-story plunge out a broken window at her Castle Hill apartment.
Destiny was in good spirits yesterday, sitting up, smiling, talking and requesting some of her favorite toys while recovering from emergency surgery to fuse her shattered pelvis, her family said.
“She called me and wanted to know when I was coming over and whether I could bring her teddy bear and her Uno cards,” said her sister Tanya Tyler, 28.
“I asked her how she was feeling and she smiled at me and she looked glad to see me,” said Destiny’s overjoyed mother, Robin Antonio, 48.
Destiny, who remains in serious condition at Jacobi Hospital with a broken right leg, broken hip and damage to her liver and intestines, fell at 1:15 a.m. Thursday as she leaned out a window to see a commotion in her building courtyard, her family told The Post.
“Destiny said that she was sleeping, and there was an argument outside which woke her up,” said Tyler.
“She said she couldn’t see through the bars [blocking her window], so she reached over to see if she could see some more.”
The curious child then climbed onto the ledge, lost her balance and slipped through the top portion of the window.
She narrowly missed several window air conditioners on her way down and landed on a grassy patch next to a metal grate.
“She remembers screaming when she hit the floor. She remembers trying to get up and thinking that she was going to get in trouble,” Tyler said.
The window should be cracked open a maximum of 4½ inches, but it had been malfunctioning for some time, family said.
Ron Haynes, the live-in boyfriend of Destiny’s mother, said the couple first informed the city Housing Authority of faulty windows in their apartment in August 2008.
Maintenance workers repaired only some of the windows and said they would fix the others on Sept. 3, 2009, he said.
On Friday, the authority had repaired the window through which Destiny fell. Another one with shattered glass has yet to be fixed, the family said.
Haynes blasted the authority for its unresponsiveness.
“Unfortunately, time ran out for them. That is why they are trying to wiggle themselves out of this guilt, which is even more insulting,” he said.
A Housing spokeswoman said she would not comment because the incident is still under investigation.