A good Samaritan saved the life of a frightened 18-month-old girl spotted crawling atop a store awning in Bensonhurst yesterday.
“Oh my God, there’s a baby on the roof!” Qing Chen, who works at the pharmacy across the street, cried out.
“She almost fell a few times — she was just crawling around,” Chen, 27, told The Post.
“She stopped by the ‘o’ on the ‘computer’ sign. I yelled out to her, ‘Don’t move! Don’t move!’ That’s when she started crying.”
“She was just crawling like all babies do,” said pharmacist Gleb Chemerisoz.
“It was kind of scary, because she was approaching the edge of it.”
Baby Ayana had managed to squeeze through an opening between an air conditioner and the window frame, said the lucky girl’s grandmother, who was in charge of her at the time.
“This all happened so fast; she’s a very curious baby,” said the horrified grandmother who asked to be identified only as Gaby, 57.
As his pharmacy colleagues scrambled to call 911 and find a ladder, Chen ran into the building, quickly finding the grandmother’s second-floor apartment, and dashed out the window to scoop up the teetering tyke.
“I snatched her myself and held her close to my chest,” Chen said. “I handed the baby back to the grandmother.”
“She said she was cooking and had no idea. She started crying. The window has a gap in it.”
Ayana was checked out at Maimonides Hospital and released to her mom, who was at work.
“I don’t feel proud of what I did,” Chen told The Post. “I wasn’t trying to be a hero. I just wanted the baby to be safe.”