A young musician was lucky to be alive yesterday after his head was impaled on a spiked metal fence following a terrifying fall from the third floor of a Chelsea building.
Rescuers used an electric saw to detach Nicholas Blossom, 21, from the fence at Sixth Avenue near West 26th Street.
A section of the railing was still attached to his scalp when he arrived at Bellevue Hospital.
“I just want to f- – -ing scream,” a heavily bandaged Blossom moaned last night from his bed in the intensive-care unit, where he was surrounded by family.
His father, who had flown in from California, was too distraught to speak. A woman with him said, “We’re just glad that he’s talking.”
Blossom, of Williamsburg, plays the drums for a rock band called Alaska Alaska. He’d been at a rooftop party with bandmate Corey Mullee, but ended up sitting alone on a window ledge at 4 a.m.
He was screaming that he “hated everybody,” cops said.
Neighbors called the police to report an emotionally disturbed person. By the time officers arrived, Blossom — who was intoxicated, according to sources — had fallen onto the second-floor balcony of an adjoining apartment building, landing head first on the fence.
“We heard screaming, and we thought someone was trying to break in,” said Tiffany Nagel, who was visiting her sister. “The medics brought him through our window. He looked like a little boy. He was screaming, and he stopped talking once they got him. He just went silent.”
Mullee said he and Blossom had biked to the party and planned to pedal back home to Brooklyn.
“We were all on the roof together,” he said. “There were a lot of people up there, and we were all drinking.”
He added that he lost track of Blossom and that when he called his cellphone at 2:30 a.m., he didn’t pick up.
Doctors told Blossom’s family that the prognosis was good despite his being listed in critical condition.
“He is out of surgery and making some jokes,” said his mother, Emily. “The doctor tells us that he was very lucky.”
According to family friend Dori Schmidt, Blossom grew up in Berkeley, Calif., attended Earlham College in Indiana and came to New York last September to intern at a recording studio.
“He liked it so much that he decided to take a year off from school and stay,” Schmidt recalled, adding that the multitalented Blossom composes music as well as plays drums, guitar and piano.
Additional reporting by Sabrina Ford