text: Police say they're questioning the mother of a newborn baby girl - her umbilical cord still attached - found dead outside a Bronx apartment building.No arrests have been made.According to the New York City Police Department, the infant was thrown out a seventh-floor apartment building window with the umbilical cord still attached just after 3:30 p.m. The building is on West 183rd Street near Loring Place North in Morris Heights.The child's mother was located and taken to a hospital. The father was questioned and reportedly told police he was not aware that the the infant's mother was pregnant. He was released.Neighbors looked on Monday night, silent and stunned as word of the chilling story spread. "Oh. It just broke my heart. Just broke my heart," a neighbor said."It's just something that's so ridiculous. I can't believe that someone would throw their own baby out the window," said D. Joshua Charleston, a neighbor.As the doors to the Medical Examiner's van shut and drove away with the body of a newborn baby inside, police pieced together the details of the baby's death.A secretary for the building's landlord, P.R.V. Realty Corp., said police were investigating and declined further comment. She said 50 people live in the building.Fonzi Vucinaj's mother found the baby on the courtyard's cement floor. "To be honest, I've never seen something so unhuman like that; I don't know what those people were thinking about. I don't know what kind of mother would be to do that," Vucinaj said.Fonzi's mother was in shock seeing all that. "She couldn't believe it, she was shocked, how would you react? You would react bad too, everyone would react the same thing," Vucinaj said."I know him for 10 years. He's a very good father, he comes from a good home, his parents are very good parents. It's not like he's in the street, he's mostly home with his son, he babysits his son while his wife works," said Christy Mercado, a neighbor.Neighbors were heartbroken."It's crazy you know, a turn of events, a bad turn of events, We are all still wondering what's going on, we are all still questioning," a neighbor said."I'm hurting right now, I'm hurting right now, he's got to be sick in the mind, he's got to be sick, there's something wrong upstairs," another neighbor said. ||||| Photo Advertisement Continue reading the main story 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   Detectives are investigating the death of a newborn — her umbilical cord still attached — who fell several stories from a Bronx apartment building into an alleyway on Monday, the authorities said. 
   
   They said the girl fell from 130 West 183rd Street and that surveillance video captured at least part of the fall. 
   
   But they could not immediately say how the baby fell, whether she fell from a window or the roof, or whether she was alive when she fell. 
   
   An official with the New York Fire Department said the infant was found unconscious and unresponsive in the alleyway. She was declared dead at the scene, officials said. 
   
   The police said the episode was reported around 2:40 p.m. after the building superintendent’s wife discovered the baby while cleaning up a concrete area behind the seven-story residential building. 
   
   Investigators from the New York Police Department’s 52nd Precinct, in the Bronx, were at the building, trying to determine what had occurred. 
   
   “Obviously there is criminality,” a police official said. “But no arrests have been made.” 
   
   The police were questioning a woman at the 52nd Precinct on Monday night. 
   
   The police did not release further information about the baby on Monday night. A spokeswoman for the Administration for Children’s Services said it was investigating and that privacy laws forbade her to discuss whether the agency had previously been involved with the family. 
   
   Many residents of the dense block in the University Heights neighborhood stood across the street, staring at the building, with its main entrance cordoned off by police tape. 
   
   Some people walking on the block stopped to ask what the commotion was about. Their faces dropped when they heard why the police were at the white brick complex. A Crime Scene Unit van idled in front, and detectives walked briskly up and down the block. 
   
   Krissy Mercado, 33, who lives across the street from the building, said the police were speaking with her former boyfriend, who lives in the building with his mother. Ms. Mercado said she was also interviewed by detectives. 
   
   She and the man dated for four years before they broke up four years ago, she said. While they were together, he lived for three years with Ms. Mercado and her two sons. 
   
   She said she believed her former boyfriend was not involved, and added, “He would never hurt a kid.” 
   
   Tiffany Martinez, who lives across the street, said she was shaken by what happened. 
   
   “I get frustrated with my son a lot,” she said, but “doing harm to him never crossed my mind.” 
   
   By nightfall, people outside the building had started to leave. Beyond the police tape, a neighbor sat and sobbed.
target: – A 33-year-old woman could face criminal charges after police say she threw her newborn baby—complete with placenta and umbilical cord—out the window of her New York City apartment Monday, the New York Daily News reports. She reportedly told police the baby had died before she threw it, according to the newspaper. The wife of the building's superintendent found the body while cleaning a concrete courtyard behind the building, reports the New York Times. She called 911, and the baby was pronounced dead at the scene, the AP reports. "I've never seen something so unhuman like that," the son of the woman who found the baby tells WABC. "I don't know what kind of mother would be to do that." The baby's mother, Jennifer Berry, allegedly told police she gave birth in the shower Monday, the Daily News reports. Police say Berry originally denied the baby was hers. According to the Times, police are continuing to investigate the incident, and at least part of the baby's fall was captured on surveillance video. Berry hasn't been arrested, and charges against her are pending an autopsy and cause of death, the Daily News reports. "Oh, it just broke my heart," a neighbor tells WABC. "Just broke my heart."