Woman, 60, Hospitalized After Fall From Third-Floor Balcony

A 60-year-old Brooklyn woman is recovering in the hospital after falling from a third-floor balcony outside her home, authorities say.

Fire officials say they got a call from a neighbor around 8:45 a.m. Friday saying that the woman had fallen from a balcony at the six-story building on Ocean Parkway in Midwood.

The neighbor said the woman likes to wait there for her husband when he was comes home from synagogue. The neighbor didn't know why the woman fell. 

A cousin NBC 4 New York spoke with in the woman's hospital room Monday also wasn't clear on the circumstances of the fall. 

The woman's condition wasn't immediately clear.

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