A young Brooklyn mother pushing her baby in a stroller Thursday did what all New Yorkers do when the elevator doors open — she walked in. 
 
 But the car was stuck between floors below them and the two tumbled onto its roof, with the mom’s weight crushing her infant daughter to death. 
 
 The tragic accident happened at about 11:45 a.m. on the 23rd floor of 3415 Neptune Ave. — a Coney Island high-rise riddled with violations, including 45 directly related to the elevators. 
 
 Aber Al-Rahabi, 21, told investigators that she didn’t notice that the elevator car wasn’t there when the doors opened — and just pushed 6-week-old Areej Ali into the open space, police sources said. 
 
 The two fell several feet onto the roof of the car stuck between the 22nd and 23rd floors of the building — part of the Bay Park apartment complex. 
 
 Al-Rahabi landed on top of her daughter. 
 
 The impact killed the baby and sent the elevator plummeting down to the 17th floor, where first responders pulled them both out. 
 
 Areej was pronounced dead a short time later at Coney Island Hospital. 
 
 Salah Ali, 70, the infant’s grandfather, said the mother is in “bad shape.” 
 
 “She’s in the hospital. She’s injured,” Ali told reporters at the scene. “[It] breaks my heart. That was my grandchild.” 
 
 Al-Rahabi is still in the emergency room at Coney Island Hospital recovering from the accident. 
 
 A neighbor said that when Areej’s father came home, he nearly passed out. “They’re all screaming and crying next door,” the neighbor added. 
 
 Jeff Delacruz, who lives in the building, said his aunt spoke to the baby’s mother. “She keeps saying, ‘Everything is OK. It’s OK. God only gave me my baby for one month . . . She’s probably traumatized,” said Delacruz, 28. 
 
 His wife said the elevators are always out of service. 
 
 “About a week ago, the same one was out of service. The door just didn’t open,” said Elizabeth Delacruz, 26. 
 
 The Bay Park complex has a “chronic problem” with its elevators, according to one of hundreds of Department of Buildings complaints. 
 
 There’s one active complaint from Sept. 30 about the elevator that caused Areej’s death. 
 
 Two complaints for that elevator from July 17 that have been resolved and a complaint from March 9, 2015, that says the elevator is “constantly getting out of service” and “has not been working for 2½ weeks.” 
 
 There are 45 total elevator complaints dating back to 2000 at 3415 Neptune Ave. There are also 159 elevator-related violations in the complex dating back to 1994 — with 31 still active. 
 
 The Department of Buildings said the elevator involved was last inspected on Aug. 8, and one nonhazardous violation was issued because the emergency phone in the car didn’t work. 
 
 But DOB inspectors determined it could “safely remain in operation.” 
 
 They added the elevator passed inspections in January 2016, including a thorough, “once-every-five-years inspection” where special load tests are conducted to measure the weight limits of the car. 
 
 The Starrett Corporation, which owns the building, issued a statement saying: “We are saddened by today’s tragic incident . . . The incident is now under active investigation and we are cooperating fully with all authorities and agencies to determine the facts surrounding the event. We extend our deepest sympathies to the families involved and management is making arrangements to offer grief counseling upon request.” ||||| NEW YORK (AP) — A 6-week-old baby died Thursday when her stroller accidentally plunged down an empty elevator shaft in a Brooklyn building. 
 
 The infant's mother was waiting with the stroller on the 23rd floor of an apartment building in Coney Island around 11:40 a.m., officials said. 
 
 When the doors opened, the woman stepped forward and both she and the stroller fell down the shaft and landed on the elevator car, which was out of service eight stories below, police said. 
 
 A mechanic who had been working on the elevator heard the mother's screams and helped pull her to safety, police said. 
 
 The circumstances of exactly where the elevator was when the woman and stroller landed on it were unclear. 
 
 The baby girl, identified as Areej Ali, of Brooklyn, was pronounced dead at Coney Island Hospital. The mother was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries, police said. 
 
 Inspectors with the city's Department of Buildings were at the scene investigating. 
 
 "We will be testing all of the elevators in the building to ensure they are operating safely," DOB spokesman Andrew Rudansky said. 
 
 The elevator involved in the incident passed a thorough, "once-every-5-years inspection" in January, 2016, according to the buildings department. 
 
 In August, the elevator received a violation because its phone wasn't working, but building department inspectors determined it could safely remain in operation, the DOB said. 
 
 A resident of the building, Harold Noel, 37, told reporters they've had problems with the elevators in the past. 
 
 "Everybody is scared to take the elevator," Noel said. "I'm shocked right now. I don't know what's going on, I really don't." 
 
 Another resident, Robert Whitley, said the elevators were old. 
 
 "You press a button, it don't stop on that floor, doors open on any other floor," Whitley said. ||||| When 6-week-old Areej Ali’s body was pulled from the roof of a balky Brooklyn elevator, a would-be rescuer used two fingers to perform CPR on her tiny chest. 
 
 His best effort could not save the adorable cherub with the big eyes and the painfully short life. 
 
 A shocking accident sent the infant and her mother plunging eight stories down an elevator shaft Thursday morning atop a car under repairs — but without any posted warning signs, residents said. 
 
 The 21-year-old mom, identified by sources as Aber Al-Rahabi, survived and Areej was mortally injured just 90 minutes after work started on the failing elevator in a Coney Island building with a long history of code violations and elevator complaints. 
 
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 “She looked like a little doll,” recalled neighbor Lida Martori, 35, as she wiped away a tear. “I’ll have that image in my head the rest of my life. It was heartbreaking.” 
 
 The baby, seated in her stroller, was headed out with her mother around 10:30 a.m. on the 23rd floor in the privately owned Sea Rise II apartments when tragedy struck. 
 
 The baby and stroller landed on top of the elevator car, which was six stories below. (via Facebook) 
 
 The elevator doors opened suddenly — but the car was between 6 and 8 feet below the floor as the stroller rolled inside and fell onto the elevator’s roof, a police source said. The mother followed, landing on top of the girl and the stroller. 
 
 At that point, the car jerked and plummeted eight stories. A repairman heard Al-Rahabi’s screams and rushed to her rescue. He pulled the mom from the 15th-floor shaft first after realizing the child’s condition, police sources said. 
 
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 “I can’t believe it,” said a devastated Salah Ali, 70, the little girl’s grandfather, as he walked outside the building. “She’s new. She was a month old. That’s my grandchild.” 
 
 First responders were badly rattled by the sight inside the elevator shaft. 
 
 “It’s not something I’m going to forget,” said one visibly shaken firefighter after helping pull the infant back into the hallway. 
 
 The tot fell eight stories from the 23rd floor of the Sea Rise apartments on Neptune Ave. near W. 37th St. in Coney Island. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) 
 
 Al-Rahabi was taken to Coney Island Hospital and is expected to survive. The baby’s anguished father, climbing into a car outside the building, writhed as if in pain later Thursday. 
 
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 “No, no,” he moaned quietly. “Oh, no.” 
 
 The NYPD, the FDNY and the Buildings Department were all on the scene. 
 
 Tenants had complained Wednesday night about the elevator, with a mechanic from the Centennial Elevator Co. arriving Thursday at 9 a.m. He was working on the elevator at the time of the fatal malfunction. 
 
 Building resident Elaina Feliciano, 33, was gripping her toddler son Jaden a little tighter after hearing about the baby’s death. 
 
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 The baby's mother said the stroller fell when the elevator doors opened and there was no lift waiting. (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) 
 
 “My heart is really bleeding for them,” said the bus matron and mother of four. “This always happens in this building. They come in to fix the elevator and a week later it’s broken again. I have a 2-year-old. I have to look out for him.” 
 
 The building is in the middle of a large reconstruction project, tenants said. 
 
 “The incident is now under active investigation, and we are cooperating fully with all authorities and agencies to determine the facts surrounding the event,” said Jordan Isenstadt, a spokesman for the owner HP Bay Park I. 
 
 A woman answering the phone at Centennial said the company would have no comment on the death. 
 
 Centennial is the subject of two ongoing inspections by the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration at other New York City sites. 
 
 Salah Ali, 77, grandfather of the little girl killed in the elevator shaft, talks about the accident and "the love of his life." (Todd Maisel/New York Daily News) 
 
 One is 50 Broadway in lower Manhattan, where a Centennial mechanic’s arm was lopped off during an elevator inspection in May. 
 
 Harold Noel, 37, lives next door to little Areej’s family — and rode down in the faulty elevator when taking his son to school, before the repairs started. 
 
 “It was a little shaky,” he recounted. “I thought it was because of the construction going on. My wife called me and said, ‘Our neighbor fell down the elevator.’” 
 
 “Nobody trusts those elevators,” he added. “Everybody is scared to take that elevator. There’s always problems. My own mom almost died in that elevator years ago.” 
 
 Grenadier Realty Corp., the building’s management company, posted a letter on the elevator bank Thursday night stating all of the building’s elevators would be inspected, and promising updates and grief counseling. 
 
 Grenadier Realty Corp., the building's management company, handed out this letter to tenants and posted it in the building. (Kerry Burke/New York Daily News) 
 
 “We are all devastated by this tragedy,” reads the letter, which was also handed out to tenants. “In the meantime, we are working diligently with all appropriate authorities and agencies to better understand the circumstances of this tragic incident.” 
 
 The building was the subject of some 20 complaints about out-of-service elevators since January 2015 through last month, according to city records. 
 
 And the high-rise currently sports 50 open building code violations, including four elevator violations. 
 
 The last elevator inspection took place in August when a “defect” was noted, records show. It was not immediately clear what the defect was. 
 
 A Sept. 25 complaint noted that “both elevators (were) not working” in the building, while a Sept. 30 complaint stated that one elevator was out. During the summer, one of the elevators was used by construction workers to haul up material, the records show. 
 
 Many of the complaints note that the building houses seniors and tenants in wheelchairs. 
 
 “There are many seniors and a few in wheelchairs ... making it impossible for them to get into their apartments,” a Jan. 24 complaint read. 
 
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– A 6-week-old baby died in a horrific accident Thursday in a New York City building where there had been dozens of complaints about faulty elevators. Police say baby Areej Ali's mother was waiting for the elevator in the Brooklyn building Thursday morning when the doors opened, only for her and the stroller to plunge down the shaft, the AP reports. The baby girl's mother, who was injured in the fall, told investigators that she had stepped forward without realizing that there was no elevator behind the doors. The New York Daily News reports that mother and baby fell several feet onto the roof of an elevator, which then plummeted around eight stories. The baby was pronounced dead at Coney Island Hospital. The Daily News reports that there have been at least 20 complaints about the 23-story building's elevators in the last two years alone, and a mechanic was working on them at the time of the accident. Residents say they are shocked by the little girl's death—but not overly surprised to learn that the building's elevators were involved. "My heart is really bleeding for them," a resident and mother of four tells the New York Post. "This always happens in this building. They come in to fix the elevator and a week later it's broken again. I have a 2-year-old. I have to look out for him."