so often no one helps street victims. they ignore or --worse-- pull out celly-cams to post the gore onto youtube.  THANK YOU passersby for lending a hand.  well done.

There's a lot of jaywalking in Harlem. Just sayin'....

Morningside Heights isn't Harlem. It's Morningside Heights.

LaSalle is kinda like the edge of Morningside Heights and Manhattanville/Harlem, though.

Exactly. If you cross the street (usually jaywalking), it's Harlem.

This would not have happened if the cab driver were riding a bike.

I rather be hit by a dozen bikes than a car.

Nice to see people coming together to help someone. Makes me think that the world isn't entirely hopeless.

people in Harlem are really nice.

It won't be so nice when one or all get sued for aggravating the kid's injuries. That's what this country has become.

NY has a good samaritan law.

Yes it does. Have you ever read it? I did when I got my CPR certification. It only protects you if you're trained to provide the assistance you're giving plus there are other caveats.

I did in fact read it before making the post, and that was not my interpretation. I did see several websites with your interpretation.

"Any person who voluntarily and without expectation of monetary compensation renders first aid or emergency treatment at the scene of an accident or other emergency outside a hospital, doctor's office or any other place having proper and necessary medical equipment, to a person who is unconscious, ill, or injured, shall not be liable for damages..."

Granted, I did not check all the caveats listed at the start of the paragraph, but it would be quite odd for such a caveat to be stuck in a completely different section of law, and it would not jibe with the phrase "any person".

http://www.health.state.ny.us/...

You left out "...unless it is established that such injuries were or such death was caused by gross negligence on the part of such person"

If you see someone choking and give them a street-side tracheotomy without expectation of payment do you think you're covered? If you give CPR without knowing how it's done, are you covered? What if an embedded knife is the only thing keeping someone from bleeding out? If you remove it and the guy dies, are you covered?

No, you're not covered, you're screwed.

You'd have a hard time proving gross negligence in those situations (except for your silly tracheotomy example).

"(except for your silly tracheotomy example)."

You're a moron. If you ever so much as give someone on the street a bandaid you better not give out your name, or your asinine comment above will be used to show not only how stupid you are, but how, when given the opportunity to understand the risks of your action, you IGNORED THE ADVICE.

PS - FUCK you and anyone who takes  / honors the name of any communist organization / doctrine. Stupid shits like you should have wound up in the gulag.

Thankfully, there was a pediatrician nearby to help out.

Three cheers for Sabrina, the three other lifters and the pediatrician!  

I bet if no one saw it happen the cab would have drove off running the poor kid over.

Here's where I'd normally claim your reading comprehension isn't up to snuff, but in this case it's the Gothamist writing that is severely lacking, at least in relation to the linked Daily Snooze article.  
This is from the DN article: "The boy was thrown under a parked car before the heroic neighbors lifted the back end and pulled him out, witnesses said."