A harrowing video captured the moment a young girl’s arm was caught in an elevator door — and the hero New Jersey doorman who responded to the scene said the sound of her screaming alone got him to run up seven flights of stairs to help rescue her.
Zoe Garatziotis, then 5, was en route to the pool at 1450 Washington at Hudson Tea in Hoboken with her mother and siblings in July when her arm was violently sucked into the elevator door shaft, video from inside the lift obtained by WABC showed .
Doorman Manny Batista told The Post that he heard Zoe’s screams from the front desk, seven flights away.
“I ran up all seven flights of stairs and I was hearing screams the whole time,” he said Saturday.
“It was very scary because I have kids of my own, so I know the scream of hurt, of pain … I know the difference between pain and fun [screams]. She was in pain,” Batista added.
“I had to run up the stairs to stop the elevator, to put the key in and shut down the elevator so that it didn’t keep going up and down.”