Hulking ‘Spiderman’ prisoner who escaped from NYC hospital by rappelling down side of building is still on the lam
The hulking “Spiderman’’ prisoner who escaped from a Manhattan hospital Wednes🅠day — by rappelling down the side of the building using bed sheets and then fle🍌eing in a taxi — is still on the lam, authorities say.
“It’s embarrassing — you see the size of that guy?” a law-enforcement source told The Post on Friday.
Yenchun Chen, 44 — who is around 6-foot-3 and weighs about 250 pounds — was able to somehow make the risky broad-daylight escape from Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Gramercy Park in Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon.
He was tracked to somewhere 🧸in New Je𒁏rsey on Thursday, authorities said.
On Friday, investigators checked out a few possible addresses where they thought the escapee may hav🎃e been hiding out – but wound up chasing their tails because he was nowhere to be found, law-enforcement sources said.
Chen, who was arrested July 31 for criminal possession of a controlled substance, had been hospitalized Aug. 4 when he exp🍸erienced a cardiac issue, according to a DOC rep and sources.
A person in scrubs then approacﷺhed Chen at the hospital around 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and told him they were going to bring him into the shower, sources said.
Inside the shower, Chen⛄ tied up some🐲 sheets and used them to descend from the fifth-floor window to a roof below, sources said.
He then climbed a ladder down to the street and hopped into a yellow taxi cab and took off southbound on Second Av🌠enue, police and sources sai🌸d.
In addition to his hulking figure, the fugitive was a🐬lso described as having brown eyes and black hair, with tattoos on his left arm and left hand.
Hours after the escape, police released phot🦩os of Chen as he was last seen fleeing the hospital. He was wearing a blank white T-shirt and tan pants. He also appeared to still have a hospital bracelet on his wrist.
Anyone with information on Chen’s whereabouts is asked to call the NꦬYPD’s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).
In a similar case in Pennsylvania last month, suspected killer Michael C. Burham escaped the Warren County Prison using a rope fashioned out of bed sheets.
✅The army veteran and self-taught “survivalist” was considered “armed and dangerous” as more than 200 federal, state and local officers from 15 agencies searched for him.
He was taken into custody after a massive nine-day manhunt, authorities ▨sai🥀d.
In the Big Apple late last month, Rikers Island inmate Bokeem Jones, 28 — who was locked up on assault charges — swiped an officer’s uniform from a jailhouse gym and disguised himself as a guard to escape.
The assault suspect’s escape plan was short-lived, though —♔ he nabbed walking oℱut the door, officials and law enforcement sources said.
Back in May, Joseph King, 21 — busted on domestic-related grand larceny and assault raps — also wriggled out of his handcuffs a༒s ℱthe NYPD brought him to Brooklyn Central Booking, cops said.
He then ran off into the Hoyt-Schermerhorn♊ Street subway station, police said.Online records show he was arraigned last monthꦇ on escape charges, but the circumstances of his rearrest were not immediately known.