Air of the Dog "He's a real-life Underdog!"

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Gust-blown pup survives 5-floor fall

By JESSICA SIMEONE and JAMES FANELL

He's a real-life Underdog!

A mild-mannered Manhattan pooch turned into a flying furball when a gust blew him up, up and away off his owner's 11th-floor terrace in TriBeCa and sent him five stories down and 30 feet east to a rooftop.

Alfie, a 4-year-old, 10-pound silky terrier, miraculously walked away from the flight with just a few bruises and scratches and a cut lip. "It was like 'The Wizard of Oz,' and he was Toto," said Jessica Gould, a neighbor who rescued Alfie.

The dog was swept from the Independence Plaza complex on the afternoon of May 3 after a thunderstorm whipped up.

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