NYC straphangers help deliver baby girl on MTA subway train
She’s the Big Apple’s youngest straphanger!
Good Samaritans helped a 25-year-old expectant mom deliver a baby girl on board a southbound W train in Manhattan Wednesday morning, according to officials and social media videos.
The little bundle of joy was born around 11:35 a.m. while the train sat in the 34th Street-Herald Square station, cops said.
Good Samaritans on a southbound W train helped a 25-year-old expectant mother deliver a baby girl on board, according to MTA officials and videos posted on social media. Tamara Beckwith
Subway riders alerted the conductor that the mom had given birth, and the train was held in the station while the worker and police rushed to the train car, according to the MTA.
Video posted on TikTok appears to show multiple commuters surrounding the mother as a heroic straphanger cradles the baby.
“Only in NYC!! I just watched a woman give birth on the train..then watched a stranger cut the umbilical cord,” a witness wrote on Instagram.
“Welcome a baby girl into the world. Her name rn is Herald MTA Square.”
Cops said the girl was born around 11:35 a.m. as the train stopped at the 34th Street-Herald Square station. BLOOMBERG NEWS
Police said the tiny tot and her mother were conscious and alert while medics took them to NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue.
It’s unclear if the baby was named after the transit system, but the MTA nicknamed her “Baby W.”
“This is another example of New Yorkers coming together to help each other, assisted by caring transit workers and other responders, reflecting the best of the subway community and this city,” said NYC Transit President Demetrius Crichlow.
“We are thrilled that both mother and Baby W are doing well, and look forward to welcoming both of them back aboard for a lifetime of reliable — and hopefully less dramatic — rides.”
Additional reporting by Haley Brown
