Transit Officers Help Deliver Baby In Subway Station, Police Say

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — Two NYPD transit officers helped deliver a woman's baby inside the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station Wednesday night, police announced.

Officers Ana Martinez, 29, and Stephen Geniale, 26, spotted the expecting mom, clearly in pain, inside the station underneath Schermerhorn Street around 10:30 p.m., according to officials and a Daily News report.

The two officers helped the woman into the Transit District 30 headquarters at the station where she gave birth to a healthy baby girl named Alson, the NYPD announced on Twitter.

Martinez coached the woman through the birth, while Officer Soner Ozuk, 35, and Sgt. Kevin Haniff, 32, provided backup, according to the Daily News.

Martinez told the Daily News she had never helped deliver a baby before but learned how to do it as part of her training.

"It could have happened anywhere else and thankfully it happened in front of us," Martinez said. "Looking at those little fingers and little toes ... I was tearing up."

The mother and daughter were taken to Brooklyn Hospital, said the FDNY.

The officers visited the new mom and her daughter in the hospital on Thursday and found her happy and in good condition, according to the Daily News and PIX11 reports.

"She was happy to see us," Martinez said in her interview with PIX11. "Everything's great."

Photos courtesy of the NYPD