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Baby Girl Delivered at World Trade Center PATH Station, Officials Say

 Port Authority Police Officer Brian McGraw visited 6-pound, 14-ounce baby girl, Asenat Abdrabo, in Lower Manhattan Hospital after he helped deliver the baby at the WTC PATH Station.
Port Authority Police Officer Brian McGraw visited 6-pound, 14-ounce baby girl, Asenat Abdrabo, in Lower Manhattan Hospital after he helped deliver the baby at the WTC PATH Station.
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FINANCIAL DISTRICT — This baby wasn't willing to wait for the train.

Port Authority police officers helped a Queens woman deliver her baby girl early Monday morning at the World Trade Center PATH station, after the mother went into labor on her way to the hospital, officials said.

Officers responded to a call for a pregnant woman in labor on the concourse of the Lower Manhattan station at about 2:30 a.m. The woman, her husband and 2-year-old son were making their way to the hospital for delivery, but she soon "felt the baby coming," Port Authority spokesman Joseph Pentangelo said.

Port Authority Officer Brian McGraw, who used to work in Jersey City as an EMT, examined the woman, determined the baby was indeed on its way and made preparations for the birth. Within minutes, and with help from an Emergency Medical Services team, the woman delivered a healthy 6-pound, 14-ounce baby girl, named Asenat Abdrabo, Pentangelo said.

The little girl is the first child to be born at the World Trade Center since before the Sept. 11 attacks, and the second baby McGraw has helped deliver.

The woman and her new baby were taken New York Presbyterian/Lower Manhattan Hospital, and were doing well, officials said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo took to Twitter to offer his congratulations to the family, and praise the officers on a job well done.