BY JACKSON CHEN | A woman who went into labor during the Janaury 26 morning rush hour in the middle of the FDR Drive was able to give birth to a baby boy with assistance from several police officers.
According to police, Detective Michael Sharpe was travelling northbound on the FDR Drive when he responded to a dispatch call shortly before 8 a.m. The call was for a woman in labor on the FDR Drive around East 20th Street, but Sharpe eventually found the woman and her husband on the right shoulder of the FDR Drive near East 47th Street.
Sharpe joined the baby’s father — who was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher who gave delivery instructions — in helping the woman give birth to the infant, according to police. Shortly after the birth, two more detectives trained as emergency medical technicians arrived and cleared the baby’s airway and cut the umbilical cord, police said.
With more police officers responding, the group was able to flag down an ambulette, which transported them to the New York-Presbyterian/ Weill Cornell Medical Center, police said. The mother and newborn boy are in stable condition.
Police did not release the parents’ name, but the NYPD, on Twitter, named the baby boy as Nicola Wong.
