Unexpected Delivery Comes To Penn Station
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Several police officers helped deliver a baby Wednesday morning in the middle of Manhattan's Penn Station.
Officials say three NYPD police officers and an Amtrak police officer spotted 29-year-old Marie Booth going into labor by an escalator in the station.
After about two minutes, police say they were able to deliver the baby -- right under the 'departures' sign.
Booth's husband, Jonathan, says the two were on their way from New Jersey to a hospital in the Bronx, where their first baby was born.
He says he was about to call an ambulance when his wife said she couldn't wait.
"As soon as we got to Penn Station I told her I would just call an ambulance to see if we could get some assistance because we were heading to the Bronx," said Jonathan Booth.
"When I got off the escalator that's when I was like you know what, forget the ambulance and everything else. I'm gonna have the baby right here," said Marie Booth.
The family was taken to Bellevue Hospital after the birth.
The couple named the baby Caesar with the middle name Penn.