A woman gave birth on board a New York City subway Wednesday, the MTA says. It happened around 11:30 a.m. on a southbound W train in Manhattan. According to the MTA, multiple passengers alerted the conductor that a woman inside a train car had just given birth.

A 25-year-old woman from Florida gave birth on a W train in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning. She had been missing since last summer, her sister said.

EMS was called to the 34th St. station of the M, N, Q, R, and W trains just before 11:40 a.m., an FDNY spokesperson told the Daily News, and brought mother and baby to a nearby hospital.

Births are rare on New York City's transit system, but not unheard of. In 2012, Wanda Dueno, 24, went into labor on the J train near Chambers Street and gave birth to a baby boy. And in January 1993, 21 year old Vida Boateng gave birth to a baby girl at the Wall Street subway station on the 3 line.

Commuters rushed to help after a woman gave birth on board a New York City subway Wednesday. We're not showing the faces of the mother or the baby out of respect for their privacy. CBS News New York's Derick Waller reports.

The New York City subway was introduced to its youngest new passenger on Wednesday, when a woman gave birth to a baby girl in a train car.

Next stop: motherhood. A pregnant woman gave birth while on a subway train in Manhattan, according to officials. The 25-year-old went into labor while she was aboard an uptown W train at the 34th Street Herald Square stop around 11:30 a.