The mother of a newborn girl who was abandoned at a busy midtown Manhattan subway station with her umbilical cord still attached was arrested early Wednesday, city police said.

Police released surveillance footage of a woman wanted for questioning after a newborn baby girl was found abandoned in a subway station in Midtown Manhattan on Monday, October 20.

The subway stop is attached to the broader Penn Station complex — the country’s busiest rail hub, which sits underneath the Madison Square Garden arena.

"Knowing that my son's alive, he's OK, he's happy, he's growing, I get to see his first birthday in a month, that's the biggest blessing I could ever ask for," the child's mom, Azia Rodriguez, told A...