NEW YORK — 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.

The 30-year-old Queens woman was taken into custody shortly before 3 a.m. and charged with abandoning and endangering a child. She was expected to appear in court later in the day Wednesday.

Her arrest comes a day after police released images of a woman wanted for questioning and asked the public's help in identifying her. The woman was recorded in a 2-second security camera video clip on a busy city sidewalk carrying something that appears to be wrapped in a bundle and holding it like someone would hold a baby.

The baby girl was discovered Monday morning in a passageway at the 34th Street-Penn Station

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