Newborn baby boy found abandoned on Manhattan street near High Line

A newborn baby boy, his umbilical cord still attached, was found abandoned by his mother on a Chelsea sidewalk under the High Line early Thursday, cops said.

A doorman working at a building on W. 23rd St. near Tenth Ave. found the naked infant left on the sidewalk at about 3:20 a.m. The baby was dropped off a few doors down from EMS Station 7, which is also on W. 23rd St., officials said.

“When he came out (of the building) he saw this little thing on the floor,” said building superintendent Cedric Frasier, 65. “I was shocked. (It’s) really painful to see a little baby on the streets like that.”

The stunned doorman ran over to an ambulance idling outside the EMS station and knocked on the window, alerting Emergency Medical Technician Mia Chin, who had just finished an exhaustive 18-hour shift.

Chin and EMT Patrick Feimer, who was about to take over the ambulance, immediately jumped into action.

“It was a fresh, fresh delivery,” Chin recalled. “The baby was on the bare pavement — no towel or blanket in sight — and the doorman had only stumbled across the child about thirty seconds prior.”

“When I approached the infant, it was crying and cooing and waving,” Chin said. “I was just so happy that the child was alive.”

“You don’t know what you’re gonna walk into,” Feimer added. “We kinda snapped into action.”

The two EMTs brought the baby into the EMS station before bringing the newborn to Bellevue Hospital for a medical evaluation.

“They immediately treated the infant. The baby was ultimately brought to the hospital where the baby is currently doing well,” said Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh.

“(Our EMTs) are always happy to help and today, they did exactly that,” she added.

Police located and arrested the infant’s mother, who was charged with the abandonment of a newborn Thursday afternoon, cops said.

Officers found Ayata Swann, 37, when she showed up at Bellevue Hospital seeking medical attention at roughly the same time her abandoned baby was brought in, said a police source with knowledge of the case.

Swann, who lives in a shelter in Kips Bay, could have avoided charges if she had dropped the baby off in front of the EMS station, rather than a few doors away.

Under New York’s Safe Haven Law, people can safely leave children at firehouses, police stations, or hospitals as long as an appropriate person is notified when the baby is dropped off, officials said.

Chin said the discovery of a naked newborn on the sidewalk caught her “completely off guard.”

“It’s that kind of thing when you’re put on the spot in a situation,” she said. “We have each other in times when we don’t know what to do.”

Fraser said he didn’t know why Swann behaved so rashly.

“I don’t know who’s the mother — or why they do like this,” he said.