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The NYPD has gotten less attention for catching criminals this weekend than it has for catching babies. While yesterday's special delivery story came along an exit ramp of the BQE in Brooklyn, this time a cop assisted a couple whose birth plan ended up with an audible not too far across the river from there just out of the Battery Tunnel in lower Manhattan. 28-year-old Officer Theodore Plevritis was flagged down by a cab driver exiting the tunnel, honking his horn and waving wildly as Ester Abbot was going into labor in his backseat just before 6 a.m yesterday. The officer said he could see that "this baby was ready to go," and ended up delivering it within five minutes. Plaevritis, a bachelor with no children, told the News, "I caught the baby; she did all the work. She was slippery. I just wanted to make sure I held onto her." The officer says his knowledge of the process came strictly from a Police Academy training video. The baby girl and mother are both healthy at NYU Medical Center.

The Atlantic Avenue exit of the BQE turned out to be the exit ramp used by one more passenger than was expected Thursday morning when a police officer ended up helping deliver a baby alongside the highway. 37-year-old Officer George Tsoukaris said he hasn't had to help out on a case like this since his rookie days on the NYPD. When Tsoukaris was flagged down Thursday around 11a.m. by a woman in labor and her husband intending to take the BQE out to a Staten Island hospital, he quickly discovered that there wasn't going to be enough time until an EMT arrived...or even time for him to put on gloves for that matter! The couple has chosen not to reveal themselves after taking their healthy newborn to Long Island College Hospital. But the News got the adorable story out of the cop, who says, "She was screaming at the top of her lungs. he's yelling, 'The baby's coming out, the baby's coming out!' ... It's one thing to see the miracle of life in a controlled environment like a hospital, but it's another thing to have it happen on the highway."