Police have identified the woman whose body was found on the subway tracks at the Canal Street station over the weekend as a 22-year-old theater student.

Emily Singleton, a Pennsylvania native who was living in Park Slope, appeared to have died from a fall onto the tracks and was not hit by a train, the New York Post reports.

The young woman was spotted at McKenna’s Pub in Chelsea early Sunday morning. She was later seen entering a subway station at 14th Street and Seventh Avenue. She was found Sunday afternoon covered in soot in between the tracks on the southbound side of the 1 train at the Canal Street station.

Police believe she had been drinking and fell off the subway platform, fatally hitting her head.

Singleton was a recent graduate of Bucknell University who moved to New York to pursue a theater career, the Post reports.

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Police are investigating after they discovered a woman’s body on the subway tracks at the Canal Street station Sunday afternoon.

Cops responded to the call about a woman on the tracks of the southbound 1 train at the station about 1:30 p.m.

The woman, believed to be in her 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police. It was not clear whether or not the woman was hit by a train, the New York Post reported.

She had a head wound, but no other obvious signs of trauma. The woman was last seen at McKenna’s Pub on 14th Street early Sunday morning, sources told the Post.

She then used a MetroCard at the 14th Street and Seventh Avenue station about 1:40 a.m. She was not carrying ID or a cell phone.

The medical examiner will determine the cause of death. The investigation is ongoing.

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South Ferry subway riders will no longer have to walk to Rector Street to get the 1 train. Service was restored at the stop Thursday for the first time since Hurricane Sandy destroyed the station five months ago.

The MTA has restored the old South Ferry station, which has a smaller platform than what riders are used to. The new station will take two or three years to repair, the New York Post reports.

Restoring the century-old station cost about $2 million, the Post reports. Repairing the new station, which was just built in 2009, will cost about $600 million.

Approximately 10,000 riders use the South Ferry stop daily. The new station was flooded with 15 million gallons of water during the storm.

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Cops are searching for a man who snatched an iPad mini from a straphanger March 25, but failed to get away with the device when the owner of the iPad chased him down and snatched it back.

The victim was standing on the uptown 1 train platform inside the West 28th Street subway station about 10:10 p.m. when the suspect grabbed his iPad mini from his hand and tried to flee. The victim caught the robber, struggled with him and retrieved the tablet.

The suspect fled the location. He is being described as a white or Hispanic male in his late 30s, about 5-foot-8 or 5-foot-9.

Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

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Police are searching for a suspect who punched a 35-year-old man inside a Manhattan subway station and then ran off with his iPhone early Monday morning, cops said.

The NYPD released a video of the incident that occurred inside the Times Square-42nd Street subway station about 12:02 a.m. The suspect is seen talking to the victim near the turnstiles, looking around in multiple directions and then punching the victim to the ground.

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  VIDEO: Straphanger punched to the ground for cell phone

The suspect then stole the man’s iPhone and headed toward the northbound 1 train platform, police said.

He is described as a black male, approximately 30 years old and 6 feet 3 inches tall. He was last seen wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and black or dark gray pants.

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

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UPDATE: The station opening for 1 train service will be an old station at the South Ferry location.

Service for the train line will begin in the old station in the first week of April, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced today.

The station was flooded 80 feet deep with about 15 million gallons of water, the governor added.

“The MTA has a long, tough job ahead as it tackles the immense job of virtually rebuilding the new South Ferry terminal station,” he said.

More work will still face the MTA at the station, including refurbishing platform edges and replacing pistons.

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