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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A 28-year-old man allegedly attacked a woman with a meat cleaver in Chinatown Sunday morning. Two firefighters from a firehouse across the street saved the victim by grabbing the man and holding him down.

The attack happened around 10:20 a.m. The firefighters flagged down a passing NYPD patrol car, and the officers arrested the suspect.

Cops said the victim was found in a restaurant several blocks away and taken to Bellevue Hospital in critical but stable condition. She had a total of 12 lacerations, a fracture at the back of her skull, and deep cuts to her right rib and right hip. Two of the wounds broke through her skull.

The man has been identified by police as Ming Guang Huang. He is being charged with attempted murder, assault, criminal possession of a weapon, and harassment.

Police say the victim is Huang’s estranged common-law wife. According to a law enforcement source, she showed police a text from Huang in Mandarin, sent on January 23, that said, “I am going to kill you and your sister with a knife.”

Cops said he has no prior arrests and is currently awaiting a psychiatric evaluation at Bellevue Hospital.

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