A woman dressed in high-heel boots and spandex was found dead on the subway tracks in lower Manhattan yesterday afternoon, cops said.
The unidentified white or Hispanic woman, believed to be in her 30s, had last been seen at McKenna’s Pub on West 14th Street hours earlier, law-enforcement sources said.
After leaving the bar, the woman used her MetroCard to hop on a No. 1 train at 14th Street and Seventh Avenue at around 1:40 a.m., sources said.
Her body was found on the southbound No. 1 tracks at the Canal Street station near Varick Street at around 1:30 p.m., officials said.
“We found her in the trough between the tracks,” said a police source. “She looks like she was out clubbing. Leather pants and heels.”
The woman, whose body was covered in soot, was pronounced dead. She was carrying no ID or cellphone.
Cops said she might have accidentally tumbled onto the tracks.
It wasn’t clear whether she was struck by a train. She had a head wound, but her body did not show obvious signs of trauma from being hit by a train, sources said.
Police were trying to match the body to a woman who was reported missing several days ago, according to a law-enforcement source.
Straphangers on the 1, 2 and 3 lines were delayed because of the incident, and the station remained closed as of yesterday evening.
The death is the latest in a recent spate of subway-related fatalities. The woman was found just one day after a 58-year-old Washington Heights man was killed by a southbound D train on the Upper West Side when he jumped on the tracks to retrieve something.
On Thursday, another man doing the same thing was also killed by a train. And last Sunday, an 18-year-old Long Island teen died running across subway tracks .