Everyone Wants The Honey But Not The Sting

They won’t disrupt a rape, but they’ll help deliver a baby:

Sykes, a 16-year MTA veteran, was waiting on the platform to begin her W train route when she heard a commotion on an R train that had entered the station and went to investigate.

Surrounded by concerned straphangers, the young mother was splayed on the floor of the car in obvious labor, Sykes said.

Sykes ordered the crowd to back off and told the mother-to-be, “Just try to breathe.”

As MTA colleague Tyrone Cloud, 54, kept the crowd at bay, Sykes called out for a doctor.

When no one stepped forward, the CPR training Sykes had gotten in her previous career as a correction officer and the birthing classes she had taken long ago kicked in.

“You hear about this happening to firefighters and cabbies, but you never think it’s going to happen to you,” Sykes said.

As soon as she pulled the mom’s jeans down, Sykes knew she wouldn’t have the luxury of waiting for paramedics.

“I saw the baby’s head,” said Sykes, of Westbury, L.I.

Sykes pulled off her jacket, caught the infant with it and wrapped her in it. “She looked okay to me,” she said of the newborn. “I had tears in my eyes.”

Someone asked what time it was. When a passerby yelled 1:25p.m., the gathered crowd started applauding.