Technicians told The Post that they suspect the woman was trying to sneak through the fare gate behind another commuter when the doors snapped shut on her head.

"I love Cardinal Dolan. He's the wonderful shepherd of this huge flock in the metropolitan New York area," one mass-goer said. "And he's real.

Santos Paulino Vasquez-Ramirez, 27, illegally entered the country in 2013, crossing the border in Hidalgo, Texas, and had three prior arrests before being locked up for allegedly choking cabbie Aurelio Zhunio-Orbez to death on Dec.1, according to officials and sources.

Santos Vasquez-Ramirez, 27, was arrested at his Pawling, New York, home on Saturday in connection to the Dec. 1 murder of Aurelio Zhunio-Orbez, according to authorities.