Now moms can pump at Penn

Nursing mothers finally have a private place to breastfeed or pump in the nation’s busiest train station.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials on Thursday unveiled a new “lactation pod” at the notoriously filthy Penn Station.

The handicap-accessible room is tucked into the corner of the Long Island Rail Road waiting area, and is designed to be a safe, clean space for new moms.

The debut of the motheroriented room comes during National Breastfeeding Week and nearly a year after Assmblywomen Nily Rozic (D-Queens) and Kimberly Jean-Pierre (D-Long Island) asked MTA officials to establish mother-friendly breast feeding and pumping areas at the agency’s facilities.

Rozic said she was encouraged by the MTA’s plans to include babychanging stations and breastfeeding rooms at the much-delayed East Side Access expansion at Grand Central Terminal, but wanted agency officials to go further in their commitment to commuting moms.

The pod is manufactured by Mamava, a company that has rolled 46 other public lactation rooms in and near the city.

“It’s incredibly exciting to see an organization as large as the LIRR invest the time and energy and money into the needs of new moms,” said Erika London, spokeswoman for Mindr, a motherhood advocacy group.

“We’re hoping that many other organizations will follow — it’s really about time.”

Mothers can use the pod all hours of the day — they just need to check in with an LIRR customer service agent.

LIRR station crews will be tasked with cleaning and maintaining the breastfeeding room.

“My philosophy has always been to challenge my team to think outside the box, or, in this case, inside the pod,” said Eng.