SEE IT: Runaway Dog Zig Zags Through Queens Midtown Tunnel

LONG ISLAND CITY, QUEENS — On Tuesday, the MTA released a video from the Queens Midtown Tunnel showing a dog zig-zagging through rush hour traffic and avoiding transit agency officials.

The video, which was taken on the evening of Tuesday June 8, shows a dog, who was later identified as Indie, enter the Manhattan-bound lane of the tunnel, and run in the opposite direction of traffic.

After clearing the tunnel of cars, a transit agency official tried to capture her, but Indie is shown racing away, through the tunnel and then up the Long Island Expressway — a minute-long clip from the week-long, cross-borough odyssey that ended in her rescue from a Long Island City warehouse.

At the beginning of June, Indie ran away from her dog sitter on the Upper West Side.

Her owner, Heather Angus, then launched a multi-part rescue effort, which included posting flyers across the city, contacting city agencies, and spreading the word on social media — a process that she said “took all my time,” but ultimately paid off.

After Indie ran through the Queens Midtown Tunnel, an on-duty officer, Heather Minutello, connected with Angus through a lost dog Facebook group, and tipped her off that Indie was likely in Queens.

Angus put fliers up in areas near the Queens Midtown Tunnel, including Long Island City, where a warehouse worker ultimately found Indie a couple of days later.

At a Tuesday news conference in front of the Queens Midtown Tunnel, Angus described Minutello’s tip as “life-saving,” applauding her and Sergeant Orlando Caholo’s efforts to stop traffic in the tunnel and help Indie run safely through to Long Island City.

Both Minutello and Caholo were honored at the news conference, and given certificates of commendations from the MTA for helping to save Indie.

Richard Hildebrand, the Vice President and Chief of Operations of MTA Bridges and Tunnels, said that the officers “went out of their way to try and save a lost dog, exemplifying our agency’s commitment to protecting all New Yorkers, even the four-legged ones.”

Indie, who appeared alongside Angus at the news conference wearing a secure-looking harness and leash, came to express her gratitude and right a wrong, according to her owner.

“I thought we may be here to pay Indie's toll because she was not wearing an E-ZPass that day,” said Angus at the news conference, to which Hildebrand responded that he and other MTA officials have decided to let Indie go through for free — just this once.