WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) – A city woman with disabilities who had been reported missing for more than a month has turned up unharmed at a shelter in New York City.

Tyhisia Cobb, 30, who had been missing since Sept. 7, was found after police were tipped off by a resident of a shelter who had read about Cobb in the New York Post.

The disappearance came as Cobb was in the process of getting a getting a financial windfall.

A Bronx State Supreme Court judge approved a $3.5 million malpractice award Friday after it was ruled that Cobb lacked oxygen after giving birth to her second child at Our Lady of Mercy Hospital in the Bronx in 1999.

Since that time, Cobb has suffered from a traumatic brain injury that required her to take medication to prevent seizures, police said.

Cobb took a train from Waterbury to New York City, where she spent a part of her childhood, shortly after her disappearance, according to Sgt. Chris Corbett, a Waterbury police spokesman.

Corbett said Cobb moved into a women’s homeless shelter in Manhattan, but was then transferred to a shelter for people with special needs.

Waterbury police, aware of Cobb’s New York background, had been in contact with New York police for several weeks now, Corbett said.

New York police found Cobb after one of the residents at the shelter where she was staying saw the Post article and tipped off police about Cobb’s whereabouts, Corbett said.

New York police then took Cobb to St. Vincent’s Hospital, where she was confirmed to be in good condition. Two Waterbury detectives drove to New York Sunday afternoon to bring Cobb back home.