A dog broke free from its owner in a lower Manahttan subway station Monday morning, jumped onto the tracks and died when it made contact with the electrified third rail, police said. The dog, a chow chow named Meatball, died in front of horrified morning commuters waching helplessly from the uptown platform at the Bowling Green station about 9:40 a.m., cops said. The dog somehow got loose from its owner before making its fateful leap onto the tracks. ...read more read less