The granddaughter of a New York chaplain was shot Sunday morning by a bullet that passed through the window of her Chelsea apartment, police said Sunday.

The woman, who turned 26 on Saturday, was in her first-floor apartment in the Fulton Houses on West 17th Street near Ninth Avenue at about 4:20 a.m. when the gunman opened fire from outside her window, cops said.

The woman was hit in the elbow and rushed to Bellevue Hospital, police said. She’s expected to recover from the wound.

Deacon Keith Rippey, who works for the United Chaplains of New York, said his granddaughter had been celebrating her birthday at a roof-top bar earlier in the day.

Rippey said when she got back to the apartment complex, she got into a fight with someone in the building.

“One guy from her neighborhood, he touched her around her neck. Words got exchanged,” Deacon Rippey said.

Rippey added that his granddaughter is a mother to two young girls.

After the shooting, she told police she knows the suspect from the building, a police source said.

No arrests were immediately made, but police have a suspect in the shooting, the source said.