The grieving father of a young woman who was found dead in the garbage chute of a posh Manhattan building choked up outside her apartment on Sunday, calling the fatal accident “tragic.”

The body of Jaclyn “Jackie” Elmquist, 24, was found inside the trash chute at +Art at 540 West 28th Street in Chelsea on Friday afternoon, several hours after she vanished following a work party, cops said.

“We’re going through Jackie’s things now,” her devastated dad, James Elmquist, of Minnesota, told The Post outside his daughter’s Brooklyn apartment Sunday afternoon. 

“It’s tragic and, uh, it’s just a bad situation I can’t really talk,” the distraught parent added, as he teared up and eventually became too choked up to speak.

Police believe Elmquists’s death was an accident, with the NYPD saying no foul play was suspected.

Video from outside the building where her body was found shows the unsteady young woman walking down the sidewalk before eventually going inside the building.

She appears visibly shaky on her feet, and at one point even grips onto a wall for support.

“It hasn’t been determined if she was intoxicated but it’s a possibility,” a police source told The Post.

Elmquist worked at Mission Staffing, a New York City-based employment agency, and had been at a company party before she vanished, her cousin posted on X.

It is unclear why she may have entered a seemingly random building.

Her cause and manner of death were pending an autopsy by the city Medical Examiner’s office.