Baby New Year! Couple welcomes baby girl in Harlem at the stroke of midnight
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Key Points:
- New York City's first baby of 2026 was born at NYC Health + Hospitals/Harlem exactly at midnight, marking the first birth of the year within the city's public health system.
- The newborn is a baby girl weighing 7lbs. 2.8oz and measuring 21.26 inches, born to parents Oumy Niang and Amadou Niang, who welcomed their fifth child at Harlem Hospital.
- This birth breaks Brooklyn's recent streak of delivering the first baby of the year, which had been dominated by Kings County Hospital and Coney Island Hospital in previous years.
- NYC's public health system, consisting of 11 hospitals, provides extensive prenatal, labor and delivery, family planning, gynecology,
