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The first baby of 2026 born in New York City arrived in Harlem at the stroke of midnight Thursday, according to NYC Health + Hospitals. The unnamed baby girl is the daughter of proud parents Oumy and Amadou Niang.<\/p>\n
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The first baby of 2026 born in New York City arrived in Harlem at the stroke of midnight Thursday, according to NYC Health + Hospitals.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n The unnamed baby girl is the daughter of proud parents Oumy and Amadou Niang. She was delivered by Harlem Hospital staff at 12 a.m. on Jan. 1, weighing 7 pounds, 2.8 ounces and measuring 21.26 inches in length.<\/p>\n According to NYC Health + Hospitals, the child is the Niangs\u2019 fifth child, and the fourth delivered at Harlem Hospital. Mom and newborn are reportedly doing fine.\n<\/p>\n Other hospitals around the city are also reporting their first new arrivals of the new year. NYU Langone<\/a> welcomed a baby boy named Liam at 12:56 a.m. on Jan. 1, the son of a couple identified only as Julieta and David of Howard Beach, Queens. Liam weighed in at 7 pounds, 2 ounces. All are doing well. Liam was the top boy\u2019s name in 2024, according to a recent report from the city\u2019s Health Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another Liam showed up in 2026 at Elmhurst Hospital on New Year\u2019s morning, the first baby born in Queens this year.<\/p>\n Liam Steven Bunay Marcatoma came into \u201cThe World\u2019s Borough\u201d at 3:29 a.m. on Jan. 1, weighing 9 pounds, 5.7 ounces and measuring about 20.5 inches. The proud parents are Jose Bunay and Janneth Marcatoma; Liam is their third child.<\/p>\n The Bronx\u2019s first baby of 2026 arrived at Montefiore Wakefield Hospital. Aven Fernandez was born at 3:29 a.m. on Jan. 1, weighing 7 pounds, 12 ounces and measuring 21 inches. Berlin Fernandez is the proud mother, and shared the moment with the Montefiore team responsible for bringing her baby boy into the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first baby of 2026 born in New York City arrived in Harlem at the stroke of midnight…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23400,41922,41923,469,41924,1948,267,33515,41925,9,24,11,10,41926,1977,37943,3610,122],"class_list":["post-86668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-childbirth","tag-family-news","tag-first-baby-of-2026","tag-harlem","tag-harlem-hospital","tag-hospitals","tag-local-news","tag-new-year-celebrations","tag-new-years-baby","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-newborns","tag-nyc-health-hospitals","tag-nyu-langone","tag-public-health","tag-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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NYU Langone welcomed a baby boy named Liam at 12:56 a.m. on Jan. 1, the son of a couple identified only as Julieta and David of Howard Beach, Queens. Liam weighed in at 7 pounds, 2 ounces. All are doing well.\u00a0NYU Langone\n<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/liam-queens-elmhurst-hospital-2026.jpg\" "\\"FIRST")
Liam Steven Bunay Marcatoma came into \u201cThe World\u2019s Borough\u201d at 3:29 a.m. on Jan. 1, weighing 9 pounds, 5.7 ounces and measuring about 20.5 inches. The proud parents are Jose Bunay and Janneth Marcatoma; Liam is their third child.NYC Health + Hospitals<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bronx-montefiore-first-baby-2026.jpeg\" "\\"FIRST")
Aven Fernandez was born at 3:29 a.m. on Jan. 1, weighing 7 pounds, 12 ounces and measuring 21 inches. Berlin Fernandez is the proud mother, and shared the moment with the Montefiore team responsible for bringing her baby boy into the world.Courtesy Montefiore Wakefield Hospital<\/p>\n