{"id":86684,"date":"2026-01-01T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86684\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T17:14:08","slug":"first-baby-of-2026-in-nyc-born-in-harlem-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/86684\/","title":{"rendered":"First baby of 2026 in NYC born in Harlem hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, baby! <\/p>\n<p>A pair of Manhattan parents got the best New Year\u2019s gift in all of the Big Apple \u2014 the first baby born in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The yet-to-be-named little girl was born at Harlem Hospital at the stroke of midnight, just as the rest of the city was watching the ball drop.<\/p>\n<p>The newest New Yorker weighs 7 pounds and 2.8 ounces and measures 21.26 inches, according to New York City Health + Hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>Oumy and Amadou Niang welcomed the first baby of 2026 in Harlem. NYCHH<\/p>\n<p>The yet-to-be-named little girl was born at the stroke of midnight. NYCHH<\/p>\n<p>The Niangs have four other children. NYCHH<\/p>\n<p>Her proud parents are Oumy and Amadou Niang, who already have four other little ones.<\/p>\n<p>The birth breaks the long-running streak of Brooklyn welcoming the first babies born in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/01\/us-news\/nycs-first-babies-of-2025-adorable-twin-girls-born-just-after-midnight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crumbie twins were born<\/a> just a minute after midnight at NYC Health + Hospitals\u2019 Kings County.<\/p>\n<p>The five preceding New Year\u2019s births all took place at the hospital\u2019s South Brooklyn branch, formerly known as Coney Island Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The newest New Yorker is the first of tens of hundreds of newborns expected to join the Big Apple this year \u2014 more than 65,200 were born in the five boroughs in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oh, baby! A pair of Manhattan parents got the best New Year\u2019s gift in all of the Big&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75,57,31095,9,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-86684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-years-day","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86684","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=86684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}