Big Apple\u2019s first resident<\/a> of the year at Harlem Hospital, right at the stroke of midnight. The yet-to-be-named baby girl weighs 7 pounds, 2.8 ounces and measures 21.26 inches. She is the fifth child of Oumy Niang and Amadou Niang; three of the couple\u2019s previous children were also born at Harlem Hospital.<\/p>\nBrooklyn\u2019s first newborn of the year arrived a few hours later, delivered by Phyllis Lynn, the same certified nurse-midwife who helped bring the baby\u2019s mother into the world more than three decades ago.<\/p>\n
Noah Joseph Lewis, weighing 7 pounds, 5 ounces and measuring 20 inches long, was born at 2:22 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2026, at Maimonides Medical Center. His parents, Chelsea Modeste Lewis and Devin Lewis, are residents of Flatbush, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
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Chelsea Modeste Lewis and Devin Lewis pose with their newborn son, Noah Joseph Lewis, at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn on Jan. 1, 2026.Photo courtesy of Maimonides Health<\/p>\n
Chelsea Lewis said she felt blessed to begin the new year with a new addition to the family.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t wait to witness the relationship blossom over the years between Noah and his big sister Jamie,\u201d she said.\n<\/p>\n
Both mother and baby are doing well under the care of certified nurse-midwives Lynn and Simone Chang, along with registered nurse Selena Chen. Devin Lewis expressed his gratitude to the Maimonides team.<\/p>\n
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Chelsea Modeste Lewis cradles her newborn son, Noah Joseph Lewis, following his New Year\u2019s Day birth at Maimonides Health.<\/p>\n
\u201cSimone, the midwife group, the nurses, and the whole staff at Maimonides were great,\u201d Lewis said. \u201cWe are immensely grateful to Maimonides for supporting us as we begin our journey with our baby boy and our new family of four.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maimonides Health, Brooklyn\u2019s largest health care system, delivers approximately 6,000 babies each year, making it one of the busiest labor and delivery programs in New York state. Recent investments in pediatric and emergency care, including the newly opened and expanded Children\u2019s Emergency Department, are designed to provide faster, specialized care in a dedicated, child-centered environment and strengthen the hospital\u2019s ability to support families and manage both routine and high-risk births.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Noah Joseph Lewis, Brooklyn\u2019s first baby of 2026, was born at 2:22 a.m. on Jan. 1 at Maimonides…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[8705,42140,98,100,99,23400,41923,9679,42141,42142,9,24,12,370,63],"class_list":["post-87467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-baby","tag-birth","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-childbirth","tag-first-baby-of-2026","tag-maimonides","tag-midwife","tag-new-year-baby","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87467","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=87467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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