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NYC's First Baby of 2020 Born In Brooklyn, City Says
The first baby of the decade born in public NYC hospitals was welcomed in Coney Island at exactly midnight, officials said.
CONEY ISLAND, BROOKLYN — The city's first baby of the New Year, and the new decade, was welcomed at exactly midnight in Brooklyn, officials announced.
Little Aiden Zobnin was born at exactly midnight on Jan. 1 to his parents Jennet and Artyom Zobnin at NYC Health + Hospitals Coney Island branch, officials said. He was the first baby born in the city's public health system of 2020.
Aiden weighs 7 pounds, 13 ounces and is 20 inches long. He is the Zobnins' second child.
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City officials said Aiden is one of 16,000 babies that the hospital system, which is spread over 11 hospitals, will deliver each year. The Coney Island branch delivers about 1,120 of those children, officials said.
Other private Brooklyn hospitals also celebrated the first baby born of the New Year in their branches.
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At NYU Langone Hospital—Brooklyn, the first baby born in 2020 was Khadra Hassan, who was welcomed to the world at 3:48 a.m. to her parents Mawada Mutasim Hassan and Mohammed Hassan, both of Brownsville.
Khadra weighed in at 7 pounds, 4 ounces, and was 21 inches in length. She is the first child for the Hassans.
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