NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- New York City's first baby of 2022 came into the world literally just as the New Year's Eve ball dropped in Times Square.
Leyla Gessel Tzunun Garcia was born exactly at midnight, weighing 7 pounds, 6.3 ounces and measuring in at 19.5 inches.
NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney Island laid claim to the city's first baby of the year for the third year in a row, officials tweeted.
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The baby girl was the first child for the Gravesend parents.
New York City's public health system delivers about 16,000 babies each year, officials said.
