NYC's first baby of 2022 arrives right at midnight

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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.

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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.

Photo credit NYC Health + Hospitals

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.

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