Oh, Baby! New Year off to great start for families
First newborns of 2016 announced
While most people were popping champagne corks, blowing horns and tossing confetti to celebrate the New Year, Stephanie Diaz ushered in 2016 by giving birth at Coney Island Hospital.
Diaz, who gave birth to her baby son Zayden Noel at exactly midnight on Jan. 1, also secured a place for herself and her little boy in the city’s record books.
That’s because Little Zayden enjoyed the distinction of being the first baby of 2016 for the New York City Health + Hospitals Corp., the entity that operates the city’s 11 public hospitals.
Zayden, weighing in at 7 pounds, 1 ounce, is Diaz’s second child to be born in Coney Island Hospital.