Meet NYC's first baby of 2026 born as the ball dropped
Oh, baby!
A pair of Manhattan parents got the best New Year’s gift in all of the Big Apple — the first baby born in 2026.
The yet-to-be-named little girl was born at Harlem Hospital at the stroke of midnight, just as the rest of the city was watching the ball drop.
The newest New Yorker weighs 7 pounds and 2.8 ounces and measures 21.26 inches, according to New York City Health + Hospitals.
Her proud parents are Oumy and Amadou Niang, who already have four other little ones.
The birth breaks the long-running streak of Brooklyn welcoming the first babies born in the new year.
In 2025, the Crumbie twins were born just a minute after midnight at NYC Health + Hospitals’ Kings County.
The five preceding New Year’s births all took place at the hospital’s South Brooklyn branch, formerly known as Coney Island Hospital.
The newest New Yorker is the first of tens of hundreds of newborns expected to join the Big Apple this year — more than 65,200 were born in the five boroughs in 2024.