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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, JAN. 13, 2019
Happy New Year, baby!
Parents welcome newborns across borough on New Year’s Day
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
It was the fi rst New Year’s
Day of the rest of their lives!
Brooklyn welcomed a
bevy of bundles of joy on
Jan. 1, all of whom entered
the world within hours of
the start of 2019 — and two
of whom arrived at the exact
same minute.
One of Kings County’s
fi rst newborns of the year,
seven-pound-three-ounce
Joseph Patrick Bernstein,
arrived at 12:44 am at Park
Slope’s Methodist Hospital,
leaving his loving his parents
lost for words, according
to his dad.
“Seeing your son come
into this world is an experience
that you can’t really
describe,” said Bensonhurst
resident Jonathan Bernstein,
who welcomed his 20-
inch son to the world with
his wife, Jennifer. “It’s just
overwhelming emotion.”
And at the same time,
young Zakariyah Mir entered
Brooklyn at Borough
Park’s Maimonides Medical
Center, according to
a hospital spokeswoman.
Parents Afi fa Mir and Mir
Rashid’s boy also weighed
the same as baby Bernstein
— clocking in at seven
pounds, three ounces — but
measured four inches taller
than the Slope-born child.
Another babe arrived
less than an hour later, at
NYU Langone Hospital-
Brooklyn in Sunset Park.
New parents Brucha and
Yisroel Avrum Teitelbaum
at 1:40 am greeted their little
boy, who came out of the
womb at 21.25-inches and
weighing eight pounds, two
ounces, according to hospital
spokesman Colin DeVries,
who said the parents
did not immediately decide
on a name for the newborn.
The next New Year’s baby
arrived just before 5 am
down in the People’s Playground,
where mom Amina
Riaz gave birth to a third
boy at Coney Island Hospital,
according to spokeswoman
Roseanne Mottola.
Riaz and the babe’s dad
Wagas Javed also did not
OH BABY!: (Clockwise from top left) Mom Diloram Mukhiddinova welcomed daughter Fatima Zahra, parents Jonathan and Jennifer Bernstein met son Joseph Patrick Bernstein,
mom Amina Riaz delivered her healthy baby boy, and parents Afi fa Mir, left, and Mir Rashid welcomed son Zakariyah Mir on New Year’s Day.
immediately name their
son, who entered the world
at roughly the same size as
baby Bernstein, measuring
20-inches and weighing
seven pounds, three ounces,
Mottola said.
And a little more than
an hour later, mom Diloram
Mukhiddinova and dad
Mustafa Boguchakov welcomed
daughter Fatima
Zahra in the same wing of
Coney Island Hospital.
The 21.5-inch girl stood
a whole quarter of an inch
New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn M Coney Island Hospital ethodist Hospital
taller than the tallest
boy born before her, and
weighed in at seven pounds,
14 ounces, Mottola said.
Maimonides Medical Center Coney Island Hospital