New York City welcomed 2017 with a bang and a cry as the city's newest residents made their way into the world.
It's looking like the city's first new baby of 2017 was born at Flushing Hospital in Queens, NBC reports. Little Nathan Peralta was born at 12:08 a.m., a 7 pound, 11 ounce native New Yorker.
Arriving shortly after at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx was baby Melanie, born just a minute later at 12:09 a.m., weighing 6 pounds, 9 ounces.
A third child, Jacob, waited until 2:51 a.m. to make his debut at New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.
Reports indicate Boston may have welcomed one of the earliest 2017 births with a little girl born at 12:01 a.m.
Regardless of who won the birthing race, all of these children are blessed not only with life but with no memory of 2016.
