As New Yorkers celebrated the arrival of 2025 with champagne toasts and fireworks, one family in Brooklyn had a doubly joyous reason to cheer. Sheneece Crumbie and Jordan Tomlinson, residents of Crown Heights, welcomed not one but two new members to their family right as the clock struck midnight. Their twin girls became the city's first newborns of 2025, with one arriving at 12:01 a.m. and the second at 12:02 a.m., at NYC Health + Hospitals/Kings County. ABC7NY reported that the twins' arrival marked the addition of the couple's third and fourth children, with the newborns weighing in at 6 pounds, 13.9 ounces and 5 pounds, 15.4 ounces respectively.
Meanwhile, over at NYU Langone Health's Tisch Hospital, another family was rejoicing the delayed Christmas gift they absolutely had to wait into the new year to unwrap. Naomi and Jacob Gottesman, hailing from the Rockaways in Queens, were gifted with a baby boy born at 12:14 a.m., tipping the scales at 7 pounds, 10 ounces. Despite a due date of December 24, 2024, he decidedly chose to make a tardy but timely entrance into the world as the hospital's first baby of the New Year, according to AM New York.
Back to Brooklyn, another first-of-the-year celebration took place at Maimonides Medical Center where Marie Aserat and Mark Carrasquillo rang in the new year with the birth of their daughter, Malia Carrasquillo, at 3:54 a.m. Malia arrived robust and healthy at 8 pounds, 9 ounces, and stretching out to 21 inches long. The Crown Heights couple's joy was palpable, as they heralded their new beginning along with the fresh annual cycle just beginning to turn.
