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Bridge babies: 5 falcon chicks hatch on Verrazano

Talk about being highborn.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says three peregrine falcon chicks have hatched in a nestatop one of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge's 693-foot-tall tower this spring. Another falcon chick hasbeen born on a 360-foot tower at the Throgs Neck Bridge and a fifth in a turret on the MarineParkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge between Brooklyn and the Rockaways.

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