<a href="/topics/Long_Island_Jewish_Medical_Center">Long Island Jewish Medical Center</a> welcomed its first baby of the new year at 12:00:01 a.m. Sunday when Nicolette <a href="/topics/James_Hunt">Hunt</a> was born. The baby girl, weighing exactly 7 pounds and measuring 20 inches long, was welcomed by her parents, Eleni, 32, and <a href="/topics/James_Hunt">James Hunt</a>, 29, of <a href="/topics/Little_Neck%2C_NY">Little Neck</a>, Queens. 
 The couple has one other child, a daughter, Victoria, 2. 
 Just three seconds later -- at 12:00:04 a.m. -- <a href="/topics/Nassau_University_Medical_Center">Nassau University Medical Center</a> in <a href="/topics/East_Meadow%2C_NY">East Meadow</a> greeted Danilo Alexander Mojica. He weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces, and measured 20 inches long. 
 His parents are Alicia, 29, and Carlos Mojica, 32, of <a href="/topics/Hicksville%2C_NY">Hicksville</a>, who have one other child, a daughter, Gennesis, 7.

Long Island Jewish Medical Center welcomed its first baby of the new year at 12:00:01 a.m. Sunday when Nicolette Hunt was born. The baby girl, weighing exactly 7 pounds and measuring 20 inches long, was welcomed by her parents, Eleni, 32, and James Hunt, 29, of Little Neck, Queens. The couple has one other child, a daughter, Victoria, 2. Just three seconds later -- at 12:00:04 a.m. -- Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow greeted Danilo Alexander Mojica. He weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces, and measured 20 inches long. His parents are Alicia, 29, and Carlos Mojica, 32, of Hicksville, who have one other child, a daughter, Gennesis, 7.

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