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Oh baby! New year welcomes Hudson Valley newborns

Originally published: January 1, 2013 2:22 PM
Updated: January 1, 2013 6:30 PM
By RON BITTNER AND XAVIER MASCARENAS  ronald.bittner@cablevision.com

Ella Chang is born at 12:20 a.m. at

Photo credit: Xavier Mascarenas | Ella Chang is born at 12:20 a.m. at Lawrence Hospital Center in Bronxville to parents Elizabeth Spadaccini and Eric Chang of Bronxville. The girl is the first baby reported to Newsday as having been born in 2013 in Westchester County. (Jan. 1, 2013)

Looks like Baby New Year has plenty of company.

At least 11 new year babies had been born in Rockland County as of Tuesday afternoon, hospital officials said -- 10 of them at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffern.

At least five had arrived in Westchester hospitals as of Tuesday afternoon, News12 reported.

The region's unofficial first baby of the year was Ella Chang, who was delivered...

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