Woman gives birth to boy in Holland Tunnel
Photo credit: Port Authority/ Mike Dombrowski | Abdel Elkarhat shows off his newborn son, Nassim, as Port Authority Tunnel and Bridge Agents George McCann (left) and Jean Bernard look on. The baby was delivered in the Holland Tunnel. (Dec.26, 2012)
A New Jersey woman rushing to a Brooklyn hospital Wednesday morning gave birth to a boy in the Holland Tunnel, a Port Authority spokesman said.
The mother and father, Soukaina Nekhlaoui and Abdel Elkarhat, from Lodi, were driving to Brooklyn shortly before 7 a.m. when the woman began to give birth inside the tunnel, said Steve Coleman, spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
"I...