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A newborn took her first breaths in Manhattan thanks to a team of emergency responders who delivered the child in a car at the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel on Monday, authorities said.
The baby’s 32-year-old mother was in the backseat of an Uber car with her own mother inside the tunnel when her daughter decided to debut around 5:15 p.m., authorities said.
The driver frantically waved down a Port Authority cop after stopping in the middle of the street near W. 40 St. and Dyer Ave., a PA spokesman said. Port Authority cops and FDNY EMTS delivered the healthy baby in just minutes.
EMTs Christopher Maldona and Matthew Herzog arrived with FDNY Lt. Rezaur Rahman, according to the FDNY.
“The EMTs get there. They start seeing the baby’s head is crowning. We had to deliver the baby right there,” Rahman said. “It was a very difficult technical job in the back of a vehicle.”
Stephen Corrigan, helped two PAPD officers, Michael Principe andd give the mother oxygen as the EMTs delivered the little girl, the PAPD spokesman said.
Tunnel and Bridge Senior Agent Greg Nimmo also helped the EMTs with the delivery, the spokesman said.
The healthy baby was born in just minutes.
“The best was seeing the baby.She started breathing right away and crying. That was a very joyous moment. Everyone was high-fiving,” said FDNY Lt. Rezaur Rahman. The mother, who had been on her way to the hospital from Hoboken, and her newborn daughter were treated by paramedics Lee Castro and Amanda Henry at the scene and were resting comfortably at Mt. Sinai Roosevelt Hospital late Monday.
“It’s great to see a life born… We see people in their last moments all the time,” Rahman said. “But this is the beginning.”
