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Nearly 15,000 nurses at major New York City hospitals walked off the job, demanding minimum staffing ratios, higher pay, and safer working conditions at institutions including NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia, Montefiore, and Mount Sinai, potentially marking one of the city’s biggest health-care labor battles in years.
Thousands of nurses at hospitals in NYC and Long Island have issued a 10-day strike notice due to unresolved contract disputes over healthcare benefits and staffing standards, potentially leading to the largest nurse strike in NYC history if no agreement is reached.
A baby girl was born at Harlem Hospital in New York City exactly at midnight on January 1, 2026, becoming the city's first baby of the year, marking a new start for the Harlem couple Oumy and Amadou Niang, and breaking Brooklyn's recent streak of first births.