Police say they found an infant girl abandoned in a Brooklyn apartment building just after midnight earlier today. The baby, believed to be about six months old, was found in front of a seventh-floor apartment at W. 33rd Street building in the O'Dwyer Houses; near her were a broken cell phone and a mini Vodka bottle. “She was cute. She was dressed in pink. She didn't even have shoes on, just socks," Angel Cruz told the News. more ›

The boyfriend of a woman whose one-year-old was found dead this week has been arrested and charged with his murder. On Wednesday, baby Richard Fludd was discovered unresponsive in the living room floor of a third-floor apartment where he lived on East 232nd Street. Reginald Smith, 24, now faces charges of murder and assault after the Medical Examiner determined the cause of death to be homicide. more ›

Police are investigating the death of a one-year-old boy who was found unconscious in his Bronx home yesterday. Baby Richard Flood was discovered unresponsive by his mother’s boyfriend in the living room floor of a third-floor apartment where he lived on East 232nd Street at 11:25 a.m. Wednesday. Sources told NBC that the boy had a cast on his leg from a broken leg, bruises on his face, and cigarette burns on his arms. more ›

Blue Ivy Carter has left the building. Specifically, baby Blue has departed her private digs at Lenox Hill Hospital to go live with her parents, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, in Tribeca. The little diva, less than a week old, left the hospital in a luxury Mercedes van. So, now what? more ›

FINALLY, the papers are paying attention to the birth of the Most Important Baby Of All Time, or at least since baby Thom Yorke arrived in 1968: Blue Ivy Carter. There's a lot of ink spilled out there today regarding Beyoncé and Jay-Z's three-day old girl, who has already made her musical debut crying on Jay-Z's song to her, which you can listen to below. And now the happy couple has released a statement, presumably from their private birthing center, Lenox Hill Hospital: more ›

This weekend rumors were swirling that Beyoncé had checked in to Lenox Hill Hospital on Friday night, under the name "Ingrid Jackson," with husband Jay-Z by her side. And alas, it turns out the power couple was there for B's planned c-section, which took place sometime last night. So finally, after months of fake bump rumors, the couple has welcomed a baby girl into the world—the same world she will likely take over one day. E! News reports that her name is Blue Ivy Carter, or at least "that's what Jay-Z is telling pals." more ›

The 2012 baby derby seems to be won by a couple who delivered a 7-pound, 3-ounce, 18.5-inch baby girl at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx. The hospital says Rania Ali was born at the stroke of midnight. Also, she is VERY ADORABLE (see picture). But Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn says 5-pound, 8-ounce Emma Sieminska was also the first baby of the New Year (and Emma's pretty cute too)! more ›

Beyoncé's pregnancy has been weird and mysterious from the start. She announced that her and husband Jay-Z would be having a baby in August, while on stage at the MTV Video Music Awards. The next month, she stated: "It's September 23rd. Right now I’m actually shooting the video for 'Countdown' and I’m six months pregnant!" After that, a television appearance showed her bump collapsing before the world's eyes, which led to rumors that she had a surrogate, possibly to stay in shape for an upcoming tour. And yesterday, rumors spread far and wide that she—or someone?—delivered her baby, named Tiana May Carter, at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. more ›

A three-month-old baby died after being dropped from what the police say was a "fairly high level" onto a bed in a Bronx apartment, and now her father is under arrest. more ›

Aha! Former Congressman Anthony Weiner, whose political career was torpedoed by some terrible sexting (crotch shots, depressingly intimate chats, terrible self-portraits) is not totally off the grid when it comes to his new son's birth. According to the Post, Weiner sent a message via Blackberry—"Subject: Jordan Zain Weiner"—stated the short but sweet text. “7lbs 5.8 oz of sparkling wonder; Did I mention his mom is amazing?; We love you for welcoming him." more ›

A 6-month-old boy was found dead in his crib by his mother early this morning, and police have yet to determine a cause of death. An EMS worker alerted police that baby Stephon Jenkins had bruises and scratches on his body. Mother Tina Brice, 20, says she went to check on him around 5:40 p.m. inside their first-floor Fulton St. apartment in Brownsville: “I put him to sleep, I checked on him two to three times,” the single mom told the Daily News. “When I checked again there was white and brown stuff in his mouth.” more ›

A 46-year-old babysitter with a long history of working with an Upper East Side family was arrested today after a mysterious odyssey that lead the baby's panicked parents to call the cops when the child wasn't home on time. more ›

Members of the family who were trapped in a Brooklyn row house fire on Thanksgiving are in critical condition in NYC hospitals. According to the Post, 8-month-old Josiah Alexis, his mother Justine Alexis, uncle Jonathan Alexis and his aunt's husband George DeJesus are all at New York Presbyterian Cornell Weill Medical Center with ventilators; the baby's aunt, Jasmine Alexis (twin sister to Justine, wife of DeJesus) is at Jacobi Medical Center. This news comes as fire official described how the fire, started by someone smoking in bed, spread across the President Street home in Park Slope. more ›

A fast-moving fire at a Park Slope row house on left five people were injured, including an 8-month-old baby boy and a man who were in cardiac arrest by the time firefighters reached them. Fire department officials say the blaze, which occurred in a three-story walk-up on President Street between 4th and 5th Avenues, was caused by a smoking in bed. more ›

Beyoncé's bump is real, and it's fabulous, and there's an actual baby in there, which she's now revealed is... a girl! Or rather, "an insider" revealed the big news for her, to In Touch magazine. more ›

A six-month-old baby died yesterday after receiving accidental overdose of antibiotics at a Brooklyn hospital yesterday. "We love this baby. Oh, my God. It's just so messed up. His life was over in a second. I just can't believe it," cousin and caretaker Jhora Akther told the News. more ›

Law & Order: SVU hasn't really been the same Christopher Meloni peaced out and Mariska Hargitay cut back her hours, but we can't begrudge Hargitay too much: the actress just announced that she's a new mom (again!). more ›

A fourth-year nursing student in Brooklyn got one heck of a pop quiz yesterday, helping deliver a healthy baby girl in the back of a Nissan on Flatbush Avenue. The special delivery came around 9:45 a.m. as 24-year-old Crystal Cardona was trying to get to the hospital with her fiancé. Before they could go, though, the little girl inside Cardona apparently decided she was ready to come out right now. Luckily, the woman's neighbor noticed the commotion outside in the nick of time: Aionga Pereira, a nursing student at Long Island University College, grabbed a clean towel from her apartment and ran outside. "She was having a baby in the backseat of a car," Pereira recalled. "I’m really just happy that I did OB (obstetrics) last semester," she later joked to the Post. "But that didn’t take the nervousness away." more ›

Hurricane Irene has come and gone, so now it's time to focus on more pressing matters: Beyonce is pregnant, with husband Jay-Z's baby! The long-rumored pregnancy was confirmed last night at the MTV Video Music Awards, when Queen Bee showed up in a vibrant red Lanvin muummuu, clutching her belly on the welcome carpet. MTV tweeted "OMG Beyonce just made a huge announcement on the #vma carpet! #baby!!!!!", and her reps confirmed the happy news shortly thereafter. more ›

A kidnapping drama unfolded on Long Island earlier this weekend when Gloria Suarez, a housekeeper, who was so upset with being fired that kidnapped the baby of her employer. Suarez was fired on Monday by Rabbi Yitzchok Hayempour, and then, on Wednesday, allegedly tried to take his five-month-old daughter, Esther, and go to Uruguay. When police caught up with her, she said the Hayempours, who have 11 children, have "so many children that they just don't have time for [the baby]." more ›

An abandoned newborn girl was found in a shoebox outside an Astoria building this morning. A next-door neighbor spotted the baby, along with a white and red rose, on the stoop of a home on 28th Street, near Ditmars Boulevard. "[She] saw all the toys in the yard, and decided to leave her with the family with the babies," speculated resident Stephen Katehis. more ›

A Bronx man was arrested yesterday after he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend and then held a knife to his baby's neck. Russel Rivera Jr. was in a heated stand-off with police around 3:15 p.m. on Tuesday: "He had the baby in his arms and a big knife, a butcher's knife. The baby was crying. It was pouring. The baby had no clothes on, just Pampers," witness Edna Rivera told the News. more ›

A Long Island woman was arrested for leaving her 14-month-old daughter while she was shopping at the Big H shopping center in Huntington. Aimee Rachlin's 2011 black Mercedes was "parked directly in the blistering sunlight, with the engine turned off" while the windows were "barely cracked." Other shoppers noticed the baby and called 911; when cops got to the scene, they found the child "sweating profusely." more ›

Children of New York City, it's important you learn to be patient, because sometimes Mommy has important errands to run and she needs you to SIT QUIETLY in your stroller and not cry as you roll out of the subway car during her fistfight. This was the life-lesson taught to one youngster earlier this week when two women got into fisticuffs on the L train. Watch as the child rolls right out of the train as her mother attends to a matter of vital bitchslapping: more ›

The union of two real estate dynasties grew yesterday, with the birth of a baby girl to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. Trump Tweeted yesterday, "This morning @jaredkushner and I welcomed a beautiful and healthy little baby girl into the world. We feel incredibly grateful and blessed. Thank you all for your support and well wishes!" The child's name is Arabella Rose, if The Donald's bragging can be trusted. more ›

Have you been wondering what to get that little girl who has graduated from her baby bikini or (faux) high heels? And maybe she's just too young—like maybe she's 6— for a padded bra or virgin bikini wax? Well, don't sweat: The makers of the Breast Milk Baby Doll are committed to making sure as many people as possible can buy their doll, which offers kids the experience of breastfeeding with the help of a doll and a "special flowered halter top which activates the dolls suckling mechanism." more ›

The baby found in a Brooklyn garbage chute on Saturday night may have been there for as long as twelve hours, according to a Brooklyn Hospital doctor who examined him. That depressing news comes as the infant's mother, 18-year-old Laquasia Wright, was ordered held on $100,000 bail on attempted murder charges for allegedly dropping the newborn eight-stories down a trash chute. more ›

Police have taken an 18-year-old woman into custody after she allegedly put her newborn baby in a plastic bag and dropped it eight stories down a trash chute in her Brooklyn building. Laquasia Wright, who lives on the eighth floor of the building in the Walt Whitman housing project, reportedly threw her newborn out with the trash after delivering him in her apartment. Thankfully, the baby is reportedly in stable condition in Brooklyn Hospital. more ›

A newborn baby was recovered unharmed yesterday after being thrown down a trash chute in a Brooklyn housing project. The baby boy was discovered yesterday morning after a super heard him crying from inside the compactor chute. The baby was quickly fished out and taken to a nearby hospital where he appears to be ok. more ›