
2021
COURIER L 22 IFE, JANUARY 8-14, 2021
Assemblywoman Rodneyse Bichotte and her new husband, Edu Hermelyn.
Eduardo Acevedo Jr. of Eddi Cruz Photography, LLC
Bichotte marries
longtime beau
City’s fi rst baby of 2021
born at Coney hospital
BY ROBERT POZARYCKI
New York City’s fi rst baby of 2021
arrived at the stroke of midnight Friday
in Coney Island.
Little Jaxel Rodriguez came into
the world at 12 am on New Years Day,
2021 at NYC Health + Hospitals/Coney
Island.
The boy, weighing 6 pounds, 11
ounces and measuring 19 inches in
length, is the third child of parents
Ivett Rodriguez and Antonio Guilbert
of Brooklyn.
According to NYC Health + Hospitals,
the family says Jaxel is “the best
gift of the new year.”
Ivett Rodriguez holds her newborn son,
Jaxel, the fi rst baby born in 2021 in New
York City. NYC Health + Hospitals
BY BROOKLYN PAPER
Brooklyn Democratic Party Boss
Rodneyse Bichotte married her longtime
partner, Edu Hermelyn, at an intimate
ceremony on New Years Day
— a day which also marks Haitian Independence
Day, said Bichotte.
“We wanted to bring in our union
on this day as it signifi es the strength
of the slave abolitionist winning
against the French making Haiti the
fi rst Black independent country,” she
said. “It symbolizes the fl ag that shows
that with unity there is strength.”
The couple both hold elected offi
ce in Brooklyn, with Bichotte serving
as Democratic county leader and
an assemblywoman in Flatbush,
while Hermelyn serves as Democratic
district leader representing Crown
Heights and Prospect Lefferts Gardens
in the 43rd Assembly District.