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Fire at Gravesend public housing complex kills one man More than 60 fi refi ghters responded to the fi re on Jan. 4. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell �� COURIER L 36 IFE, JANUARY 10-16, 2020 Jennet and Artyom Zobnin with baby Aidan. Photo courtesy of NYC Health + Hospital BY COLIN MIXSON This baby’s on the ball! New York’s City’s fi rst baby of the new decade was born in Coney Island Hospital at the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1! Newborn Aidan Zobnin was born weighing seven pounds, 13 ounces at exactly 12 am. He is the second child of parents Jennet and Artyom Zobnin. Zobnin was delivered at NYC Health + Hospitals Coney Island, located in Sheesphead Bay, and is the fi rst of some 16,000 babies that will be born this year via the city’s public health system. The Coney Island newborn was followed a few hours later by baby Khadra Hassan, who greeted the world at NYU Langone Hospital in Sunset Park at 3:48 am. The infant girl was born weighing seven pounds, four ounces, and is the fi rst child of mother Mawada and Mohammed Hassan. BY ROSE ADAMS A blaze that swept the fi fth fl oor at a Gravesend public housing complex killed a 63- year-old man on Saturday morning. The fi re broke out on the fi fth fl oor of Marlboro Houses on W. Eighth Street between 86th Street and Avenue X a little before 1:47 pm, authorities report. Firefi ghters representing 12 units rushed to the scene, where they saw fl ames whipping out of a fi fth fl oor apartment, witnesses said. First responders rushed into the unit, 5H, where they found a man lying unconscious in his bedroom amid dense smoke, according to a fi refi ghter on the scene. “It was so hot inside that apartment the smoke detectors were hanging off the wall,” said one responder. “It was lights out in terms of visibility.” The victim had entered his bedroom to put out the fi re, and had passed out because of the smoke, the Daily News reported. First responders performed CPR on the victim and transported him to Coney Island Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, offi - cials say. Two fi refi ghters and one emergency responder suffered minor injuries. Responders quelled the fi re at around 2:20 pm, authorities said. The cause of the fi re is still under investigation, and police are withholding the victim’s name until his family was notifi ed. Coney Island Hospital welcomes city’s fi rst baby of the decade! ��