Baby born in Newark apartment building hallway

NEWARK

A baby boy was delivered in the hallway of an apartment building in /*Newark*/, with help from a police officer and the stranger who flagged down the cop.

The baby entered the world earlier than anyone expected, and with a police escort.

The boy's mother ran out of her basement apartment on Mount Pleasant Avenue and into the hallway after she went into labor.

Police got a call of a woman needing help when Officer Vernon Bradbury from the Second Precinct arrived. He ran into the building, along with a stranger from the street. That Good Samaritan and Bradbury helped successfully deliver the baby in the hallway.

Mother and child were taken to /*University Hospital*/, where both are said to be doing well.

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