In December of 2018, a baby girl was born in a minivan parked on the side of the Long Island Expressway.
Her parents, Maria and Ivan Albarracin of Queens, had been trying to reach Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan. When they realized they wouldn’t make it, they pulled over (near the entrance of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel) and Maria gave birth to a 9-pound baby girl.
They’d been planning to name her Aurora, but her roadside arrival inspired them to instead choose the name Alie — a nod to the Long Island Expressway, which is often referred to by the acronym “L.I.E.”
Sources:
- “Baby Named After Where She Was Born: The Long Island Expressway.” Queens Daily Eagle 27 Dec. 2018.
- Moore, Tina, Kevin Sheehan, and Danielle Furfaro. “Baby girl named after the highway she was born on.” New York Post 26 Dec. 2018.
- Interstate 495 (New York) – Wikipedia
Image: Adapted from View east along Interstate 495 by Famartin under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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