Just minutes after the ball dropped, the stork delivered one of the Island's first babies of 2009 in Port Jefferson.
Anthony Joseph Dougherty was born at 12:03 a.m. at St. Charles Hospital.
?He was actually due on the seventh of January, but he decided he wanted to come a little earlier,? says mother Stephanie Dougherty.
Little Anthony, weighing in at 7 pounds, 7 ounces, joins older sister Deanna and big brother Thomas.