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A baby girl was found at the rear of a housing complex in Queens late Sunday night.
Police are searching for the parents of a newborn baby girl found behind a building project in New York City.
According to The Associated Press, a passerby heard a baby crying at about 11:40 p.m. Sunday near the Woodside Houses, a city housing complex in Queens, and called police.
According to the New York Post, the infant was only one or two days old.
"I heard a baby crying and somebody yelling 'there’s a baby behind the building,'" Essence Shepherd told the Post.
Discovered in a grassy area, the baby was wrapped in bath towels and sheets. She appeared to be in good health, the AP reported. Authorities took her to Elmhurst Hospital.
A hospital spokesperson told NBC News the baby weighs about 6 pounds and is healthy. The hospital will hold her for about 72 hours, and then release her in the care of the city's Administration for Children's Services.
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Residents were shocked at the news.
"That is very cruel," Audra Adams, a resident at the building project for the last 40 years, told the AP. "You couldn't knock on somebody's door or take the baby to a hospital or something? This was your only recourse? I hope they find her."
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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