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Quintuplets Born to Brooklyn Couple

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<i> Reuters</i>

Quintuplets, three girls and two boys, were born 13 weeks premature to a young Brooklyn couple Saturday night at New York University Medical Center, the hospital said Sunday.

Miriam Schnitzler, 22, delivered the babies at 9:37 p.m. EST Saturday, Steven Rubenstein, a spokesman for the hospital, said Sunday. All are in the neonatal care center at Tisch Hospital, he said.

The mother and father, Chaim Schnitzler, 28, live in a small apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and are both members of the Satmar Hasidic sect, he said.

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They have not yet named their babies, Rubenstein said.

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