'We found a baby on the subway - now he's our son'

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'We found a baby on the subway - now he's our son'
Pete, Kevin and Danny in 2001
'We found a baby on the subway - now he's our son'
Danny Stewart saw something on the floor of an NY subway station - soon he would treasure it more than anything.
bbc.com
6:19 AM · Apr 4, 2021

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-56409764

Danny Stewart was rushing to meet his boyfriend for dinner when he ran past something lying on the floor of a New York subway station. Soon he would treasure it more than anything else in the world.

It was around eight o'clock on 28 August 2000, just past the frenzy of the New York rush hour when a subway train rattled down the track into 14th Street station, in the Chelsea district of Manhattan. Danny Stewart, 34, was late for dinner with his partner, Pete Mercurio, 32.

The couple had met three years earlier through a friend in Pete's softball team. Later Danny had moved in with Pete and his flatmate, but on this summer evening he had been back to his sublet apartment in Harlem to pick up the post.

As Danny was hurrying out of the station something caught his eye.

"I noticed on the floor tucked up against the wall, what I thought was a baby doll," he says.

He was puzzled - why would a child leave a doll on the ground? - but he continued up the stairs to the exit.

"I glanced back one more time, and that's when I noticed his legs moved."

He ran back down the stairs and realised that the doll was in fact a baby boy, wrapped in a dark sweatshirt, with his tiny legs sticking out.

"He didn't have any clothes on, he was just wrapped up in this sweatshirt. His umbilical cord was still partially intact, so I could tell he was a newborn. I was thinking maybe a day or so old," he says.

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[hauckeye]

1. Oh my what a wonderful story - tearing up now

[blueinredohio]

2. That is a lucky baby to be found and

found by such nice people. Bless you for taking him in. Nice to hear a good story every now and then.

[Botany]

3. Them gays with their family values

Damn onions and dust in my house.

[Cha]

21. Ooh TY for the pic of

of what he looks like now & the one where he's a little older than when they found him!

Onions are here, too!

[Shrike47]

4. Sweet story. Everything has turned out amazingly well.

[MontanaMama]

5. Wow!

What an amazing story. That is one fortunate child.

[blm]

6. 🥰

[lindysalsagal]

7. Like a fairy tale out of scotland or something. NYC foundling.

Lucky boy.

[UpInArms]

8. That was, and is, a beautiful story

[lucca18]

9. Wow! So beautiful!

So much love.
Thank you to Danny, Pete, Kevin and the Judge!

[Amaryllis]

10. THank you for posting. WHat an extraoridiary and moving story.

[StarryNite]

11. Such a beautiful family.

Some things are just meant to be.

[tblue37]

12. Pete wrote a picture book about their story:

https://www.amazon.com/Our-Subway-Baby-Peter-Mercurio/dp/0525427546

[crickets]

13. What an amazing story. 💖

[Initech]

14. Now this is the kind of story that should be made into a movie!

[MustLoveBeagles]

15. What beautiful story

Thanks for posting.

[jeffreyi]

16. A great story.

A very handsome family, as well!

[Nonhlanhla]

17. The Gay Agenda strikes again...

❤️

[Botany]

19. And as a straight guy I would like to say one thing:

[WhiskeyGrinder]

18. I hope that foster family got the support they appear to have needed.

I'm also interested in why the reporter didn't interview Kevin.

[Tanuki]

20. Beautiful...thanks for posting!

[Skittles]

22. there are people who would not consider this trio a family

but is what they are: a family