Dec. 24, 2005
4:11 a.m.
5 pounds, 13 ounces
Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center
The morning the transit strike ended, Rolling Stone contributing editor Anthony DeCurtis, 54, put on a Creedence Clearwater Revival CD and began “jamming” around his Upper West Side two-bedroom with his 37 1¼2-weeks pregnant wife of four years, Alexandra MacDowell, 36, a director of production management at the A&E television network, and their St. Bernard, Gracie (dance parties are a morning tradition in this household). In the middle of “Born on the Bayou,” Ms. MacDowell’s