There was some magic in the air in Times Square.
Last December, Ana Cecy Malacara visited New York City for the first time and shared with The Post at the New Year’s Eve Wishing Wall her secret wish for 2024.
Two weeks later she returned to her native Mexico. “After I was back, I was feeling strange,” she recalled.
“I told my husband I need to get checked because I was having a lot of nausea. We thought it was a cold.”
In fact, her dream written on a piece of Times Square confetti had come true — Ana was pregnant.
Malacara visited the Wishing Wall in Dec. 2023 and wrote her dream for a new baby on a piece of confetti. Helayne Seidman
Grecia, whose name means Grace in English, was born on Aug. 15.
“We were trying for three or four months and we couldn’t conceive yet,” said Ana, 29, who shares another daughter, 3 year-old Lucia, with her now-husband, Victor Serrano, 31, who proposed to her during the NYC trip.
“It’s a powerful thing that confetti.”
This year, on New Year’s Eve, another 3,000 pounds of confetti will be tossed from the rooftops of Times Square after the ball drops at midnight.
The fluttering spectacle of 25 million pieces of shredded paper will be broadcast on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.” Ana says her family will be watching, as always.
The Wishing Wall, located on Broadway between 46th and 47th Streets, opened on Dec. 2. The Times Square Alliance, which runs it, said it has already collected 100,000 wishes. Last year, 150 countries were represented.
Ana, a General Motors engineer, says she will be back one day.
“My husband and I fell in love with New York, and my daughter, Lucia, she keeps telling me, ‘I want to go to New York.’”
Malacara visited the Wishing Wall in Dec. 2023 and wrote her dream for a new baby on a piece of confetti. Helayne Seidman
Grecia Serrano was born on Aug. 15, 2024. Courtesy of Ana Cecy Malacara
The couple, pictured here with their daughters Lucia, 3, and Grecia, 4 months, got married on Dec. 21. Courtesy of Ana Cecy Malacara
