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For the first time in more than a decade, the annual Macy’s 4th of July Fireworks spectacle will be held on the Hudson River — giving New Jerseyans a front-row seat to the fireworks extravaganza that lights up the iconic New York City skyline. Organizers for the event made the announcement Tuesday calling it a “one-of-a-kind”...

A small airplane was forced to make an emergency landing on a Long Island beach after the pilot reported engine failure, according to officials.

Biggest longshot to ever win? Most successful starting gate? Best finish for a female jockey? Here are the answers to all of those Kentucky Derby questions and more.

A Manhattan woman who fantasized about murdering someone — and then killed her 70-year-old neighbor — in a 2018 bloodbath has been sentenced to 20 years to life in state prison, prosecutors announced Thursday. Anya Johnston, 29, was convicted in March of murder in the second degree in the Oct. 21, 2018 death of Susan Trott, whose neck w...

A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty after he sold exotic animal parts, including a mounted cougar head, to an undercover officer, according to the district attorney’s office.

Police are looking for a driver with Florida plates they say ran over the hand of a 59-year-old pedestrian after repeatedly punching him following an argument last week, authorities say. It was early in the morning on April 24, around 8:10 a.m. The NYPD says the victim was walking near Leonard and Richardson streets in Greenpoint when he got into&#...

The Philadelphia native is urging Sixers ticket holders not to sell their Game 6 tickets to Knicks fans in an attempt to prevent another massive New York showing at Wells Fargo Center on Thursday.

 The people of Newark paid their respects to the late New Jersey Congressman, Donald Payne, while he was lying in the state at the Essex county court house . NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports. 

Jennifer Lopez, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth and Zendaya will join Anna Wintour as co-chairs of this year’s Met Gala. Vogue and the Metropolitan Museum of Art made the announcement Thursday. This year’s Met Gala is on May 6. And the dress code? “The Garden of Time,” whatever that means in the imaginations of the star-studded crowd. The dress co...

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyer says the onetime movie mogul has been hospitalized for a battery of tests after his return to New York City following an appeals court ruling nullifying his 2020 rape conviction. Attorney Arthur Aidala said Weinstein was moved to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan after his arrival on Friday to city jails. On Thursday, t...

Police investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy who was found buried in a Stamford park last year have elevated charges filed against his father. The investigation started on Jan. 2, 2023, when Stamford police received a report of a possible kidnapping and a child who might have been injured. Authorities learned the child might have been buried ...

As the two-week standoff between pro-Palestinian protesters and college administrators at Columbia University in New York came to a head Tuesday, officials anxiously monitored whether the fallout would spark more protests on college campuses around the country or quell what has been a growing movement. It was the former. Here’s a ti...