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The 98th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is set to get underway Thursday morning in Manhattan as the nation tunes into the premiere Turkey Day event. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade — two years away from its 100th birthday — this year will feature 17 giant character balloons, 22 floats, 15 novelty and heritage inflata...

The balloon of Bluey, the beloved children’s cartoon character, popped during inflation the day before the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

The iconic Old Homestead Steakhouse in the Meatpacking District is offering a “dollop” of cranberry sauce as part of its Thanksgiving offerings. The cost for that small serving? A cool $195.

Bob Menendez asked a judge Wednesday to set aside guilty verdicts that forced his resignation from the U.S. Senate and grant a new bribery trial.

Multiple members of the Trump transition and cabinet picks by the president-elect faced bomb threats and swatting incidents, three senior law enforcement officials tell NBC News. The threats were not credible and no devices or physical threats were found, the officials told NBC News News. Some of the threats came in over social media. None of the t...

On what is expected to be the busiest air travel day of the Thanksgiving holiday period this year, the Federal Aviation Administration warned about a possible ground ground delay at Newark Liberty International Airport. The FAA’s airport status website listed a ground delay program at Newark Airport that into effect at 1 p.m. Wednesday. The F...

Police are searching for the suspects who shot the driver of a Maserati multiple times in an attempted carjacking Wednesday morning in East Harlem, the NYPD said. Police received a 911 call just before 8:30 a.m. about a shooting at a BP gas station near East 129th Street and Park Avenue. When officers arrived, they found a man with multiple…...

The ongoing crisis at Rikers Island continues. A federal judge gets closer to appointing someone to oversee the notorious jail. Melissa Colorado reports. 

Have you ever wondered how the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade began? Join NBC New York’s Jennifer Vázquez on a historical dive of the beloved event and how immigrant communities helped create this tradition.

A Long Island City woman is facing a murder charge for stabbing her 84-year-old mother to death on Long Island Thanksgiving Eve, police said. Suffolk County Police responded to a call Wednesday, shortly after 9 p.m. following a report of a stabbing victim on Carmen Court in Dix Hills, police said. When officers arrived to the scene they allegedly f...

The New York Red Bulls will face Orlando City in the MLS Eastern Conference Final. Here’s how to watch and more.

A number of roads will close starting early Thursday morning and going through the conclusion and clean up of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City. Officials are encouraging parade spectators to use public transportation to get to the event, which will go on rain or shine. Here is a preliminary list from the NYPD: Formation: Ro...

A stowaway bypassed screening measures before being discovered on a flight from New York to Paris amid the Thanksgiving travel rush, authorities said Wednesday.