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A Seaford church pre-school program is set to close after 60 years due to a shrinking church population, and parents have been left scrambling to find a new place for their children. NBC News 4 New York’s Greg Cergol reports. 

What’s the hold-up with legal cannabis consumption lounges in New Jersey? Some dispensary owners are growing frustrated because they invested big bucks to build lounges, but can’t yet open because the state’s regulatory process for applications has been very slow. NBC New York’s Ted Greenberg reports. 

A group of women from all walks of life are coming together to combat domestic violence in New York City. What they do is needed now more than ever. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports. 

The federal government’s deadline to pull the plug on congestion pricing was extended by 30 days. NBC New York’s Pat Battle gauged reactions from New Jersey residents and drivers. NBC New York’s Pat Battle reports. 

Hundreds of New Yorkers stood in long lines on Friday to get a crack at an expensive item: eggs. Thousands of the breakfast staple were handed out to crowds that waited in long lines in Harlem, Brooklyn and Queens. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

Two bridges in New Jersey are among dozens the NTSB wants to review to make sure they’d hold up to a collision by a ship. The agency wants testing done following the Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore. The NTSB says Maryland authorities failed to do a risk assessment on that bridge before the catastrophe, and the supports on one of...

Columbia University is conceding to the Trump administration’s demands to step up efforts to crackdown on anti-Israel protests on campus and reform its admissions process in order to hold onto millions of dollars in federal funding. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

In Westchester County, the Department of Environmental Protection is sending out a warning about rising salt levels in the fresh water supply that is connected to road treatments in cold weather. High salinity levels can lead to high blood pressure as well as impact the local ecosystem. NBC New York’s Lynda Baquero reports.

The Trump administration initially wanted to shut off congestion pricing cameras on Friday, but the deadline was extended 30 days. To celebrate, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul took a victory ride on an MTA bus. It comes as NBC New York learned that in the second month of the tolling plan, congestion pricing is so far on track to meet...

Columbia University agreed to implement a suite of policy changes, including overhauling its rules for protests and conducting an immediate review of its Middle Eastern studies department.