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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.

Traveling this Thanksgiving Day? Here’s where to check the status of flights for every major airline at Newark, JFK Airport and LaGuardia airports.

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.

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 judge said the city had placed incarcerated people in “unconstitutional danger” by failing to comply with 18 separate provisions of court orders pertaining to security, staffing, supervision, use of force and the safety of young detainees.

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.

NBC New York’s Jennifer Vázquez spoke with Rockefeller Center Head Gardener Eric Pauze in 2023 about what he looks for when picking the new Rockefeller Christmas Tree. 

NBC New York has team coverage of the unofficial shopping holiday. 

A fire appears to have sparked at a mansion in Weston after residents tried to fry a turkey in their garage on Thanksgiving, fire officials said. The Weston Volunteer Fire Department said they responded to a home on Weston Road after getting reports of a garage fire just before 3:45 p.m. Firefighters found a mansion up in flames. Efforts to......

The deadline has arrived for all restaurants to take down their outdoor dining sheds. NBC New York’s Brittany Miller reports. 

Former Hartford mayor Thirman Milner, known for becoming the first Black mayor in all of New England, has died at the age of 91, officials confirmed to NBC Connecticut. Milner became the first African-American elected mayor in New England in 1981, serving the city of Hartford until 1987. He also served as a state representative and a state senator....