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The MTA is all set to go ahead with congestion pricing starting at 30 seconds past midnight on Sunday, Jan. 5, 2025 — and officials want to remind people about the toll. The reduced peak toll will be $9, it was originally supposed to be $15, but, drivers who don’t use EZPass to pay it will face a higher toll…

A 30-year-old subway rider was stabbed in the chest and left arm as he sat on a train in Brooklyn late Tuesday, authorities say. The man was on a northbound Q train near Seventh Avenue and Park Place in Prospect Heights when he was attacked just after 11 p.m. He was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive….

A day after a holiday market in the heart of Manhattan went up in flames, fire officials have determined what sparked the blaze that torched booths and sent merchandise up in smoke.

Tuesday afternoon temperatures in the upper 50s around New York City – even 60 degrees in a few lucky places – will soon be replaced by an arctic chill. In fact, we’ll see some of the coldest temperatures of 2024 early next week. But afternoon temperatures won’t fall off a cliff. Rather, they’ll stairstep down each day until we bottom......

A historic (or perhaps more accurately, prehistoric) discovery was made just under the surface of a New York homeowner’s lawn.

Workers will be able to see that raise in their checks starting Jan. 1, 2025.

The 26-year-old Ivy League grad charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on a Manhattan sidewalk this month has been indicted by a grand jury in the case, the district attorney’s office announced Tuesday. Luigi Mangione stands accused of first-degree murder, in furtherance of terrorism; second-degree murder, one count of whi...

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old Ivy League grad arrested last week in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is receiving mail while in jail in Pennsylvania awaiting an extradition hearing. The Pennsylvania Department of Corrections said Mangione has received 33 emails and six pieces of mail while in custody. When asked by NBC News if M...

A group of mostly masked people raided $10,000 worth of Nike and North Face gear from a New Jersey Dick’s Sporting Goods store before driving off, Mount Laurel police said.

For years, women had been disappearing on Long Island. Then in 2010, investigators searching for a missing woman began finding 10 sets of human remains in the scrub along a barrier island parkway, not far from the sands of New York’s remote Gilgo Beach. Police almost immediately feared some were left by a serial killer. Over the years, invest...

An overnight water main break in the Bronx caused serious property damage to cars, businesses and ground-level apartments — and authorities warn it could take days to clear up. No one was hurt when the 48-inch main on Webster Avenue, from Bedford Park Boulevard to Mosholu Parkway, ruptured Monday night, but it took until 5 a.m. Tuesday, about...

The New York City architect arrested last year in connection with a string of cold case bodies found on Long Island’s Gilgo Beach has been charged with another woman’s murder, bringing the body count against him thus far to seven, according to a superseding indictment unsealed Tuesday. Rex Heuermann is accused of murdering Valerie Mack,...

The end to New York City’s drought could be coming to an end soon, if the current conditions continue in the coming weeks

What happens to the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree after it is taken down? It turns out that its mission to spread joy and cheer goes far beyond the holiday season. NBC New York’s Jennifer Vázquez reports.