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A white-collar criminal appears to be having a laugh about his 7.5 years prison sentence, and he’s letting everyone know about it on LinkedIn. Ryan Salame, who helped expose FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried of stealing more than $8 billion in customer money that was supposed to be safely stored in the cryptocurrency exchange, on Thursday updated his...

Monday, Oct. 14, marks the federal holiday of Columbus Day, a holiday that many states and cities now recognize as Indigenous Peoples Day and Italian Heritage Day. New York City has recognized the day as Italian Heritage Day and Indigenous Peoples’ Day since 2021 — much to the chagrin of a small group of City Council members who make up&#8230...

Hurricane Milton wrecked Central Florida after making its landfall on Wednesday as a powerful Category 3. On Thursday, as the storm moved into the Atlantic Ocean, Floridians and organizations across the tri-state area switched into relief mode. As part of the efforts ahead of landfall, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday that 65 state...

The iconic Rink at Rockefeller Center reopens for the 2024-25 fall and winter season on Saturday. The iconic skating rink, which first opened in 1936 and became a permanent fixture of midtown Manhattan’s holiday season in 1939, will be open daily starting at 9 a.m. when it returns Oct.12. Last skate is at 11 p.m. Admission prices range from $...

Five people were injured after an NJ Transit train struck a truck in Burlington, New Jersey, early Friday morning.

The family of 6-year-old Jathan Escobar is calling for justice after he was brutally beaten with a baseball bat in Bridgeport last month and died days later. They gathered outside a Bridgeport courthouse Thursday morning all wearing matching sweaters honoring the life taken too soon.  They were there for the court appearance of Abdulrahim Sula...

Minnesota Lynx star Napheesa Collier scored the game-winning shot in overtime to steal Game 1 of the WNBA Finals at the New York Liberty Thursday.

The League Championship series in the MLB playoffs will soon begin, with four teams battling to secure a spot in the World Series.

Coldplay has extended their 2025 U.S. tour. Here’s what you need to know.

If you missed Thursday night’s astronomical phenomenon, you may be wondering if Friday brings another chance to see those northern lights. You would have to go much further upstate, or even into Canada, to try to glimpse the aurora borealis this time around. Take a look at the differences in the maps. Thursday’s phenomenon was caused by...

Police are hoping that new composite images will help solve a nearly 30-year-old mystery concerning a man found dead in a Harlem building.

NBC New York has everything you could ask for during the Halloween season — like the folklore lurking in the woods of New Jersey or the true-crime trolley rolling through Brooklyn. Check out “Haunts and Happenings: A Tri-State Adventure” — a one-of-a-kind Halloween special!

The northern lights lit up the tri-state Thursday night and they were even visible in Manhattan! So exactly what are the lights, and can we expect a repeat performance Friday night? NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.