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Investigators are looking into the circumstances behind the death of a Brooklyn woman who was found dead with injuries to her neck inside her own home.

A man using a FedEx shirt as a disguise to get into an apartment building to steal packages got a surprise when the real delivery driver faced him outside on a Manhattan sidewalk, police said. The NYPD released surveillance video Friday of a daring robbery in Washington Heights on May 9. Police said the alleged package thief, disguised as a…...

A New York man pleaded guilty to swindling people out of more that $1 million in a scheme that referenced the “Seinfeld” character George Costanza.

A witness at Sen. Bob Menendez’s bribery trial says the cost of certifying that meat sent to Egypt follows Islamic dietary requirements skyrocketed after a single U.S. company was given a monopoly in a cozy deal prosecutors say Menendez arranged. James Bret Tate is a U.S. diplomat who was based in Cairo for several years. He explained to a Ma...

Three firefighters were hurt, two of whom suffered serious injuries, while battling flames at a house fire in the Bronx Friday afternoon, according to the FDNY. The blaze broke out around 3 p.m. at a home on White Plains Road in the Clason Point neighborhood, the fire department said at a press conference. A man who lived at the home…

Police in Darien have opened an investigation into a reported burglary at a jewelry store on Post Road. On Wednesday morning around 4:30 a.m., police say four suspects wearing masks and gloves broke into David Harvey Jewelers on Route 1. Released surveillance video shows the glass of the front door being broken and people entering the store: Darien...

A track coach from William J. Johnston Middle School in Colchester has stepped down after being accused of calling a Black female student from Middletown a racial slur. Colchester Public Schools told NBC Connecticut in a statement that students were singing an explicit song named “Faneto” by Chief Keef to which the coach ...

New York’s first-in-the-nation plan to levy a hefty toll on drivers entering much of traffic-choked Manhattan was the focus of a legal battle that played out in federal court Friday. A Manhattan judge heard arguments in a series of lawsuits from unionized public school teachers, local Republican officials and other New Yorkers seeking to put the br...

Two men robbed a sleeping subway passenger of his phone and other items on an F train by cutting his pants pocket earlier this month in Kew Gardens, police said. Police said one of the men cut a pocket on the sleeping man’s pants and stole his phone, wallet and vape. It happened on May 7 around 3:30 a.m. on…

A Long Island man was arrested this week in connection with a burglary spree that allegedly saw him target seven luxury homes on the North Shore in 2021. Prosecutors say he made off with valuables in three of the cases. Vincent Dougherty was taken into custody Tuesday, prosecutors said Friday. The 64-year-old was later arraigned on charges includin...

NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

An NYPD patrol vehicle responding to a 911 call struck and killed a man walking on the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, according to police

The body of a 35-year-old man was pulled from the World’s Fair Marina in Flushing Bay Saturday afternoon, and the cause of death was not immediately clear. NBC New York’s Melissa Colorado reports.