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A UPS driver is sharing how he became an likely hero after after using his truck to save eight people from the floodwaters caused when Ida slammed the tri-state

A young hero UPS worker saved a bunch of people stranded during the floods in New Jersey last week. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A New Jersey school teacher jumped to action when she saw a vehicle rolling toward a group of children.

A retired flight attendant pushing a beverage cart from Boston to New York City in honor of his colleagues who died on Sept. 11, 2001, has made it to the Bronx. Marc Santia reports.

The vehicle wasn’t in park — and started to roll forward onto a sidewalk where students were standing, officials say. The parent wasn’t anywhere near the car.

The Greenwich coffee shop serves as a training ground for people with disabilities, which serves not only them, but the entire community too. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.

Video from a Bronx subway station shows the heart-pounding moments as a police officer and a Good Samaritan pull an unconscious man from the path of an oncoming subway train.

Police are calling the wild crash a miracle, because somehow no one was hurt after a car launched through the front of a Wendy’s restaurant and landed on a table right next to a family. NBC New York’s Brian Thompson reports.

A vehicle somehow went airborne and slammed into a Wendy’s restaurant not far from where a family was sitting outside eating in New Jersey earlier this week. Wild video from the South Brunswick Police Department captures the exact moment the Toyota Corolla vaulted over a berm, flipping practically vertical and careening into the fast-food joint Monday. It crash-landed on...

A server in Connecticut is still in shock after getting the massive tip from a patron at the South Norwalk restaurant.

Forget a 10, 15 or 20 percent tip — a server at a Connecticut restaurant is still in disbelief after getting a 200 percent tip from a customer.

A New York couple’s honeymoon trip was nearly ruined after the diamond on the engagement ring went missing at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The Transportation Security Administration said Madison Durrani and her husband Amir Khan Durrani of Flushing were flying to Guam last month after their honeymoon was delayed due to the pandemic. The two were checked in...

The backyard for the Cifuni family is usually a calm and relaxing place, but that was interrupted Saturday afternoon when an unexpected visitor showed up at the pool: a baby deer, struggling to swim.

A young mother from New City
has become a local hero after she saved a baby deer from drowning in her swimming pool. NBC New York’s Anjali Hemphill reports.

The hard-to-miss bottle of soap — standing in at 21 feet tall, weighing 2,500 pounds and more than eight feet in diameter — was a dream come true, six years in the making.

The photographer picked a picturesque setting in Brooklyn Bridge Park — a popular place for wedding pictures to be taken, but neither the couple nor the photographer could have guessed who would show up

A couple taking wedding photos in Brooklyn noticed Jeff Goldblum working on a set and he walked over to serenade the happy couple. NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

The San Diego Padres gave 15-year-old Landis Sims an honorary contract with the team. The rising baseball star, who was born limb deficient, wowed Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove with a game of catch on the Petco Park field on Sunday.

Then-Yankees general manager Roy Hamey wrote Gwen Goldman a letter on June 23, 1961, in which he denied her request to be a ball girl, saying: “I am sure you can understand that it is a game dominated by men a young lady such as yourself would feel out of place in a dugout.”

When she was 10 years old, Gwen Goldman wrote to the Yankees to ask if she could serve as a bat girl, but the team’s GM rejected the request, saying “a young lady such as yourself would feel out of place in a dugout.” Sixty years later, she’s finally getting her chance. NBC New York’s Bruce Beck reports.