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When Jenna Napolitano was laid off from her job at a fashion label early in the pandemic, she turned to baking her late aunt’s recipes – and now has a bakery to show for it. Lauren Scala reports.

Yellow taxis are going green in New York City. Adam Kuperstein reports.

With the holidays coming, Long Islanders are rushing COVID-19 testing sites. Greg Cergol reports.

With the omicron variant of coronavirus circulating in the city, restaurant owners and staffers are bracing for impact. Rana Novini reports.

Closing arguments have begun in the trial for Jeffrey Epstein confidante Ghislaine Maxwell. Jonathan Dienst reports.

New York City’s next mayor says he may scrap his inauguration on Jan. 1 amid a surge in Omicron cases. Melissa Russo reports.

Jessica Cunnington and Sarah Wallace reporst on the latest in the fight against Omicron.

Long Island is getting hit hard by the latest COVID surge, as it has the highest 7-day positivity rate in the state. NBC New York’s Greg Cergol reports.

Officers shot and killed a man who they said charged at them after they instructed him to drop it. Police said they tried to subdue the man using stun guns after he entered a subway station, but they failed to bring him down. NBC New York’s Gaby Acevedo reports.

The defense has begun making its case in the Ghislaine Maxwell sex abuse trial. Eria Byfield reports.

A 20-year-old Long Island man has been indicted for allegedly taking photos from social media accounts of more than a dozen women when they were in high and middle school, altering them to make them sexually explicit and then posting them on a pornographic website, Nassau County prosecutors said Thursday. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

Mayor de Blasio says the city will hand out more tests, while Mayor-elect Eric Adams is laying out his plan for fighting the virus when he assumes office next year. Melissa Russo and Chris Glorioso report.

Myles Miller sits down with Keechant Sewell, the next NYPD commissioner.

In video you have to see to believe, children slid down a pipe outside their building to escape flames in the East Village. Gaby Acevedo reports.

An off-duty NYPD lieutenant who was shot multiple times in a confrontation with armed robbers in ski masks who cornered him as he left a Queens nightclub early Thursday was hospitalized in critical but “thankfully stable” condition, the police commissioner said at a somber news conference hours after the gunfire. Rana Novini reports.

A Jersey City restaurant was the site of a fatal shooting on Thursday. Pat Battle reports.

The final of three teens arrested in the death of Barnard College student Tessa Majors. Myles Miller reports.

Andrew Siff, Brian Thompson and Lynda Baquero have team coverage of surging COVID-19 cases in the city.

Andrew Siff, Brian Thompson and John Chandler give updates on the fight against the omicron variant of coronavirus in the tri-state area.

A Long Island man is arrested again after authorities accused him of attempting an attack on the Pride March in New York City. Pei-Sze Cheng reports.