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A Queens couple’s apartment window was shattered by a one-foot long metal pipe as the pair were working from home — but they live on the 9th floor and it’s a scary mystery as to how the projectile got there. “If this was coming at you like a bullet, it would take your head off,” said Jessica Green, holding...

A Queens couple’s apartment window was shattered by a one-foot long metal pipe as the pair were working from home — but they live on the 9th floor and it’s a scary mystery as to how the projectile got there. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

A fresh-cut natural Christmas tree usually graces the Grand Arcade at Convention Hall on Asbury Park’s historic boardwalk. But this year, in its place is art made of cardboard in the shape of a tree.

It has been called beautiful, awesome and brilliant, a transcendent work of art that reimagines the holiday experience with local touches of the Jersey Shore — and also has been called ridiculous, ugly and hideous, something akin to a pile of Amazon shipping boxes or a giant cat-scratching post

The zoo said the alleged trespassing happened around 4 p.m. Thursday. The woman in a blond wig, red dress and leopard-print shawl addressed the animal from about 15 away as if it were a long-lost friend, witnesses said. NBC New York’s Jessica Cunnington reports.

The notorious Bronx Zoo lion lady strikes again.

This may not have been the first time the woman did it, either. Jessica Cunnington reports.

Two NYPD cops recovered a stolen FedEx truck after the thief took it on a wild 70-block spin through Manhattan Tuesday, authorities said. The 60-year-old thief allegedly jacked the truck, which still had the keys in the ignition, near East 28th Street and First Avenue in Kips Bay came in shortly before 10:30 a.m., according to the Daily News. He…

The elaborately decorated five- to six-bedroom home known for being bathed in blue light at night is now up for sale, listed for more than $1.6 million

Jersey Shore’s ‘Blue House’ is up for sale listed for $1.6 million. Ted Greenberg reports.

Harambe was shot dead in May 2016 by Cincinnati zookeepers who feared for the safety of a toddler who climbed into the gorilla’s enclosure.

A 7-foot-tall bronze statue of Harambe, the Cincinnati Zoo gorilla that made national headlines in 2016 after picking up and carrying around a 3-year-old boy who climbed into its enclosure, then getting shot, appeared on Wall Street Monday.

Cops are looking for a man in a hard hat who allegedly stole a Roomba Vacuum Cleaner at knifepoint from a Bed, Bath & Beyond in midtown Manhattan last week. The suspect was caught trying to leave the retailer’s Avenue of the Americas store with the Roomba without paying shortly before 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, police say. A loss prevention...

The 44-year-old man who spent the better part of two days in a tree in Queens has finally come down after repeated attempts from NYPD hostage negotiators to talk him into climbing down. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

The NYPD’s hostage negotiation team has been talking with a 44-year-old man who climbed up a tree in Queens and has refused to come down for more than 36 hours. NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

The 44-year-old man who spent the better part of two days in a tree in Queens has finally come down after repeated attempts from NYPD hostage negotiators to talk him into climbing down. Police responding to a 911 call Wednesday about a dispute inside a building on 145th Avenue in Brookville encountered Roody Thomas when they arrived. They say he…

A man in Queens is crying fowl after an animal attack on his way to work left him bloodied and concerned for his neighbors’ safety — but it wasn’t a dog, cat or even a New York City rat that went after him. His aggressor was a rooster.

A Queens resident walking down the street Thursday morning says he was attacked by roaming roosters that have been in the neighborhood for years.
NBC New York’s Checkey Beckford reports.

It’s not clear what will happen to Barney next — or what exactly he’s been doing since his escape from a local farm on July 20.

A Queens building superintendent made a bizarre and grim discovery while checking out a leak: the badly decomposed remains of a longtime resident — and her daughter was still living in the apartment.