Follow NBC New York - Local, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, WhatsApp etc.) https://follow.it/nbcnewyork Sat, 25 Mar 2023 15:31:25 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTYcvIui6cFKYps0ohxaO6Yr For the first time since Oct. 2022, the New York State Department of Health confirmed that polio had been detected in local wastewater from Rockland County.]]> Sat, 25 Mar 2023 00:47:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTYcvIui6cFKYps0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTbJq4cw0Y3yvezdsCmHakzH A group of ex-fire chiefs have filed a lawsuit accusing the FDNY commissioner of age discrimination. The department called the claims "baseless."]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 22:28:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTbJq4cw0Y3yvezdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTbK3O5bZBn9N-T5HJgy6HUf A construction worker died after falling multiple stories at the new Chase Bank headquarters being built in midtown Manhattan, according to city officials.]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 21:55:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTbK3O5bZBn9N-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTbK3O5bZBn9N5VjH6qdYdAk A Bronx man faces murder and other charges after he allegedly stabbed and killed his neighbor during a dispute over loud music.]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 21:35:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTbK3O5bZBn9N5VjH6qdYdAk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTZft-8i1-IT-F1cWWor9YPv San Diego State (No. 5) shocks the top-seeded Alabama Crimson Tide to advance to the Elite Eight for the first time in the program's history.]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 20:57:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTZft-8i1-IT-F1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTY1deEPJ9b2BV1cWWor9YPv Both Democrats and Republicans in Connecticut are backing a proposal to move up the date of Connecticut’s presidential primary in hopes of giving the small state a bigger say in choosing presidential candidates. The bill, which unanimously cleared a key committee on Friday, would move the date of the primary from the last Tuesday in April of each presidential election...]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:49:06 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTY1deEPJ9b2BV1cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTYcAdAEPWfIYyejEQ2Mq9rY Parents cannot be required to pull their children from private schools in New York that fail to meet state-designated standards, a judge decided, striking down a key provision of rules recently passed to strengthen oversight of such schools, including those specializing in religious education. The ruling in a state trial court in Albany came in response to a lawsuit brought...]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 18:25:35 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTYcAdAEPWfIYyejEQ2Mq9rY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTYfrUnJEBBl8Mb1naedg1wr Four people were hurt and nearly two dozen families displaced Friday afternoon following a devastating fire that officials say originated in the souvenir shop on the ground floor of the Chinatown building. Intense flames pour out of the front of the Mott Street gift shop around 2:30 p.m. and climbed up to the second floor, home to a family association....]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:32:24 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTYfrUnJEBBl8Mb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTYkfFPs4_nWLaCY3L745TL_ New Yorkers who do not qualify for or cannot afford health insurance based on federal guidelines can access a health care program offered by NYC Health + Hospitals that will guarantee low-cost and no-cost health care services. Although, NYC Care is designed to make health care affordable, the program notes that it is not an insurance plan. While not an insurance...]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:14:40 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTYkfFPs4_nWLaCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTYOV1HtvLz_zaCY3L745TL_ The boyfriend of a Bronx woman found dead in her bed this week has been arrested on murder charges, police announced. Jeremy Cortorreal was arrested Thursday, one day after Lissette Gomez was discovered dead inside her apartment on Cauldwell Avenue, according to the NYPD. She was discovered around 12:45 p.m. The 38-year-old woman was found “with trauma to her face...]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 14:35:09 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTYOV1HtvLz_zaCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTaoCspgbuI8P-T5HJgy6HUf A Long Island couple is suing the company that owns TikTok, saying that videos on the popular social media app glorified suicide and led to their son’s death. Dean and Michelle Nasca state in the lawsuit that the app directed more than 1,000 videos promoting suicide, hopelessness and self-harm to their 16-year-old son Chase’s curated “For You” page. The couple...]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:47:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTaoCspgbuI8P-T5HJgy6HUf https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTZEpc7earkDZMb1naedg1wr One woman is going down for a multi-million dollar insurance scam after running up bogus claims on medications her pharmacies never shipped to customers, federal officials in New Jersey said. Authorities arrested Aysha Khan on charges relating to a years-long fraud scheme to the tune of nearly $10 million, U.S. Attorney Phillip Sellinger announced. The 33-year-old was arrested and scheduled...]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:53:08 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTZEpc7earkDZMb1naedg1wr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTZEpc7earkDZKCY3L745TL_ Here’s an NJ Transit story that commuters might actually be pleased to hear. A judge just granted the transit agency’s request to ban a 36-year-old customer for a year after he had been charged with at least seven separate lewd acts aboard its buses over the past two years, NJ Transit said Friday. Each of the seven lewd acts was...]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 12:42:19 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTZEpc7earkDZKCY3L745TL_ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTb5uvVgDCNQYZs0ohxaO6Yr A family is inconsolable as they grieve the death of their loved one, Mucielouise Bostic — a mother of four who was killed in a single car crash in Newark early Monday morning as she made her way home from a late night nursing shift. “I will never see her I will never see her … it will always hurt,”...]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:13:48 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTb5uvVgDCNQYZs0ohxaO6Yr https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTbJEoDhwLTq9-zdsCmHakzH A New York grand jury has been hearing evidence of hush money payment benefiting former President Donald Trump. Follow live updates on the probe.]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:31:56 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTbJEoDhwLTq9-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTZfhQDwRjj9e11cWWor9YPv Yeah, New York City, the snow is a lost cause at this point. We’re already talking thunderstorms, alas. Ready for another mixed bag? Got you. We’ve got a dreary, mainly dry Friday on tap with highs in the mid-50s and showers possible south of the five boroughs. Then we’ve got a stormy Saturday. That system gets going early, with light...]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 09:19:31 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTZfhQDwRjj9e11cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTZ-AdS44itiB-zdsCmHakzH It was July 24, 2022. NYPD officers responding to a 911 call at a Manhattan apartment building found a 35-year-old woman unresponsive in a bedroom. She had no obvious signs of trauma. On Friday, eight months to the day she was found, police identified the woman as Kathryn Marie Gallagher, a Pennsylvania-born painter and “internationally-recognized fashion designer,” according to her...]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 08:14:03 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTZ-AdS44itiB-zdsCmHakzH https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTa2RcATfJIsTClmFkX7M1Jw Young moviegoers don't mind paying extra fees to see films on the big screen, if it means they get to sit in the best seats in the house, a new survey says.]]> Fri, 24 Mar 2023 05:00:01 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTa2RcATfJIsTClmFkX7M1Jw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTaXgchW3KAk_11cWWor9YPv The Audubon Society is named for 19th century naturalist John James Audubon, though the New York City chapter is distancing itself from that name. That's because of his role in enslaving people.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 23:47:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTaXgchW3KAk_11cWWor9YPv https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTb1CidRTENmUcb1naedg1wr New York City hip hop personality Taxstone was convicted in connection to a 2016 shooting that killed a man at Manhattan concert venue Irving Plaza just before rapper T.I. was scheduled to perform, the Manhattan district attorney announced.]]> Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:21:00 +0200 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/v3/gKtpH_EHfTb1CidRTENmUcb1naedg1wr