N. J. Burkett
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Correspondent, WABC-TV in New York, America's largest ABC station, VP National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, New York, Trustee @wbgo 🎼🎺
Joined December 2008
BREAKING: Francesco Cali, the 53 year-old reputed boss of the Gambino crime family, is gunned down outside his Staten Island home. The highest-ranking organized crime figure to be murdered in New York City in recent memory.
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So we made it through the Lincoln Tunnel and into Manhattan in under four minutes. This was at 5PM on a Saturday night. #congestionpricing @mta @AAA_Travel @RidersAlliance @ABC7NY
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BREAKING: Police confirm football player has died after suffering an injury during practice at Sachem East High School, Farmingville, LI.
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BREAKING: Authorities say MS-13 is crippled after massive Suffolk County dragnet yields 96 arrests. 2yr undercover investigation thwarted 7 murder plots. Suffolk DA says it’s a “significant blow to #MS13 leadership on LI” where gang has tried to establish East Coast base.
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It’s a sell out! The 65th @NYEmmyAwards will take place before the largest crowd ever. Congratulations to our nominees and honorees—including the legendary newsman, @DanRather and two American heroes @jonstewart and @johnfeal2. See you on October 8th for Emmy Night in New York!
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On my 30th anniversary with @ABC7NY, I share with you Bill Beutel’s handwritten note on my 6 month anniversary. I wish he were still here so I could say thank you, so I could reassure him that I’m still enjoying myself and so he could see that even after 3 decades, he was right.
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#Squirrel attacks in #ProspectPark. 7yr-old María Guerrero says it leapt up, sank its teeth into her arm. 5 people attacked in 5 days.
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I’m thrilled to announce that @DanRather, @jonstewart and @johnfeal2 will be among the honorees at the 65th Annual @NYEmmyAwards. Marriott Marquis Times Square, October 8th. Join us for #EmmyNightInNY! Tickets still available at
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BREAKING: Killer couple's landlord tells @ABC7NY, "They didn't say they were terrorists when they moved in."
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With Marty Glembotzky, the news photographer who was my partner on September 11th. 20 years later, we returned to the same spot across from the World Trade Center where we narrowly escaped the collapse of the South Tower. @ABC7NY
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It’s both a haunting reminder and a sobering warning. “#Auschwitz: Not long ago. Not far away.” A new exhibit opening on May 8 at @MJHnews in Battery Park City.
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A socially-distanced greeting from @NYGovCuomo, behind the mask. He gets into a Dodge Charger and drives himself away with a State Police escort. “Good luck,” I said. “To all of us,” he added. #GovernorAndrewCuomo
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@lizzynyc89 @MTA @AAA_Travel @RidersAlliance @ABC7NY I never said it was a positive or a negative thing. I’m a journalist, that’s not up to me.
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Congratulations to my colleagues at @ABC7NY for winning 17 Emmys, including Sade Baderinwa who won her first New York Emmy (her first time entering, so she’s one for one!) #nyemmys2021
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Congratulations to the entire Eyewitness News Team! @ABC7NY won every major market English language newscast category in the 2020 New York Emmys. Morning Newscast, Daytime Newscast, Evening Newscast and Weekend Newscast. Four Emmys—it’s the @NYEmmyAwards Grand Slam. #NYEmmys2020.
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All access to the men of Engine 255 and Ladder 157. Our special report, 24 Hours with the @FDNY airs Monday on @ABC7NY at 5. How did we do it? Photographer @JoshHartmann and I were driven in an SUV with lights and siren. Watch as they’re the first to arrive at a burning rowhouse.
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BREAKING: Subway lines shut down, mass evacuations at Times Square subway station beneath Port Authority. Sources confirm reports of an “explosive device,” possibly a pipe bomb.
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BREAKING: New York City Mayor @BilldeBlasio arrives at Capitol Hilton Hotel in Washington after announcing he would boycott White House meeting with @realDonaldTrump. Refuses comment; press conference expected this afternoon.
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BREAKING: Three demonstrators arrested outside #Trump International Hotel at Columbus Circle after climbing inside globe sculpture and unfurling anti-deportation banner.
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BREAKING: Killer couple's landlord tells @ABC7NY, "They didn't say they were terrorists when they moved in."
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Otis Gooding in the Burn Unit at @NYPEmergMed after his e-cigarette exploded in his pocket. He will need skin grafts for multiple burns.
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The Eyewitness News Team is a team. Through this extraordinary documentary, you see the events of 9/11 through the raw @ABC7NY footage from that day—as well as our own reflections, 20 years later. My reunion with Marty Glembotzky was very emotional for me. #September11th.
Eyewitness News reporter @njburkett7 .& photographer, Marty Glembotzky, rushed down to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. They share their powerful story of survival on that horrible day in our new special, 'Eyewitness to 9/11: Behind the Lens'. 🎥
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Unmasked by a US Senator?.Watch as @SenSchumer slips up and reveals my first name, after I raise my hand at a news conference. (He’s in good company. @billritter7 lets it slip from time to time. So did Storm Field and the great Bill Beutel, back in the day.) #DontWearItOut
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Sorry to disappoint the viewers of Eyewitness News at Noon but I am not Nina Pineda. @7OnYourSideNY #7OnYourSide
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Long lines outside urgent care centers are back, amid a resurgence of #COVID19 in New York.
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Evelyn #Yang with a box of colored chalk, campaigning on the East Side for her husband, @AndrewYang. #NYCMayoralRace
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Shoppers waiting for a supermarket to open in the New York City suburb of Huntington, NY. I think they’ve got the #SocialDistancing thing down.
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It’s moments like these when you feel like the income inequality situation is boiling over in New York. Huge numbers of demonstrators, many of them young, converge on #GrandCentralTerminal in massive protest over transit fares and police crackdown on fare evasion.
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NYPD honor guard escorts the casket of Det Brian Simonsen to St Rosalie RC Church, 80 miles east of the city in Hampton Bays, LI. His wake will take place over two days and the funeral is planned for Wednesday at 10AM. @NYPDnews #briansimonsen
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#LisaColagrossi was as genuine and honest and sincere as anyone I've ever known in TV news. Not just @abc7ny's loss. She's everyone's loss.
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Don't you love it when you wake-up thinking it's Sunday, then realize it's only Saturday? #sunrise
http://t.co/KHXmURUjtm.
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@Karlin_C @MTA @AAA_Travel @RidersAlliance @ABC7NY Actually that’s exactly what we did last night. And it was terrific.
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I was thrilled to learn this week that I’ve been elected to an unprecedented 4th term as President of the NY #Emmy Awards! We’re planning a series of events—including nominations announcement later this month. Will the 2021 Awards be an in-person event in the fall? Stay tuned!
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Would you give an interview to this man?. It seems that random, man-on-the-street interviews are harder to get these days and it just occurred to me why. I’m basically a masked man with a long metal pole.
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The audience has demanded this, and now it’s finally here. @billritter7 is growing up on @ABC7NY. Literally.
Hey everyone! I finally have my own account! Follow along for updates on my ever growing hair.
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So, where were you when the storms rolled in? . I was standing outside The United Nations with @ABC7NY photographer Rob Cantwell, waiting to go live for Eyewitness News at 5. And then the skies started to get really dark. Watch what happens next.
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@CatholicRailfan @MTA @AAA_Travel @RidersAlliance @ABC7NY That’s exactly what I said—that if enough people decide that paying $9 is worth it to get through the tunnels in 5 minutes—we could be right back where we started. With the same level of congestion and a new toll.
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My family and I are truly grateful to the administration, faculty and students of @NJCUniversity for this thoughtful tribute. Teaching undergraduates was one of my dad’s greatest joys. #inmemoriam.
#𝙄𝙣𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙢.NJCU mourns the passing of Newton Jones Burkett, Jr., a former professor of research & writing from 1995-2008. Professor Burkett passed away on November 3, at age 83. Our condolences to the Burkett family including @ABC7NY award-winning reporter @njburkett7
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EXCLUSIVE: #MetroNorth engineer Steven Smalls, credited with rescuing several passengers from his burning train. http://t.co/96ufdouKYO.
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Det Steven McDonald was the embodiment of courage and decency. He was the finest of New York's Finest. #NYPD
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BREAKING: MTA agrees to grant $500,000 death benefit to family of any @MTA employee whose death is related to #COVID19. Agreement with @TWULocal100 and @TwuSamuelsen extends to all MTA unions.
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“I’ve spent two decades running from the towers, and it’s time to stop…” My essay on #September11th for @NatGeo and @nytimes. The final episode of #OneDayInAmerica runs tonight on @NatGeo.
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Yes, I really did say this on @ABC7NY this morning.
"The storm with the fancy French name is about to hit the Hamptons." -@njburkett7 #HurricaneHenri #TropicalStormHenri.
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Sade is back! Our friend, Sade Baderinwa returns to @abc7ny full-time, beginning today at 5PM. Join me on Facebook @NJBurkett7 or @abc7ny at 3:30PM today, when Sade and I will have a candid chat about the concussion she suffered and the long recovery that got her to this day.
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See September 11th through the eyes of the news team that covered it. It’s riveting—and weaves raw video from 2001 with our own observations and reflections, twenty years later. Thank you, @abc7newsbayarea.
.@njburkett7& Marty Glembotzky, from our sister station WABC in NY, rushed to the WTC on 9/11/01. They share their story on that horrible day in 'Eyewitness to 9/11: Behind the Lens'. NOW STREAMING on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and Android TV.
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Lifelike child mannequin is pronounced dead by EMS medics in Bayside, Queens this morning. The discovery was apparently treated as a crime scene for several hours before investigators realized the dead baby was neither dead nor a baby. [@NYPDnews photo]
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Exhibit A for why local TV reporters in New York resist doing liveshots from the #Dumbo section of Brooklyn. http://t.co/nJIfsBvWqH.
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When you get a beach day in the dead of winter, you go to the beach. (Especially if you're going to be buried in snow the following day!)
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“Why didn’t you just go home?” After 17 years, nobody had ever asked me that question. Not until I sat down with the producers of “Days That Shaped America,” a film on 9/11. History Channel, 9PM tonight. And no, it never even occurred to me to go home.
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I am profoundly sad, @ChrisWragge. Nina was a bright light on @CBSNewYork and in our city. Thinking of you and all of Nina’s colleagues at Channel 2.
Our hearts are broken. @CBSNewYork @ninakapur1 we will miss your smile, your warmth, your presence. Rest In Peace young lady.
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EXCLUSIVE: The bus operator who drove his @MTA bus off the I95 overpass in The #Bronx last night has refused an MTA-administered drug test, according to transit sources. #NYPD official confirms that the driver’s actions are now under investigation. #bronxbuscrash @ABC7NY
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EXCLUSIVE: Manhattan woman credits #hydroxycholorquine for her recovery from #COVID19. “Something made a difference enough for the fever to finally just break. And once my fever was gone, it was gone. That was it, I was done. Which is great.”
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Partying in Central Park to celebrate Roma Torre, Jeanine Ramirez, Kristen Shaughnessy, Amanda Farinacci and Vivian Lee. Trailblazers and colleagues and great friends! @kshaughnessy2 @RomaTorreNYC @RamirezJeanine @amandafarinacci @IamVivLee
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Did you know that more than half a million people jump the turnstiles and push their way onto buses every day and ride the New York City transit system for free? (The equivalent of every man, woman and child in Atlanta!) A loss to #MTA of $215M so far this year.
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But you’re watching @ABC7NY. And we thank you.
That moment when .@ABC7NY. goes live to .@njburkett7.with a story and a bus with a .@fox5ny. ad is in the shot. 😂 #CouldntHaveTimedItBetter
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She’s probably the biggest pit bull terrier I’ve ever seen—with a heart to match. So why would someone abandon her, chained to a tree in Prospect Park? My interview with the man who found her tonight on @ABC7NY at 11.
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Thank you, Scott. Hardly a day has passed when I haven’t thought of the men and women who died on this day. #September11.
Every 9/11, I think of my dear old pal @njburkett7 who nearly gave his life that day to report on what happened. That was journalism.
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Is it wrong for me to get annoyed when people act like the eleventh day of the month of September is just another day? #NeverForget911.
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"I really love fog. You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed to be." --O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night
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Congratulations to my hometown heroes, the #ElmoraTroopers, for a fantastic win to advance in the 2019 #littleleagueworldseries. #GoTroopers @ABC7NY @espn
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Unforgettable reunions! @Delta 302, the first direct flight to JFK from San Juan, arrives this evening. #hurricanemaria2017
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I'm thrilled to announce that the 2020 New York Emmys will take place online at @NYEmmyAwards beginning at 7PM EDT on Saturday, April 25th. Our 137 envelopes will be opened on video by a variety of solo presenters in different locations across the metropolitan area. #NYEmmys2020
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Congratulations to the elite #NYPD scuba team, after recovering .40 cal gun used to kill #RandolphHolder. @NYPDnews
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What is even more remarkable is that they’re always working on their birthdays.
the first two reporters on Eyewitness News @ABC7NY at 5 today have birthdays. Happy birthdays @njburkett7 and @JoshEiniger7.
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The deserted streets of SoHo after New York City shut down its nightlife. All bars and restaurants, cafes and theaters closed indefinitely as authorities struggle to manage the spread of #coronavirus.
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Rabbi Joe Potasnik at @ADL_NYNJ: “We will not stop living, we will not stop loving, we will not stop going to services, we will not stop having brises, bar mitzvahs, weddings, all the celebrations of life because we feel that is the best response to those who seek to destroy us.".
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People stop me all the time. “I grew up with Eyewitness News!” I tell them, “So did I!” I'll never forget the first time Bill Beutel said, “Here’s EWN reporter, NJ Burkett.” It doesn't get any better. But we wouldn’t be celebrating 50 years without you.
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Onboard @delta flight 2371 to JFK after a three hour departure delay at Las Vegas. Pilot apologized to passengers, saying he would try to make up some lost time, saying “We’ll fly it like we stole it.”
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After several hours of steady, wet snow, it’s beginning to pile-up in Riverdale, The Bronx. NYC Mayor @BilldeBlasio is urging people to avoid the roads overnight and to take mass transit in the morning. @ABC7NY
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After a week in bed with the flu, I took a walk down to the beach today and it felt great! #FluNoFlu
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Hundreds of anti-Trump demonstrators on the move from Washington Square toward Midtown Manhattan. #TrumpsAmerica
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Right before this picture was taken, I got the biggest hug I’ve had in a while. It’s been a long time, my friend.
When both of you are vaccinated and past the two week mark of getting the second shot and you haven't seen each other for more than a year… Well what a great feeling to run into my friend and @ABC7NY colleague @njburkett7
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