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Longtime television news anchor, journalist, and author Ernie Anastos<\/a>, best known as one of the most recognizable faces in New York City local news for decades, has died at age 82. CBS<\/a> reports he died early Thursday morning of pneumonia at Northern Westchester Hospital. A major figure in New York television news, Anastos anchored at several flagship stations, including ABC 7<\/a>, CBS 2, and Fox 5. Over a career spanning more than 40 years, he covered major national and local events, including the September 11 attacks, the coronavirus pandemic, major political developments, and other historic moments. The announcement was made over social media, as Fox5 posted: \u201cIt is with profound sadness that we share the passing of Ernie Anastos,…<\/div>\n

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Longtime television news anchor, journalist, and author Ernie Anastos, best known as one of the most recognizable faces in New York City local news for decades, has died at age 82. CBS reports he died early Thursday morning of pneumonia at Northern Westchester Hospital. A major figure in New York television news, Anastos anchored at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2325810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2325809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Legendary-NYC-News-Anchor-Ernie-Anastos-Dies-at-82.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325811,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325809\/revisions\/2325811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2325810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}