Tag: New York City

Among the victims was five-year-old Yaakov Farhi, who died three months after he was run over near his home in the Midwood section of Brooklyn.

“The intersection of low vaccination rates and evidence in the wastewater is a recipe for real, serious concern.”

The new terminal is to be developed in two phases, with the first new gates opening in 2026 and project completion anticipated in 2028.

The mayor’s administration said its November Financial Plan is projected to save the city $2.5 billion in the next two fiscal years.

In the next week, print, television, radio, and digital ads will go live across New York City promoting COVID-19 vaccine booster shots.

“If you or your child are unvaccinated or not up to date with vaccinations, the risk of paralytic disease is real."

State lawmakers passed the upgraded gun control laws in response to a US Supreme Court decision several months ago that struck down the state's century-old pistol permit process.

Police have made three arrests in connection to the hate-filled attacks on Jews in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

The 44-year-old victim was choked by an unidentified male suspect, who made anti-Semitic remarks while she waited on the platform.

In July 2021, nearly 80,000 jobs were added to the city; this past July (2022), just 23,000 jobs were added.

The plan is expected to fund $15 billion worth of improvements in the subway, bus and commuter rail systems as part of the MTA’s 2020 to 2024 Capital Plan.

The project is to include enhancements to the streets and sidewalks, the creation of new public spaces in the area around the station, and the construction of more seamless transit connections between Penn and nearby subway stations.

The program is starting with three mobile testing units, paired with local pharmacies, and will expand to more than 30 units through the month of July.

May his memory be blessed.

"What I saw in South Williamsburg is a community where people do trust one another."

NJEHA has a growing presence on Staten Island and is under investigation by the district attorney’s office.

Eugene M. Chudnovsky, Distinguished Professor of Physics at Lehman College and the Graduate School of CUNY, took offense at calling Israel “a settler-colonial state.”

The leadership of the Satmar Chasidim in New York announced that they are backing of Brooklyn Borough president Eric Adams for mayor after previously endorsing his closest competitor former Democratic mayoral candidate Andrew Yang.

An NY1 survey this week, two weeks ahead of the June 22 Democratic primaries, shows Adams with 22% of the votes, leading over Andrew Yang's 16%.

Apparently, in 2015, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York sent Morales on an all-expenses-paid, week-long trip to Israel, which the grateful candidate described as a "propaganda trip."

When the first subway train arrived at the Lower East Side station, it was welcomed with “gleeful shouts, applause, confetti and shouts of hurrah,” according to the Forward report.

The investigation into the ParCare Community Health Network's alleged fraud will continue, but the AG herself will have “zero involvement” in it.

“That one night in Williamsburg I let my frustration and concern get away with me and I should have been more careful in my language."

NY State’s worst "cluster" is in the mostly-Satmar town of Kiryas Joel in Orange County, where 19% of the tests Monday came back positive.

God save the declining United States of America.

US Representative from New York Nita Lowey, a Democrat who is 83, has announced her retirement last October.

The reopening takes place just in time for Tuesday's Democratic primary race for Congressional candidates.

Where and when in New York City was it shot, and what happened just before?

Felder: "The people have spoken . . . If the mayor won’t open all our playgrounds Eichenstein, Yeger and I will cut the locks open ourselves.”

"This is no reflection whatsoever on the men and women of the police department who are out there doing the work.”