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Jewish Neighbors Harassed Outside Temple During Sabbath

This past Saturday, May 22, 2021, at approximately 7:00 pm, a blue Toyota Camry pulled up in front of 4911 16 Avenue (Agudath Israel of Sixteenth Avenue) in Borough Park.According to reports to police, the three men in the car began to yell anti-Jewish statements at four men

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Brooklyn Borough President Candidates Talk Yeshiva Regulation at Forum

At a virtual forum Thursday afternoon, five leading candidates for Brooklyn Borough President weighed in—or demurred—on a hot-button issue for Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jewish community: how strictly to regulate secular education in the city’s yeshivas. The candidates—Council Members Antonio Reynoso [https://www.reynosoforbrooklyn.com/], Robert Cornegy

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Andrew Yang Scores Endorsement from Key Orthodox Borough Park Leaders

Andrew Yang. (Image: Campaign)The heads of several major Hasidic sects in Borough Park jointly endorsed Andrew Yang for mayor yesterday, almost certainly guaranteeing the candidate several thousand votes from the neighborhood. The endorsement ran as an ad [https://hamodia.com/2021/04/28/yang-endorsed-coalition-borough-park-hasidic-activists/] in Yiddish-language newspapers on Wednesday,

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Ranked Choice Voting Opponent Running No-Choice Council Race in Brooklyn

Council Member Kalman-Yeger at Digilio Playground. John McCarten/NYC CouncilBy Gabriel Sandoval, THE CITY. This article was originally published [https://www.thecity.nyc/2021/4/7/22372941/kalman-yeger-unopposed-brooklyn-city-council] by THE CITY. [https://www.thecity.nyc/] When voters in Brooklyn’s City Council District 44 cast ballots in November, they’ll

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39 Community Leaders Endorse Doug Schneider In D39 Race

This morning Park Slope civil rights lawyer and Democratic District Leader Doug Schneider [https://dougschneiderbk.com/meet-doug/] announced his campaign to represent the 39th Council District had received the support of 39 nine community leaders across the district. Doug Schneider, campaign photo.Schneider is running to replace term-limited council member

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Who’s Got The Right Of Way? MTA Bus Drivers Cause Massive Traffic Jam In Borough Park

Highlawn School in GravesendTwo MTA buses blocking each other’s path yesterday evening at a Boro Park intersection resulted in a conflict between the drivers and a massive traffic backup, according to videos shared to Twitter. The cause, the MTA says: an illegally parked minivan and shipping container. In the

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District 39 Council Candidates Talk BQE, Schools and Gowanus Rezoning

L-R Top row: West, Hanif, Schneider; bottom row: Haq, Krebs, ReinCandidates for Brooklyn’s Council District 39 (Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, Windsor Terrace) gathered virtually Thursday night to talk about issues ranging from the crumbling Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Gowanus rezoning to school reopenings and composting. At a forum hosted

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Two Arrests In Two Deaths Of Children

Hatzolah and NYPD arriving at the scene. Image by Loudlabs.Boro Park/Mapleton Yesterday, the driver who struck and killed one child and left another in critical condition [/one-child-killed-another-critically-injured-in-horrific-borough-park-crash/] on January 4, was arrested and charged with criminally negligent homicide, leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death, and

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Masbia’s Brooklyn Soup Kitchens To Double in Size To Meet Unprecedented Demand

A line forms outside Masbia’s Borough Park location in May 2020. (Image: Alexander Rapaport/Masbia)Masbia, the Borough Park-based soup kitchen and food pantry network [https://www.masbia.org/] that distributes kosher hot meals and emergency food packages, announced yesterday it would double the size of its Brooklyn locations.

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Southern Brooklyn Parents React To Ending of Gifted & Talented Screenings

When it was announced Monday afternoon that the Department of Education (DOE)’s Gifted and Talented (G&T) exams would cease after this school year, many parents were outraged, particularly those who live or have children attending schools in Southern Brooklyn. Carrie, a single mom who’s son attends a

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Hatzolah EMS Service Could Land Flying Ambulances On City Streets

Rendering of the new CityHawk air ambulance (Image from the Urban Aeronautics website)To avoid traffic, Hatzolah wants to take to the skies, or so it would seem. Hatzolah Air, a newly formed air division of the volunteer emergency medical service (EMS) organization whose independent chapters serve mostly Orthodox Jewish

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Brooklyn Attendees at Capitol Riot Include Supreme Court Judge’s Son and Boro Park Provocateur

Aaron Mastofsky speaking in a video interview while at the US Capitol building on Wednesday.The large crowd of Trump supporters who gathered in Washington on Wednesday to protest Congress’ certification of the election included multiple notable Brooklyn residents. As Gothamist first reported [https://gothamist.com/news/trump-fur-ever-costumed-capitol-rioter-son-brooklyn-supreme-court-judge] , among those

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One Child Killed, Another Critically Injured in Horrific Borough Park Crash

Police at the scene of the incident. Image by Loudlabs.One child has died, another severely injured, as a result of a horrific car crash in Borough Park/Bensonhurst on Monday morning that has left the community in deep mourning. The victims, two young boys, were struck by a blue

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One Killed, One Critical After Retaining Wall Collapses

Hillel Lichtenstein/BklynerSUNSET PARK/BORO PARK – At around 01:10 pm Monday afternoon, 911 received calls for a retaining wall that collapsed on a few workers in the rear of 454 42nd Street. When first responders got to the scene they discovered a retaining had collapsed on two workers trapping

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Culver El Project: 36 Affordable Condos Have Been Sitting Empty For Over A Year

The Culver El building in Boro Park. Liena Zagare/BklynerThe Culver El Affordable Housing Project on 37th Street would bring large affordable condominiums to the area. The city-initiated rezoning was approved in October of 2010, but ten years later, amid a growing housing crisis, just 36 affordable condos have been

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Thursday Crime Blotter: Missing Kids, Assaults, Burglaries, Robberies & More

BROWNSVILLE – Police are asking for help finding 13-year-old Malik Daleiy, who was reported missing on December 8 but was last seen on Friday, December 4. Photo of Malik Daleiy. Courtesy of DCPI.Daleiy was last seen inside his residence at approximately 12:00 p.m. on Friday, December 4, in

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Massive Crime Blotter: Missing Persons, Robberies, Burglaries, Shootings, Stabbings And More

BAY RIDGE – Police ask for help finding 51-year-old Oleksandr Zlenko, who has been missing since Tuesday, November 24. Photo of Oleksandr Zlenko. Courtesy of DCPI.Zlenko is about 5’6 tall and weighs about 150 lb, cops say, and was last seen at his residence in Bay Ridge at 10:

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Thursday Crime Blotter: Missing Persons, Assaults, Burglaries, Robberies & Homicide

CROWN HEIGHTS – Police are asking for help finding 66-year-old Anthony Monderson, who was reported missing on November 17, but was last seen on Friday, November 6. Photo of Anthony Monderson. Courtesy of DCPI.Monderson was last leaving his residence at approximately 10:00 on Friday, November 6 in Crown Heights.

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Six Missing Neighbors – Have You Seen Them?

Photo of Hussain Munasr. Courtesy of DCPI.SHEEPSHEAD BAY – Police are asking for help finding 26-year-old Hussain Munasr, who has been missing since yesterday, November 4. Munasr was last seen leaving his residence around 12:30 a.m. on Wednesday in Sheepshead Bay. Cops say Munasr is 5’4 tall,

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Green-Wood Cemetery’s Dia de los Muertos Ofrenda Offers Beauty and Hope for Troubled Times

The Dia de los Muertos Ofrenda in Green-Wood’s historic chapel. Cheyenne Ligon/BklynerBrooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery is celebrating the centuries-old Mexican tradition of Dia de los Muertos this year with a large-scale community ofrenda, or altar, dedicated to New York’s victims of COVID-19. Visitors to the altar, which

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OPINION: The Hidden Costs of Turning a Blind Eye

The ultra-Orthodox community in New York is experiencing a second wave of COVID-19 infections after losing hundreds of members in the first wave. The lack of compliance with public health guidance has brought renewed tragedy. Many people are pointing fingers at the community for their failure to comply and to

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‘I’m Going To Talk To Proud Boys To Come To Boro Park’ Heshy Tischler Says

Heshy Tischler interrupts Dr. Mitchell Katz, President, and CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals at a press conference in Gravesend Park on Sept. 25, 2020. (Photo: Paul Frangipane)BORO PARK – Harold “Heshy” Tischler, the man at the forefront of the violent protests [/harold-heshy-tischler-criminal-past/] who was later arrested and released without

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Harold ‘Heshy’ Tischler Arrested For Inciting To Riot And More

Heshy Tischler interrupts Dr. Mitchell Katz, President and CEO of NYC Health and Hospitals at a press conference in Gravesend Park on Sept. 25, 2020. (Photo: Paul Frangipane)After leading two violent protests against COVID-19 restrictions in Boro Park on Wednesday and Thursday, October 7 and 8, Harold ‘Heshy’ Tischler

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The Leader Of The Violent Protests In Boro Park Has A Criminal Past

Many Trump flags flew at the protest last night in Boro Park. (Photo via Loudlabs NYC)BORO PARK – The man at the heart of the violent protests against masks is a marginal figure in the Haredi community who was convicted in a massive illegal immigration scheme before he remade himself

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Boro Park Leaders Silent As Residents Protest COVID-19 Restrictions

A fire that demonstrators started last night. (Photo via Citizen app)BORO PARK – Hundreds of Orthodox Jewish residents gathered in Borough Park near 46th Street and 13th Avenue late last night to protest Governor Andrew Cuomo’s new restrictions [/latest-on-southern-brooklyns-covid-cluster-return-to-lockdown/] on houses of worship, schools, and businesses after a spike