New York, NY – Sanitation: Collection Of Garbage Sometime Next Week
New York, NY - With sanitation trucks either plowing or getting stuck, garbage collections in the biggest city in the country have ground to a halt.
But life hasn't, and the garbage is piling up fa...
New York, NY – Sanitation Department Won’t Repay Brooklyn Residents For Private Plows
New York, NY - The Department of Sanitation said today that it will not reimburse Brooklyn residents for the money they shelled out to have their snowy streets plowed.
According to the DOS, only pr...
Coney Island, NY – Mother of Three Killed in Raging Apartment Fire
Coney Island, NY - A fast-moving fire tore through an apartment near the top of a Brooklyn high-rise early Friday, killing a mother of three, officials and neighbors said.
Sura Rivka bas R' Duvid P...
New York – Clash of the Titans: Facebook Passes Google as The Most Popular Website In The U.S.
New York - Facebook was America's most visited in 2010, overtaking search engine giant Google for the first time.
The social network site edged out Google.com with 8.9 per cent of all U.S. visits b...
New York, NY – Crime Numbers Drop in 2010; Violence Spikes
New York, NY - For 2010, New York City is once again on pace to record an annual decrease in major crimes, even as the New York Police Department was placed under unprecedented pressure to justify its...
Brooklyn, NY – Flatbush Woman Delivers Food to Snowbound Strangers
Brooklyn, NY - It was no joke when a total stranger knocked comedian/ventriloquist Kenny Warren’s door this past Thursday.
Warren, who lives on Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn between Avenues L and M, ...
New York – McGuire Takes Oath as New Sullivan County Court Judge
New York - Sullivan County’s new County Court Judge Michael McGuire calls his election the “fulfillment of a goal.”
McGuire took the oath of office administered by Judge Burton Ledina in a packed c...
Jerusalem – Hamas Official Most Wanted Since 1998 Under Arrest
Jerusalem - Palestinian security forces have arrested a wanted Hamas official in the West Bank. Al-Kawasma has been described as number one the Palestinian Authorities' "most wanted" list since 1998.
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New York – Brooklyn Landlord Tries To Flee Home Invaders
New York - Brooklyn landlord jumped out of a window and broke his arm after two goons posing as cops tried rob him Thursday and then fled in a car belonging to an MTA officer, sources said.
The two...
Bnei Brak – Stylist Convert Designer Clothing Into Modest Outfits for Haredi Women
Bnei Brak - Miri Beilin does not own a television. The fashion designer and haredi stylist watches the fashion network only in her studio, and she's fine with that. "I live and breath fashion, I know ...
New York – Andrew Cuomo To Take Governor’s Oath at 10 p.m.
New York - Andrew Cuomo is so eager to take office that he'll be sworn in two hours before becoming governor.
Cuomo is set to be given the oath of office privately by Court of Appeals Chief Judge J...
New York – NY Post: Sanitation Workers Targeted Borough Park
New York - There was a method to their madness.
The selfish Sanitation bosses who sabotaged the blizzard cleanup to fire a salvo at City Hall targeted politically connected and well-heeled neighbor...
New York – New Mobile Application Finds Minyanim Anywhere in the World
New York - The days of not being able to find a minyan when you need have officially come to an end with the launch ten days ago of MMinyan, a free worldwide mobile application containing not only a c...
Manhattan, NY – Sanitation Worker Rescues Stranded B’klyn Heart Attack Victim
Manhattan, NY - There was at least one shining moment for New York's Strongest during the blizzard: A Brooklyn man says a sanitation worker saved his life.
Pincus (Pinky) Tusk says he would have di...
New York, NY – City Death Rate Falls to Lowest Level Ever
New York, NY - The death rate for New Yorkers plunged to its lowest level ever last year.
The city Health Department counted 52,881 deaths last year, down 1,312 from 2008's total.
"New Yorkers a...
Safed – Rabbi Claims Discrimination after Police Summons Him for Racist Letter
Safed - Chief Rabbi of Safed Shmuel Eliyahu has been summoned by police over a letter he published urging the public to refrain from renting and selling homes to Arabs. However Eliyahu told Ynet Frida...
New York City – Public Advocate Catalogs Nearly 1,000 Complaints On Snow
New York City - Public Advocate Bill de Blasio today released a report detailing 933 complaints compiled by his Office following the snow storm. The calls and emails detailed by the report point to a ...
New York, NY – ‘It Was Hell’: Dispatchers Tell of Flood of 911 Calls During Storm
New York, NY - As the snow deepened Sunday and Monday, roughly 100 front-line 911 operators in Downtown Brooklyn fielded tens of thousands of calls, struggling to sort the true emergencies from an oce...
Brooklyn, NY – Greenfield: Give Bloomberg A Shovel To Help Clean The Streets [Video]
Brooklyn, NY - Two Council Members in New York City's hardest snow-hit neighborhoods in Southern Brooklyn are disputing Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s assertion at a late afternoon press conference that ev...
New York – Hikind: I Am Glad I Did Not Support Bloomberg [Video]
Brooklyn, NY - Shimon Gifter interviewed earlier today NY Assemblyman Dov Hikind while standing on the icy streets at Ave L in Flatbush.
As of tonight that same street has still not been cleared fr...