Williamsburg Brooklyn, Engineers Investigate Cause of Building Collapse
The owner of the building received a permit in March to raise the roof of the three story apartment building but got a violation for not having an approved set of plans at the site.
The city has orde...
Developer plans 750 Units on Williamsburg Waterfront and this is just the beginning:
Final approval of the North Brooklyn rezoning expected in two weeks, Developer L&M Equity and partner RD Management. plans to build 750 to 800 housing units on the Williamsburg waterfront. They sa...
Environmentalist and Long Time President of Orange Environment, Inc. Mr. Edelstein, Runs for Orange County Executive.
Mr. Edelstein will run on the Democratic line. And he claims that the County administration didn't address the issue of Kiryas Yoel MonDroe of how much growth the area could accept, to handle the wate...
Kiryas Yoel, MonDroe Accused of Illegal Sewer Hookups
Orange County Executive asked the District Attorney to look into 26 illegal sewer connections that were found hooked-up to the County's main sewer at the homes build on Mountain Road.
The Village of K...
Brooklyn +Possible Anthrax+ Was A False Alarm
Brooklyn +Possible Anthrax+ Wycoff Heights Medical Center FD on the scene at Wycoff Ave. And Stockholm Ave. reporting that 3 people a woman with 2 men walked into the ER covered in white powder, repor...
Brooklyn +Complete Building Collapse+
Brooklyn +Building Collapse+ Full Building collapse, Technical Rescue to 103 Meserole Street c/s of Manhattan Ave. & Leonard St. Eng. 229 on scene confirming a building 20X40 top 2 floors of 4 sto...
Williamsburg Brooklyn: +Suspicious Device+
Williamsburg Brooklyn: +Suspicious Device+ 86 South 6th St. Bedford, Broadway and Berry St. On the cross. PD on the scene with a suspicious metal box, ESU, EMS, FD, and Bomb Squad requested by Pct. Sg...
B.Q.E. Closed *Traffic Alert* NOW
B.Q.E. *Traffic Alert* Brooklyn: N/B B.Q.E. and Tillery St., accident involving 5 cars, one of them an off duty fire fighter, all lanes are closed. FD, Santation, PD HWY 2 and EMS are all on the scene...
New Zoning would Bring Large (and Affordable) Towers to Williamsburg Waterfront. Large – Yas Affordable – ?
Some locals are concerned by the prospect of apartment towers looming over the much lower-density waterfront, but most public officials have been enthusiastic about the plan they belief that this rezo...
The owner of a upscale women’s clothing factory in Williamsburg, Brooklyn 68, has been charged and found guilty
He is accused of arson in setting fires in 1989 to fraudulently obtain $9 million from insurance firms, and in another scheme, to cheat creditors out of $2.5 million.
Under federal guidelines, he fac...
Queens NY +Bias Crime+ in Fresh Meadows
Queens NY +Bias Crime+ On 164th St between 65th and 67th Ave's PD investigating a Bias incident, they found seventeen vehicles painted with graffiti of anti-Jewish remarks like "Kill all Jews on 7-14-...
Taxes in Kiryas Yoel, MonDroe stable; no hike for 8th straight year
The village of Kiryas Yoel is raising its tax levy the total amount it collects from property owners to support its spending. That figure will go up by 7.7 percent to roughly $1.4 million in the fisca...
Williamsburg Bank Tower To Become 165M Condominium
Williamsburg Bank Tower (aka One Hanson Place) The property will have approximately 216 condominium residences and will have 33,000 sf of ground-floor retail space.
Israeli Government Examining Cruelty of Police Against Satmar Students
Israel, Knesses Interior Committee discussing today - after a video turned up - the brutality by riot police at the Satmar Yshiva in Jerusalem last month.
Kiryas Yoel, A 30-year-old female elephant from Florida gave an hour-long performance, until Town officials broke up the show.
Town officials broke up the elephant show, saying no one warned them or applied for a permit, they issued no citations but would write a letter to the Kiryas Yoel School District, which had paid the e...
Kiryas Yoel, MonDroe is asking The State DEC for a permit to operate a new well which is twice as productive as any of its 15 existing wells.
They have applied to the state Department of Environmental Conservation to operate the well in MonDroe capable of producing 450 gallons per minute. By contrast, the most powerful wells in Kiryas Yoel'...
Rezoning, left us – on the other side of the river from Manhattan Mike Bloomberg – Disappointed.
City Officials With No Outlook.
Rezoning Without A Plan?
Voluntary Affordable Housing?
Relocate Businesses to the Brooklyn Navy Yard?
Is this with Brooklyn's community on City politicians mind, or...
The Four Smokestacks Are On The Way Down.
As reported before on VOS IZ NEIAS. The four famous chimneys that have dominated the Queens waterfront for almost a century are on the way down, They'll be gone from view in about six weeks says CGS d...
Borough Park, BK +Customer Pinned Under Sfurim Shank at Judaica Store+
Brooklyn Borough Park, A male is trapped under 5 book shelfs full of books that collapsed on him - burying him under hundreds of religious books, Hatzolah and FD are on the scene at 46-02 17th Ave. an...