Brooklyn +Brooklyn B.Tunnel Bus Fire+ A bus fire in the Brooklyn Battery Tunnel with 20 people that have self evacuated the tunnel walking out on foot onto the Brooklyn side, EMS treating some and Hatzolah treating some.
U/D: 19:48
While FD was operating at the bus, a suspicious package was found under the drivers seat.
Manhattan +Suspicious Package In Transit+ Suspicious package with wires sticking out from the package in transit at 14th St Union Square train station, the L train has been suspended and the station evacuated, bomb squad responding.
Lakewood — Township police did sett up traffic barricades and crossing guards during the Jewish holidays to help protect and direct pedestrian traffic on Rosh Hashana and will do the same for Yom Kippur, to protect the flow of foot traffic and to separate walkers from vehicles. Large crowds of Orthodox Jews are walking along side roads in the township on their way to celebrate the holidays.
Police said barriers were set up to give police a very visible presence.
Brooklyn +Overturned Auto+ An MVA with an overturned vehicle with serious injuries to a 4 year old child as per Hwy-2 Lt. on 46th St and 9th Ave, Hatzolah on the scene with aided child, FDNY and PD requesting Highway A.I.S.
Monsey +Overturned Vehicle+ FD requesting EMS to the scene of an overturned auto with entrapment on Main St between Maple Ave and Rt 59.
NYC +The NYPD Steps Up Security On Subways+ Police in New York City are ratcheting up security on subways and trains because of a relatively specific, but uncorroborated, threat that 19 operatives have been deployed by using backpacks and even baby carriages.
U/D: 16:32
New York Police Commissioner says information received indicated subway system may be target of a terror attack “in coming days.”
Williamsburg +Level One Drill+ PD calling for a level one mobilization drill at Clymer St and Kent Ave., Aviation to take part in the drill.
Brooklyn Bridge +Closed For Traffic+ Due to an MVA the Brooklyn Bridge Manhattan bound is closed for traffic, Highway supervisor is enroute.
B.Q.E +Traffic Alert+ Westbound Brooklyn Queens Expressway at the L.I.E. an overturned vehicle with no pin, ESU responding to upright, Highway units are on the scene.
It was an unhappy start to the New Year for one Jewish school the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach on Long Island early yesterday during Rosh Hashanah, when three armed men broke in through a window and started a fire to cover their tracks after failing to crack a safe.
But retribution came quickly, as cops busted all three and they were charged with burglary and weapons possession and hit with an attempted-arson count. The fire caused minor damage.
NEW YORK, NY, October 04, 2005 — Jews from around the world celebrated Rosh Hashanah along with the ritual of Tashlich. The new year is commemorated with tossing bread crumbs into the water to cast away sins. WNYC’s reporter found a congregation at the East River in Brooklyn.
Despite a shortage of Arabic translators, the FBI turned down applications for linguist jobs from nearly 100 Arabic-speaking Jews in New York
The FBI’s New York office in October 2001 asked a local charity that works with Arab Jews to submit applications for the linguist jobs, which are crucial to anti-terrorism investigations, but not one of the more than 90 applicants was hired.
A spokesman for the FBI’s New York office says that headquarters made the final cuts.
The Quebec Court of Appeal has overturned a precedent-setting order that a man pay damages to his ex-wife for withholding a get despite having signed an agreement to appear before a Montreal rabbinical court immediately after receiving a provisional civil divorce.
The three judges, ruled unanimously that Superior Court justice Israel Mass was wrong 2 1/2 years ago when he decided that the defendant, Jason Marcovitz, entered into a contract that is civilly enforceable, despite its religious nature.
The higher court says the federal Divorce Act does not give courts jurisdiction to require the issuance of a get, the Jewish religious divorce, no matter what the divorcing parties have consented to, because courts don’t have the right to enforce a matter of religious obligation. It also ruled that the 1990 amendment to the act requiring spouses to remove barriers to the other’s religious remarriage before a civil divorce is granted was irrelevant in this case because of a legal technicality.
Brooklyn +B.Q.E. Traffic Alert+ A disabled tractor trailer is blocking lanes on the westbound B.Q.E. and the Flushing Ave exit, PD arriving now.
Woodbury — Town officials have spent more than $430,000 so far on planning consultants and lawyers to develop a new comprehensive plan and contend with a host of land-use issues that have cropped up since ACE Farm was sold last year.
The issues came fast and furious: a looming land tussle with neighboring Kiryas Yoel; the decision by town leaders to update Woodbury’s zoning; an attempt to protect the town by turning most of it into a village.
These and other activities – some still in progress – have been steadily registering as billable hours for two outside firms working for Woodbury since the land uproar arose last year.
The legal bills will only grow higher. Lawyers for Woodbury and Vaad Hakiryah of Kiryas Yoel are fighting in court over the Village of Woodbury petition and haven’t even gotten yet to the substance of Vaad Hakiryah’s objections.
Meanwhile, an even bigger court battle is brewing once Vaad Hakiryah announces its plans for ACE Farm and hundreds of other acres of Chasidic-owned land outside Kiryas Yoel.
West Boca, Florida — +Man Shot Outside Synagogue+ A 44-year-old man was shot twice outside a suburban Boca Raton synagogue during Rosh Hashanah afternoon prayer service on Tuesday by an alleged 79-year-old man a fellow worshiper after an argument between the two, the shooter was quickly apprehended.
U/D: 10/07/05
The Aided is making a steady but slow recovery, according to his brother-in-law. He is expected to be in intensive care for weeks to come.
Both bullet wounds were within millimeters of being fatal, doctors told the family.
Crown Heights, +Level One Mobilization+ PD called a level one mobilization yesterday in middle of the day on the first day of the holiday, at the synagogue in Crown Heights on Carroll St and Schenectady Ave in regards to a suspicious package at/near the synagogue untill the bomb squad properly ID’ed the package.
Queens +G.C.P. Traffic Advisory+ Delays through out the area of the westbound Grand Central Parkway and the B.Q.E. due to an MVA that’s blocking the right lane, PD on the scene.
Borough Park +Bookshelf On Child+ A bookshelf has collapsed and fell on top of a child in Borough Park at 1209 61st St between 12th and 13th Ave’s, Hatzolah transporting the child to Maimonides Hospital.
Brooklyn +Bank Robbery+ At the Independence Bank on East 13th St and Ave J a level one mobilization has been called due to a robbery at the bank.
