Monsey, NY +Working Fire+ At a private dwelling at 181 Viola Rd and West Maple Ave.

After a lull of almost eight months in the Kiryas Yoel MonDroe, water pipeline controversy, lawyers for the village and Orange County government appeared in court yesterday.

Palisades Parkway +Heavy Delays+ Rockland County, Orangeburg. Heavy traffic north bound Palisades Parkway before exit 7, due to a car in to the wood, Traffic extends atleast five miles.

Brooklyn +One Alarm Fire Bais Yaakov School+ a small fire at the 3rd floor of the Masores Bais Yaakov School at 1395 Ocean Ave and Ave’s H & I a 4-story 75X100 school building.

U/D: 14:59
Fire under control

With the summer season beginning, Monticello Village police department will be cracking down on moving vehicle violations.

Police will be targeting violations like speeding, U-turns on Broadway, not stopping for pedestrians in crosswalks, running red lights, turning where turns are prohibited, all of which are violations of traffic law and create dangerous conditions.

Traditionally Broadway, one of the busiest roadways in Sullivan County according to the state Department of Transportation, gets even worse during the summer months with fender benders and jammed traffic a common occurrence.

Russian Prosecutors Drop Probe in to the Russian translation of Kitsur Shulchan Aurech – to Determine Whether it Constitutes Anti-Russian Material
The prosecutor’s office declined comment. That their office was responsible in provoking religious hatred.
The original probe was initiated after two nationalist activists complained the text is aimed at “insulting human dignity based on national and religious affiliation,” according to an earlier prosecutors’ statement posted on the Web site of an anti-xenophobioup. The text was also accused of labeling Chrans “worshippers of idols” in a reference to Christians’ main religious symbol, the cross.
Moscow district prosecutors last week summoned for questioning a Rabbi who published the translated text.
The investigation was meant to review a ruling last month by Moscow prosecutors that the text did not inspire hatred and a criminal case was not warranted.

Prosecutors also decided not to pursue a separate probe into 19 nationalist lawmakers who had called for outlawing all Jewish organizations.

Brooklyn +Person Off Roof+ President Street and Kingston Ave, person fell off the roof of a 4 story Lubavitch Yshivah building, Hatzolah on the scene asking ALS on a rush.
Aided in critical condition to Kings County Hospital.

ביטע מתפלל זיין לרפואתואברהם בן פנינה פערל בשורות טובות

Woodbury +3 Alarm Fire Ace Farm+ 236 County Rt 105 at the Ace Farm in a large commercial structure fully involvod, mutual aid from all surrounding depts, Harriman, MonDroe, Tuxedo, Corwall, washintonville, Lakside, Chester and Salisbury Mills all on the scene.

00:42
Now transmiting a 5th Alarm Fire, bldg fully involved 13 tankers and Firefighters from 20 companies; mult engine operating.

U/D:
Blackened rubble is all that remained of that wooden barn with corrugated metal that at Ace Farms.

Some 17,000 chicks perished in the massive blaze. The seven-week-old chicks were being raised to replace egg-laying hens. The fire wiped out about half of the farm’s replacement stock.
Destroyed too in the fire was the farm’s store, which sold produce and eggs.
The fire, spotted by a field hand who lives on the property, the store was engulfed when firefighters arrived.

While the cause of the fire is under investigation, the owners believe that an electrical short in a storage area might have sparked the blaze.
The Etzel family that owns the farms said they would continue to operate the business despite the fire.

The Village of Kiryas Yoel MonDroe bought the property last year, its name has become a rallying cry for residents hoping to prevent the densely populated Chasidic community from expanding its borders to acquire ACE Farm and other surrounding land.

Woodbury, Orange County +Serious MVA+ NYS Thruway north bound at MM 42 Hatzolah on the scene req. 2 buses and ALS on a rush.

22:12
Treating several victims from the car accident.

Brooklyn +MVA BQE+ 4 car MVA with injuries on the BQE West Bound, on the way from Williamsburg to Borough Park, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridge, BQE closed Tilliray St. exit. Hatzolah on the scene.

City officials said that traffic agents don’t have quotas to fill but those who fall short of expectations may be shadowed by a supervisor.

Two Police Department officials turned into diplomats of sorts during a contentious oversight hearing by the City Council’s transportation committee on parking issues yesterday

Susan Petito, assistant commissioner of intergovernmental affairs at the Police Department, elaborated further on the non-quota policy that brings in more than $500 million a year to the city.
“A requirement is not what we’re talking about,” Petito said. “We’re talking about assessing what has happened in the past for purposes of planning for the future.”

Asked about the quota allegation at a Brooklyn event, Mayor Bloomberg explained. “We have productivity measures. We’re always going to have productivity measures. You work under a productivity measure,” Bloomberg said to reporters. “If you don’t write anything, I would suggest you’re gonna have a big problem.”

The arrest of a local rabbi triggered a protest by hundreds of members of the Orthodox Jewish community outside police headquarters.

After the rabbi 62, stopped to check on his niece who was pulled over by police 30, a argument and scuffled irrupted, the rabbi was arrested to be charged with resisting arrest, obstructing of justice and assault on a police officer.
But as a result of the protest, police said that an internal affairs investigation has been launched and the County Prosecutor’s Office would be brought in to determine if officer acted appropriately.

Rockland County, Tallman, NY +Working 1 Alarm Fire+ Rt 59 at Dykes Lumber 100X150, across from the fire house, units o/s with a heavy fire with numerous M/A from Monsey, Suffern E/R, Medics to stand by at the scene.

23:49
Second alarm transmitted.

00:12
4th Alarm has now been transmitted.
Fully involved fire in lumber yard.

00:17
Now a general alarm fire.
Flames are 50 feet in the air and remains very D/W/H, evacuating surrounding area.

1:45
The main building collapsed.

Monsey NY +1 Alarm Working Fire+ 15 Suzanne Dr and Maple Ave. working fire heavy smoke showing from a vacant frame 20X40 private residence.

Brooklyn +MVA Overturned Vehicle+ MVA with an overturned vehicle, Ave. I and East 17th St. PD, ESU, FD and Hatzolah are all one the scene for the trapped.

Last Thursday, attorneys from the Russian State Prosecutor’s Office questioned Rabbi Zinovy Kogan, chairman of the Congress of Jewish Organizations – one of the two large Jewish umbrella organizations in Russiagan was asked to explain the contents of Shulhan Arukh – the code of Jewish halakhic law compiled in the 16th century – to ascertain whether it constitutes racist incitement and anti-Russian material, especially regarding its treatment of non-Jews.

The inquiry was launched following a letter signed by 500 public figures, including some 20 members of the nationalist Rodina party, urging the state prosecutor to outlaw the Jewish religion and all the Jewish organizations operating in Russia.

The prosecutor rejected requests of Jewish organizations to open an investigation into those who had initiated the letter.

Is the NYPD pushing its officers to give out more parking tickets? That’s what the City Council wants to know in a hearing holding today.

The Police Department has long denied that parking ticket quotas exist, but recently six officers accused the department of penalizing them for failing to meet ticket quotas.

The council is also looking into allegations of excessive ticketing of double-parking violations.

This man is suing a photographer for taking his picture without his permission in 2001.
The photographerwas was working on a project, called “Heads,” where he took pictures of people walking in the city unbeknownst to them, rigging lights and focusing his lens on a spot 20 feet away from them.
The man is upset that the photographer is benefiting from his photograph because it’s been sold as a print and as a part of a book. The photographer says that he worries about artists’ ability to photograph in the city and says, “It is a fundamental right, and I will defend it. I consider myself at the end of a long line of photographers who have done what is now being described as a malicious criminal act.”

After the city stopped sandblasting to remove toxic old lead paint from the Williamsburg Bridge in 1996, because of a lawsuit of outraged residents claiming it posed a health hazard, the contractor filed nine lawsuits alleging breach of contract.

Now the city ended up cutting the check to the bridge contractor, in the city’s largest legal payout this year, bringing the settlement to about $20.2 million.

Brooklyn Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, said “I don’t care how many millions of dollars it cost the city. People’s lives are more important,” he said.

No casino deal for Sullivan County struck as state legislature adjourns, and that has Democrat Assemblywoman Aileen Gunther of Forestburgh fuming.
The casino issue could come up again in the fall if a special legislative session is called. If not, it may have to wait until next January.