Brooklyn — Less than three weeks after he took office, Councilman David Greenfield has made significant progress on one of his key campaign pledges – securing free door-to-door transportation for
City Council members Elizabeth Crowley and Ydanis Rodriguez have joined firefighters and members of Community Board 12 today to call on Mayor Michael Bloomberg to keep fire companies open, especially
Councilman and community officials busied themselves with phone calls on Monday surrounding the imprisonment of Yehoshua Pollack as a suspect in the ongoing Holyland investigation. Pollack, the treasurer of Betar
Following reports in the international media that Iran and Zimbabwe signed a deal by which the former receives uranium in exchange for oil for the latter, government officials in Zimbabwe
The prices are being published ahead of Lag B’Omer, and more importantly, this coming shabbos, permitting one to present oneself at the lighting ceremony marking the start of the Lag
Federal prosecutors are investigating allegations that bid rigging and fraud at Mount Sinai Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Hospital resulted in the hospitals awarding contracts worth tens of millions of
US President Barak Obama on Monday surprised Defense Minister Ehud Barak, when the president walked into a meeting between Barak and National Security Advisor General James Jones. The president used
When police suspect a former prime minister is guilty of law-breaking, it moves cautiously and seeks firm ground prior to publically making accusations or possibly arresting the suspect. It appears
New York State on Monday awarded a $9.4 million grant to an Upper East Side hospital to run an urgent care center that would treat the minor emergencies of some
The Bloomberg administration has brokered a deal to bring a ShopRite supermarket to the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard, the NY Post has learned. It’s part of a plan that will
I am not one to take notice of cases tried in the courts or of their outcome. However upon reading an article delineating the criminal charges that Mr. Sholom Rubashkin
A free speech dispute over a California law banning sale of violent video games to children will go to the Supreme Court for review. The justices Monday accepted the state’s
Senate Democrats failed to muster enough votes Monday to take up Wall Street reform, with a key Democrat voting with Republicans against the push to get the debate started. Sen.
There are several versions of the story making their way around town, a story that emerges from the Har Nof area of Yerushalayim, involving a gabbai of Chanichei Yeshivos. According
Brooklyn – Councilman David G. Greenfield today joined with local elected officials to strongly condemn an act of anti-Semitic vandalism that occurred in the Boro Park Section of Brooklyn. A
7:00PM EST: [VIDEO & UPDATE BELOW] Dozens of NYPD officers are on the scene in Marine Park, after an officer shot & killed an armed perpetrator, and a second suspect
Woodmere, NY – Some Woodmere residents are fighting against the construction of an ambulance garage in their residential area. The garage would house vehicles from Hatzalah of the Rockaways and
It was a sad morning on Sunday when representatives of HoTza’ot L’Poel (court collections arm) armed with a court order, empowered to confiscate anything of worth towards collecting a debt
Ali Ismail Ahmed Sawiti, a wanted Hamas terrorist, was killed during a joint IDF-Border Police-ISA (Israel Security Agency – Shin Bet) arrest operation in the village of Beit ‘Awwa, south
White House National Security Adviser James Jones has apologized for a joke that offended some Jewish citizens, reported earlier today by YWN. “I wish that I had not made this
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