Queens NY +Strong Fumes/Gas Odor+

Queens NY +Strong Fumes/Gas Odor+ Shorefront Parkway near Beach 92nd Street numerous calls into 911 of people getting sick resulting from an heave gas (from a plane that maybe dumped fuel) or sewer odor (from the sewerage treatment plant) in the area, EMS and FD requested, several people are complaining of symptoms. several schools have children overcome.

JFK Airport Tower confirming that a plane did dump fuel in the area.

Two Arrests Made for the Scrawling Anti-Jewish Graffiti on 17 Cars in Queens Last Week.

Police say James Connolly, 20, of 60-05 170th St. in Flushing, was charged with 18 counts of criminal mischief as a hate crime, a witness fingered him for the string of graffiti, which plastered cars on 164th Street between 65th and 67th avenues in Fresh Meadows with swastikas and a message written in black marker: "Kill the Jews, 7-14-05."

As reported at that time by VOS IZ NEIAS that's the date may refer to July 14, 1933, the day Adolf Hitler banned all political parties, except for the Nazis, in Germany.

Brooklyn +Unusual Trauma+ Toddler Tumbling into Chemicals

Brooklyn Crown Heights +Unusual Trauma+ Pacific St. And Nostrand Ave. A 10 month old baby tumbled in a bucked of chemicals. Baby now in cardiac arrest. being escorted via NYPD to Interfaith Hospital.

Manhattan NYC +Unstable Building+

Manhattan NYC +Unstable Building+ 201 East 57th St. Div 3 repots approximately 4 tons of concrete was poured through a wall of a 5 story building under construction and its going thru the wall which is unstable, 100 people evacuated from the adjacent 6 story 50x100 building. requesting R-3 and the Collapse Unit.

Plan to raise condo property taxes as reported by VOS IZ NEIAS, is down.

Albany – A state bill that would have spiked property taxes for condominium owners and especially for Kiryas Yoel MonDroe, has faltered in the face of stiff opposition, and its dead for this session, but Senators hope to revive it next session.

http://vosizneias.blogspot.com/2005/05/condo-owners-beware-bill-pending-in.html

Bear in Monticello NY – Yesterday Mornig on Broadway.

Staten Island NY, +Illegal Daycare Center+

Staten Island NY, +Illegal Daycare Center+ NYFD are now in the middle of busting an illegal daycare center called Torah Center at 289 Howe St. in Staten Island, the center has approximately 80 children under the age of six at the above location, Dept. of Health and PD requested to the scene, also awaiting Child Services and Buildings Dept's.

U/D: 22:56
Rabbi Moshe Katzman, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Staten Island, said the violations concerned only paperwork, and nothing that could have endangered the children.

Do We Have an Iraq Situation With Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD's) here in Williamsburg?

Should The Military Send In The Troops To Search For Them?


No they don't have to search for it because Albor Ruiz from the NY Daily News, knows where it is.

NYC Manhattan +Hazmat Situation+

NYC Manhattan +Hazmat Situation+ 165 Broadway near Liberty St. and Liberty Plaza, one person overcome and was exposed to an unknown substance, about 20 people are being evacuated from the 53rd floor where the possible hazmat exists, ESU, EMS, FD are on the scene, requesting Squad-18 and the Hazmat and Hammer Teams.

NYPD treating it as a crime scene.

Its all over the news how outrageous it is the Hit and Run's all over the City. But now it hit home.

Williamsburg Brooklyn +Hit-Run Struck Pedestrian+ Division Ave. corner Clymer St. 90th Pct units on the scene advising of a hit and run at that location. Hatzolah and EMS units are treating 2 pedestrians both aided are not likely, they have been taken to L.I.C Hospital, 1 with head injuries. PD looking for a white lincoln town car in regards, unknown direction of flight.

U/D: 11:02 a.m.
Police say driver gave him self in, is no longer considered a Hit and Run.

Two Attacks On Teenage Girls In Monsey NY

The attacks have local hasidic community on edge, and some men are planning on doing private patrols until the attacker is caught.

Police are expected to release a sketch of what they believe the attacker looks like on Thursday.

Beth Rochel School Administrator said that the girl "wasn't very hurt, she was okay. She wasn't very physically hurt or mentally hurt."

NYC Manhattan +Officer Shot By BB Gun+

NYC Manhattan +Officer Shot By BB Gun+ 374 Pearl St. and St. James Place 5th precinct area, 2 off-duty NYPD officers were shot by a BB gun out of a window from a housing project, PD calling for a level 1 mobilization, num. units enrte. aviation overhead, also ESU and K9 on the scene. no serious injures to the officer.

Home Depot to Bed Stuy Section of Brooklyn

New 100,000-sq.-ft $10 million 100,000-square-foot Home Depot retail store at 585 DeKalb Avenue (one block from Nostrand). completion of the location is expected this summer.

City Lawmakers Call For Faster Release After Arrest

City officials are introducing the "Charge or Release" bill to the Council Wednesday to ensure anyone arrested in the city is charged or released within 24 hours of arrest. The bill also gives the Council oversight of the arrest-to-arraignment process.

Many of our communities suffer from constituents who are being kept far beyond 24 hours, as the statistics have pointed out, in Manhattan there’s a 42 percent chance of someone being arrested having to stay more than 24 hours, and the numbers get worse.The NYCLU supports the Charge or Release bill.

Wanted Robber Walked Into The 90th Precinct Standing In Front of His Own Wanted Poster.

Williamsburg Brooklyn. A suspect in two cab robberies walked into the Police Station into the hands of cops who were looking for him. Sergeant Norman Horowitz Commanding Officer of the 90th Precinct Detective Squad was stunned of the stupidity of the robber, that came in the station house to check on his partner in crime who was picked up earlier in the day.
There was a wanted poster a few feet next to him, and fliers distributed throughout the neighborhood, I can't understand how he can walk into a police station, The Great Sgt. Norman Horowitz said, but obviously he did not notice it, but we did.

U/D: 05/26/05 4:24 a.m.
Both men pleaded not guilty to the May 11 robbery. Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge James Gibbons ordered each held in lieu of $10,000 bail.

Sullivan County Route 17 soon to get up to speed to 65 mph.

Tired of slowing down or breaking the law every time you head into Sullivan County doing 65 mph.
Well, just so you know, the Department of Transportation plans to have the speed limit on Route 17 in Sullivan County raised to 65 mph ahead of the Memorial Day weekend, sometime before Friday, the DOT will pull down the old signs and unwrap the new 65 mph ones that were installed last week.

But there will be three 55 mph sections where driving the new speed limit would be too risky. They are as follows:
From the Orange County line to a half-mile past Exit 112, the Masten Lake exit.
Around Monticello, between Exits 104 and 106.
Around Parksville, where there's a stop light at Exit 98.

Queens NY +Unusual Fire Traffic Alert+ Long Island Expressway.

Queens NY +Unusual Fire Traffic Alert+ Long Island Expressway near 57th Ave. And 74th St. at Conrail Tracks FD on the scene with a large outside fire of an homeless shanty under the LIE roadway, the fire is impinging on the steel beams of the LIE and has damaget 2-3 beams and have been deformed by excessive heat conditions. PD to shut down highway due to poss structural problems, and also to close down the Conrail Freight Tracks, FD asking DOT to respond for damages to the Long Island Expressway roadway, also asking for Highway and additional PD for traffic control, units awaiting city engineer to check stability of roadway.

Orange County Officials Talk Over Sewer and the Clear-Cutting of Trees, With Village of Kiryas Yoel MonDroe.

Yesterday morning, County officials met for more than 90 minutes with representatives of Kiryas Yoel and its developers and emerged with what participants said was a potential resolution. They wouldn't discuss the terms. More meetings will follow, Acting County Attorney said. He said the two sides also are trying to resolve another issue that was raised in the announcement last week: the clear-cutting of trees for more planned development off Mountain Road.

Verrazano Bridge Closed +Traffic Alert+

Verrazano Bridge +Traffic Alert+ Brooklyn bound upper level is closed due to a flipped tractor-trailer leaking fuel and spilling its load onto the bridge.

U/D: 8:14
Bridge reopened.

First Large-Scale Bio-Terror Exercise Test to New York City

NEW YORK - The first large-scale test of New York City's bio-terror plans will be exercised on June 1-2 when more than 1,200 federal, state and local players assemble for a realistic training exercise.

The New York scenario will involve a simulated terrorist dissemination of a biological warfare agent at an outdoor event in Queens or Brooklyn. The New York officials will work with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga., from the Strategic National Stockpile Program.

The program is designed to supplement or re-supply state and local health agencies in the event of a terrorist or other emergency. The exercise is code-named POD-EX, for "points of distribution," and will involve many sites for distribution of anti-toxins.

Casino Plan in Sullivan County, first it was three - then five - then one. Now it's back to three.

That's the number of Indian casinos that Governor George Pataki is supporting for the Catskills.
Since that's what the state legislature approved, allowing development of up to three Indian operated gambling casinos in the Catskills. According to Pataki staffers legislation he will present to state lawmakers before the end of the legislative session next month to ratify the casinos. And at this point all three casinos are slated for development in Sullivan County. Two of them already have deals with Sullivan County and the Town of Thompson where both casinos will be built. State Senator John Bonacic says that 3 is a good number. He said colleagues in the Senate will be more receptive to moving quickly to approve land claim settlement bills, a prerequisite for any agreement over casino construction.

South Brunswick NJ Two Ceremonies Mark the Unveiling of the Tombstone of the Late Bobov'r Rabbe.

Two separate ceremonies were held yesterday to keep apart two factions, each of whom has in mind to replace the late Bobov'r Rabbe.
About 800 men attended the services of the son-in-law Rabbi Mordechai Unger at 11 a.m. A similar number attended a 5 p.m. service of the rabbe's half-brother Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam.

Kiryas Yoel MonDroe has enough political power to make something happen that Orange County either never thought of or couldn't make happen.

Last week the County Executive accused Kiryas Yoel of illegally hooking up to the main sewer on Mountain Rd., and developers are indeed hooking into a sewer main for which they have no approval or right to do so they should be stopped. But at least Kiryas Yoel had the vision and guts to try to solve its obvious water problems and sewer problems. But should that be the straw man in the race for Orange County executive?
Is that enough evil, anyway, that the County Executive should call on Thursday that the District Attorney should investigate"?

Permit to Renew a Hazardous-Waste Facility in Williamsburg Brooklyn, Is Scheduled for a Public Hearing Today.

Radiac Research Corporation is headquartered in a low-slung building in South Williamsburg at 33 S First Street on Kent Ave. but Williamsburg is not an appropriate site for the station, which stores hazardous waste and low-level nuclear waste from medical devices, this facility is not essential and should not be located in a populated, and increasingly popular, Brooklyn community.
State environmental regulators have scheduled a public hearing for today on whether the station's owner, Radiac, should rve a renewal of a nuclear storage permit from the state, but senator Schumer is against it. He said a fire at the site could threaten 130,000 people who live within a mile. Radiac officials said yesterday that the levels of waste at the site were too low to pose a risk even after an accident.

U/D: 05/26/05 8:42 a.m.

Last Weeks Building Collapse in Williamsburg Brooklyn Blamed on Age of Building.

Brian Flynn the engineer overseeing the project at 103 Meserolo said, that Thursday's building collapse was obviously because it was a very old building and the bearing walls - made out of wooden joists and an old weak brick support wall - buckled perhaps because the joists were overloaded with construction material, or the wall's mortar had disintegrated.
11 workers were injured in the accident and the one worker that was critical in Bellevue Hospital, is now in stable condition.

Brooklyn +Small Aircraft Down+ Saturday

Brooklyn +Small Aircraft Down+ At about 13:30 at Coney Island Beach along Steeplechase Pier a small plane a Cessna-172 crashed on the boardwalk all 4 occupants DOA and heavily entrapped, FD reporting no spillage of fuel from plane on the beach but has a wing with approximately 5 gallons of fuel in it, and no fire, PD declared incident a crime scene, crime scene was set up, large crowd formed at Pier and boardwalk, numerous ESU, PD, FD, EMS, and OEM worked on extrication a level one mobilization was called, and FAA Notified. Probably engine problems.