G.W.B. +Traffic Alert+

G.W.B. Traffic Alert, NY Bound GWB upper level hase been closed now, tractor trailer lost its axle, delays are more then 2 hours in to NY

Towing Threshold for Unpaid Parking Tickets To Be Raised from $230 to $350

Under NYC Council approved measure: Towing threshold for unpaid parking tickets would be raised from $230 to $350. But now Bloomberg has to sign it.

The voter-friendly bill is credited to Councilman Erik Dilan of Brooklyn.

Simcha Felder said, "I'm sorry I didn't think of it first.

Widow of murderd diamond dealer by mob sues City.

The widow of Israel Greenwald a diamond dealer who's body was dug up in a Brooklyn garage this past April 1st, 19 years after the murder by the mob, filed a $100 million notice of claim against the city and the NYPD.

She is blaming the NYPD's failures for the "gross negligence, recklessness, carelessness and wrongful criminal conduct" of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, who were still cops at the time of her husband's 1986 murder, after this two former detectives allegedly leaked sensitive information yo the mob.

Williamsburg +Suspicious Auto+

Williamsburg Suspicious Auto front of 550 Bedford Ave., Wythe Ave, Ross St. And Bedford Ave. to be closed off. ESU to respond to the scene.

U/D: 21:37
All clear by ESU, all traffic to be open.

Fire at the Klozenburg Camp now

Kluzenborg CampFire 06/2005
Originally uploaded by Shloma Shamos.

Woodbourne, Sullivan County at 218 FireHouse Drive a large working fire at a 3 story structure building, fire fully involved from an electricity malfunction at the klozenburg Bungalow Colony on Route 52 and Budd Rd. Engines from 3 departments are called to the scene.

U/D: 18:49
A 3rd alarm fire was ordered by IC. Fire Departments from Loch Sheldrake, Fallsburg, Grahmsville, Woodridge and Elenville are all responding.

U/D: 18:53
Hatzolah treating one victim from smoke inhalation.

NYS Thruway Traffic Alert

NYS Thruway all lanes South Bound of Town of Woodbury at MM 49.7 have been closed do to a double fatal MVA with very heavy delays.

Rubashkin Kosher meat plans new plant in Gordon, Nebraska.

Local Pride Co. owned by the Rubashkin family, which also owns Agriprocessors, a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, Iowa. has bought an old packing plant in Gordon, Neb. which has been closed for seven years, Local Pride plans to process kosher beef, lamb and bison products using workers from the nearby Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. If the plant passes a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection scheduled for Friday.
Reservation residents already have undergone training at the Postville plant which began with about 50 employees and now has 700 workers.

Meanwhile, the Co. said they are not worried about allegations by (PETA) People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that Agriprocessors' Postville plant uses cruel slaughtering methods that violate federal rules and strict kosher slaughtering standards. Plant officials say the animals' movements are involuntary and that massive blood loss to the brain brought on by slitting their throats renders them insensitive to pain within seconds.

Brooklyn +2nd Alarf Fire+

Brooklyn +2nd Alarm Fire+ 1400 Ocean Ave and Ave J, Fire on the 2nd floor of a 6 story 250X250 MD, fire out of the windows with people trapped on the fire escape. Hatzolah transporting 2 victims and 2 others by EMS. Fire is suspicious.

Brooklyn, +Thunder Storm Warning+

Brooklyn, +Thunder Storm Warning+ The National Weather Service has
issued a warning for a line of storms with hail, and 60 MPH winds until 4:30 PM

Chortkover Cemetery being dug up by State Hospital of Ukraine

Chortkover Cemetery
Originally uploaded by Shloma Shamos.

A hospital in the Ukrainian city of Chortkov has dug up an the oldest Jewish cemetery existing in Chortkov dating back to the early 17th century, that lies adjacent to the hospital and in order to use it as a garden.

Chortkov is home to a Jewish community whose members continue to bear a moral responsibility for the maintenance of local Jewish graves, and Its located in the Ternopol Region, 76 km. south of Ternopol and 82 km. from Chernovtsy
This act of desecration took place despite the fact that the cemetery is a registered historical property with the central government.

Buried here there are victims of the Khmelnitski pogroms, generations of local Jews, community leaders and Rabbis Zaddikem.

Jewish Inmate Files Suit Over Rules on Shaving

An Orthodox Jew imprisoned in the Toledo Correctional Institution prison, and is serving a life sentence for murder, accused the state of interfering with his religious practices by forcing him to shave his beard and sideburns. He filed a lawsuit yesterday against state officials in U.S. District Court in Toledo.
Because when he arrived at the Toledo prison, he was told that he had to cut his beard and sideburns because departmental policy prohibits beards longer than one-half inch on inmates.

Williamsburg, Brooklyn +People Ingested Halon Gas+

Williamsburg, Brooklyn +People Ingested Halon Gas+ On Broadway Ave and Boerum St. FD on scene and requesting EMS with a rush for 4-5 people who ingested halon from a system accidental activating and discharging dry chemicals at the gas station, victims to be de-contaminated.

Williamsburg +Fire Truck VS Motorcyclist+

Williamsburg Brooklyn +Fire Truck VS Motorcyclist+ A serious MVA involving a fire truck with a motorcyclist, aided pinned and in serious condition with severe leg trauma but not in likely condition, he is being transport vie police vehicle escort to Bellevue Hospital, Highway AIS requested to the hospital. Havemeyer and Broadway to the Williamsburg Bridge to be closed off now.
Requesting additional EMS for the Fire Fighters members of engine 221.

NYC Snapple Promotion Gone Bad

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Snapple wanted to break some record today by having the largest popsicle ever, and decided that Union Square and 17th Street in Manhattan would be the right place to have this giant popsicle displayed. Except the popsicle melted in the heat of the sun, with juice going everywhere there was Snapple juice all over the street causing, from walkers and bikers falling to the police and FD to be called in to handle the situation and wash the street and close down traffic, its sticky all over the street

One of the Potholes in our City, Managed by Bloomberg

One of the potholes in our City, managed by Bloomberg
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Big hole in the street is talk of the town, not only the town, the nation.

The NY Times Calls It The Grand Canyon of Potholes

Mother of Yankel Rosenbaum said: Money was not the issue.

Mother of Yankel Rosenbaum said: Money was not the issue. She said the justice her family won when the city admitted fault in her son's death was a bittersweet victory.
Fay Rosenbaum, 71, said she was bracing for a long court battle to prove that a city hospital botched her son's emergency room care when he was brought in with stab wounds suffered in the 1991 Crown Heights riot. But on Friday, the city not only admitted it "played a role" in the 29-year-old Australian's death, but it also offered $1.25 million to settle the case. "I kept saying it and saying it," said the gray-haired grandmother outside Brooklyn Civil Court. "They could have offered $100 million and no admission [of guilt], and they would have been on trial today. It was either that, or bring Yankel back. That, they weren't going to do." The staff at Kings County Hospital made the fatal mistake of missing one of his stab wounds. "Money does not make up having to live with yourself," Fay Rosenbaum said. "You have to feel you've done everything you believe in. Just being handed some money isn't the thing."

Voting Today on MonDroe $12.9M Library

Voters will decide today if the Town of MonDroe should spend $12.9 million to build a 40,000-square-foot home for the MonDroe Free Library and Town Hall.
Polling stations have been set up in two places: Kiryas Yoel residents will vote in the basement of the Ezras Choilim Medical Center on Forest Road; everyone else in MonDroe will cast ballots at the MonDroe Senior Center on Mine Road. Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

U/D: Wednesday
Kiryas Yoel voted 919-29 against the project. The rest of the town of MonDroe weighed in at 1,417 to 576 against it. Dirsctor of the Library blamed the Chasidic community and the MonDroe town supervisor.

Restoration of the Eldridge Street Shul

The synagogues of New York's Lower East Side
The first great house of worship built in America by Eastern European Jews.
How was this historic synagogue saved despite prohibitions against government funding to preserve houses of worship?

Queens +Mosquito Spraying Tonight+

To reduce mosquito activity, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) will spray pesticide from trucks in parts of the Rockaways, Bayswater, Queens from 8:30 P.M. tonight, June 20 to 6:00 A.M. on Tuesday, June 21

NYC police reportedly confirm ticket quotas

Two city police sergeants have testified they were ordered to meet a quota.

The testimony came during a closed door grievance hearing.
Sources say that one sergeant even produced a memo from a commander spelling out just how many traffic summonses and quality-of-life tickets they needed to give out to avoid getting a poor performance review.

Brooklyn. +BQE Traffic Alert+

Brooklyn. +BQE Traffic Alert+ B.Q.E. South bound traffic alert an MVA involving a truck VS an ambulette with several injured on the ambultte, numerous EMS and Highway units on the scene.

U/D:
Flushing Ave. Exit

Boston -- Protesters greet hundreds celebrating Israel's 57th anniversary

BOSTON -- For the fourth straight year, protesters greeted hundreds of people who gathered Sunday on Boston's City Hall Plaza to celebrate the 57th anniversary of Israel's independence.

Joining the protest was a group of Orthodox Jews from New York, who held signs that read, "Torah Forbids a Jewish State."

Will the Town of Woodbury give a builder his way, or will Kiryas Yoel get their way?

Bill Brodsky and another developer hope to build 450 homes and are planning costly water and sewer improvements that would benefit the town. All they ask in return is a simple zoning change, one that would let him build enough homes to make a profit. But the Rockland County developer also wishes to make known that there will be consequences if his project is derailed. "If it's not successful, and I can't work with the Town of Woodbury, what option does that leave me?" Brodsky asks. "I'm not going to be there. I'm going to sell out." The fear of an expanding Kiryas Yoel has become an abiding passion in Woodbury, especially since Chasidic developers bought a 140-acre farm just outside Kiryas Yoel last year. Since that watershed event, many worry the land around Kiryas Yoel will one day give way to the densely packed condominium buildings typical of the 1.1-square-mile village. "We really don't have active conversations right now with the Chasidic community about selling, but we've been approached, and we were approached again recently," he says. "There are only so many times that I can tell the other side I don't want to do business with them."

Judge Allows Yeshiva Suit in Ramapo

A state Supreme Court justice has rejected an outright dismissal of a lawsuit against Ramapo's adoption of special zones for "adult student housing" connected to religious schools.
In a decision released, acting Supreme Court Justice Francis Nicolai permitted two residents to continue their lawsuit against the town and dismissed the rights of four villages to sue.
The decision on the town's request to dismiss the case means that Ramapo cannot permit a yeshiva and 60 apartments planned on Grandview Avenue to be built until the lawsuit concludes.
Likewise, Ramapo cannot grant any approvals for construction in the three other adult student housing zones that were adopted last year by the Town Board.