Monsey +RMP MVA+

Monsey +RMP MVA+ On College Route and Route 59 a police car RMP involved in a MVA with a civilan vehicle, PD on scene requesting EMS for some injured.

Brooklyn +MVA With Pin+

Brooklyn +MVA With Pin+ Auto accident at East 7th St. And Ave V, PD on the scene with three aided confirmed pinned requesting ESU with a rush, FD working using the tool, East Midwood Vol. EMS on location.

Kiryas Yoel - A Split Voting Bloc

Kiryas Joel - For years, there was only one set of power brokers in this Chasidic community who could deliver thousands of votes on Election Day. But four or five years ago, a coalition of citizens opposed to this ruling caste and its chief rabbi coalesced and named itself the Kiryas Joel Alliance: a party with its own political endorsements and more than a thousand votes to wield.   Since then, both sides have jockeyed for power and prestige. The majority faction of Mayor Abraham Wieder has stayed well out in front at the polls. But this week, it felt the heat of the Alliance for the first time in a Monroe Town Board election.   The Alliance decided to throw its weight behind three Democratic challengers - a break from the last two town elections, when both Kiryas Yoel blocs backed the Republican incumbents and smothered an overwhelming desire in the rest of Monroe for new faces.   The Alliance move posed a genuine threat to the Wieder-backed Republicans. So the Karl Roves of Team Wieder came up with the ingenious strategy of campaigning at the last minute for a second slate of challengers - the SaveMonroe candidates - to peel off Democratic votes.   Phones started ringing in Monroe, playing a recording of a young woman reading what sounded like a sincere script.   "The only party that has not sold its soul to 'special interests' is SaveMonroe," she read.   Next, voters streaming to Monroe polling stations on Tuesday encountered homeless men hired to hand out bogus fliers supporting SaveMonroe and trumpeting the Alliance's support for the Democrats (a potential turn-off in Monroe).   Whether this tactic sealed the Republican victory is anyone's guess. Alicia Vaccaro, the Democratic candidate for supervisor, came within 380 votes of unseating Sandy Leonard.   How many votes do the two blocs now deliver? One gauge might be this year's county legislative contest, in which the Wieder faction outpolled the Alliance by roughly 2,750 to 1,600. (The Alliance believes deceptive fliers and other dirty tricks suppressed its totals.)   Even so, the Alliance-backed Democrats would almost certainly have trounced the incumbents in this week's Monroe Town Board race, if they'd been the only slate of challengers.   As it turned out, the SaveMonroe candidates won huge totals outside Kiryas Joel, more than the Democrats and far more than the Republicans. They did so despite being relegated to the Conservative Party ballot line.   The results also suggest that a fractured Kiryas Yoel vote can still swing close races, even those drawing from a much larger voting pool than Monroe.   For instance, there's Stewart Rosenwasser, who's about 1,000 votes ahead of Matthew Byrne in a state Supreme Court race before absentee ballots are counted. He angered both Kiryas Yoel factions with decisions he issued in recent weeks.   But by Election Day, all was forgiven. Both teams delivered, with 4,000 total votes.

Queens "Kusciusco Bridge Traffic Alert+

Queens "Kusciusco Bridge Traffic Alert+ A MVA with an overturned vehicle and pin on the B.Q.E. Near the Kusciusco Bridge and the L.I.E. PD on the scene requesting ESU and EMS to respond, traffic heavy in the area.

Borough Park +Electrical Fire+

Borough Park +Electrical Fire+ A fire in a Con-Ed electrical vault in the street at 1440 50th Street, FD on the scene reporting CO readings greater than 10,000 PPM, situation is DWH, 14 buildings tested and 7 have been evacuated by FD, Hatzolah, PD and Shomrim all working the scene, survey continues.

Bronx +Animal Rescue+

Bronx +Animal Rescue+ A goat is running around loose in the Bronx at 1713 Hammersley Ave and Gunther Ave near Haffen Park, PD reqesting ESU to help out and round up the loose goat.

U/D: 12:46
ESU has the goat in cusody

New Milford NJ +Missing Councilman+

New Milford NJ +Missing Councilman+ A search is going on since last night by New Milford Police Department for missing 81-year-old councilman Joseph Murray last seen about 19:00 hours last night in his grey Toyta rav 4, NJ TAG NJU61H, has an exiting medical condition.

Any information contatc the New Milford Police Department at 201-261-1400

Florida - +Bias Crime+ Houses, Cars Spray Painted

St. Augustine,FL, - There are more than 30 victims of vandalism on Laguna Court, eight houses, and 25 cars got spray painted in the neighborhood with swastikas and derogatory words.

Monsey - Wal-Mart Proposal Prompts Traffic Fears

Monsey - Word that a Wal-Mart Supercenter is planned at the former Rockland Drive-In Theater has people worried about the effect on area businesses and a further worsening of traffic in the Route 59 corridor.

Queens +Missing Elderly+

Queens +Missing Eldely+ An elderly patient male 83-years-old wearing a black and blue sweater gray pants has a yarmulka and is clean shaven, is missing, was lost about 11:15am this morning, was last seen on Jewel Ave, search is being coordinated by Hatzolah on 73rd Ave and 141st St.

U/D: 11:57
Patient has been found, search is canceled.

Brooklyn +Truck Hit Bridge+

Brooklyn +Truck vs Bridge+ Eastbound B.Q.E. Queens bound at exit 28A Cadman Plaza, a truck carrying a backhoe hit the structure overpass of the Manhattan Bridge the crane fell off from the truck, PD Highway units are on the scene, ESU responding to upright.

U/D: 09:41
Heavy delays in the area, roadway has been shut down.

Staten Island +Car Accident+

Staten Island +Car Accident+ A serious MVA near the Staten Island College and Victory Blvd. with multiple injuried Hatzolah on the scene requesting additional units to respond, Ambulance enroute.

Queens +Van Wyck Traffic Alert+

Queens +Van Wyck Traffic Alert+ Major traffic delays expected today on the Van Wyck Expressway at Jamaica Ave both directions due to some constuction complications, the contracor staes that all lanes of the highway will remain closed until about 10:00am today.

U/D: 07:54
Highway has been reopened in both directions.

Fire Affecting Brooklyn Phone Service

A manhole fire at Smith and Livingston Streets is affecting telephone service in parts of downtown Brooklyn.
Verizon repair crews still have not been able to access the damaged circuits in that manhole because of carbon monoxide concerns.
In the meantime, at least part of the NYS Court Complex at 120 Schemmerhorn Street has lost phone service. Technicians there are working to rig internet phone circuits as a temporary workaround.

There is no word yet on when the affected phone service will be restored, and no word on what caused the manhole fire.

Williamsburg +Serious Car Accident+

Williamsburg +Serious Car Accident+ A motor vehicle accident in Williamsburg on Flushing and Washington Ave's Hatzolah on the scene requasting a rush on the ambulance.

U/D 16:04
Hatzolah on the scene requesting more units to respond, and an additional ambulance, have four aided.

U/D: 16:19
ESU also on the scene.

CHICAGO - Nazi-Era Rail Car for Display

CHICAGO, Illinois - When Fritzie Fritzshall was 12, she and her family were
deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp from a Jewish ghetto in
what was then Czechoslovakia. Her grandfather did not survive the journey.
On Wednesday, the 67th anniversary of Germany's infamous Kristallnacht
pogrom, she and other Holocaust survivors gathered to unveil the remnants of a
Nazi-era rail car that will be displayed when the Illinois Holocaust Museum and
Education Center opens in suburban Skokie in 2008.
"It may be this many years later but the smell and the fear that was in that
box car, that has not left me, and I'm sure many survivors feel the same
way," Fritzshall said.

Monroe +Bank Armed Robbery+

Monroe +Bank Armed Robbery+ A W/M 6ft about 180lbs with blue shirt and a hat just robbed the Federal Savings Bank at 412 Route 17M with a gun, PD with K9, State Police and Hello all enroute.

U/D: 16:22
He fled with an unknown amount of cash, all in $50 and $100 bills as he demanded.

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Cops Get Hand-Held Info Gizmo

City cops now have more vital information in the palms of their hands.
The NYPD rolled out new hand-held technology devices yesterday that allow 130 patrol officers and detectives to access department records even in the field, for a six-month field test.

"We want to put as much high technology as possible literally into the hands of our officers," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

In seconds, cops can retrieve warrants, wanted photos, orders of protection and other records on the Panasonic devices.

Borough Prez Sues Exxon for Ruining Brooklyn Water

Fifty years after Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and City Council Members David Yassky moved to intervene as plaintiffs in Riverkeeper’s lawsuit against ExxonMobil for violating the federal Clean Water Act.
The international petroleum giant is being sued for its role in a 17 million gallon oil spill that stretches for 55 acres beneath Brooklyn. Oil continues to leak into Newtown Creek, polluting Greenpoint’s soil, groundwater, the Creek, the East River and the whole of Brooklyn’s waterfront. The spill courses through industrial, commercial, and residential property, affecting an estimated 100 homes and dozens of businesses. Heavy unrefined oil is visibly leaking into and contaminating the creek, which separates Brooklyn and Queens.

Lakewood - To Have First Orthodox Jewish Mayor

LAKEWOOD NJ - The man who stands to gain most from the Township Committee race this year wasn't on the ballot.But because Charles Cunliffe and Raymond G. Coles were re-elected Tuesday, the Democrats retain a 3-to-2 advantage on the committee. That means they will pick the mayor from their triumvirate.Cunliffe has the job this year. Coles had it last year.So now, Committeeman Meir Lichtenstein is poised to become the first Orthodox Jewish mayor in Lakewood, home to the state's largest community of Orthodox Jews.Lichtenstein confirmed Wednesday he will ask for the other committee members to appoint him mayor at the January reorganization meeting."The Orthodox community in Lakewood has grown from a very small community to a very large community quite quickly," Lichtenstein said. "So, yes, it is an honor."

Williamsburg +Water Main Break+

Williamsburg +Water Main Break+ Large water main break at Bedford Ave corner Flushing Ave, FD on the scene DEP has been notified of the water main break.

Williamsburg +B.Q.E. Traffic Alert+

Williamsburg +B.Q.E. Traffic Alert+ A disabled corrections bus with some prisoners on board on the eastbound of the B.Q.E. And Flushing Ave, one lane is closed, PD Highway units are requested to the scene, delays in the area.

Man Accused Of Kapparos Chicken Death Was Busted

A man from Williamsburg was charged with animal cruelty for causing the deaths of 35 chickens meant for slaughter in a kapparos ritual and keeping 307 more in squalid conditions with many of them covered in fecec and later showed evidence of parasites when they were found in a vacant lot at Coney Island Ave on Oct. 16

Williamsburg +M/D Fire+

Williamsburg +M/D Fire+ A fire in a multiple dwelling at 583 Flushing Ave between Lee Ave and Marcy Ave, FD and PD are on the scene reporting some injuries.

Flatbush +Overturned Vehicle+

Flatbush +Overturned Vehicle+ A MVA with an overturned auto and an RMP on Ocean Ave and Ave P, Hatzolah responding, ESU requested to upright.

U/D: 08:23
Hatzolah was canceled due to EMS being on the scene already.

Two Brooklyn Leaders To Directly Benefit From Mayor Bloomberg's Election Victory

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Councilman Simcha Felder is poised to take a job in the Bloomberg administration and Assemblyman Dov Hikind is considering running for Felder's vacant seat.

Felder wouldn't reveal what his new post in the mayor's office will be, but it could start as early as January, according to Felder's spokeswoman.

While Hikind said it was too early to talk of running for a vacant Felder seat, he said he was waiting to see what unfolded, "If the opportunity presents itself, I would certainly consider it," Hikind said.

French Jews Worry Violence May Spread

As France was plunged into a state of emergency after nearly two weeks of rioting by poor and disenfranchised immigrant youth, some Jewish leaders worried that the uprising could morph into anti-Semitic violence.
Many of the rioters are Arab Muslims, and the concern is that Islamic groups could exploit the situation, shifting the focus away from the domestic issues thought to have touched off the riots - racism, urban poverty and the failures in immigrant absorption - and toward the approximately 600,000 Jews in France.

In The Elections, The Dirty Trick Of The Year Came In Monroe

The ruling KY bloc is said to have distributed last-minute campaign literature feeding the anti-KY sentiment of many Monroe voters by urging them to vote for the SaveMonroe slate.   Follow us. Incumbent Republicans in Monroe had support of the KJ bloc vote. That was a given and is usually enough to bring victory. This year, though, the KJ Alliance, a group within the Hasidic village that opposes the ruling KY bloc, endorsed the Democratic slate in Monroe. SaveMonroe fielded its own third slate of candidates, with no major endorsements. The literature spread around town Tuesday urged votes for SaveMonroe as a vote against control by KY. It said, "Vote Republican, get KJ. Vote Democrat, get KJ-Lite." SaveMonroe said it wasn't them.   The intent clearly was to split the anti-KY vote and, more significantly, to direct votes away from the more-potent Democratic line to the longshot SaveMonroe line.   This is clever, to be sure.
But if the powers-that-be in Kiryas Yoel are going to purposely stir up resentment against themselves in order to gain political favor, how do they expect anyone to trust them or sympathize with them when others use anti-KY feelings as a political weapon in a more straightforward manner?

Hezbollah Militant Suspected In 1994 Argentina Attack

AIRES, Argentina -- The Argentine government identified a Hezbollah militant as the suicide bomber who detonated a van packed with explosives outside a Jewish community center in 1994, killing 85 people in Argentina's worst terrorist attack.

U/D: 11/10/05
Hezbollah denies carrying out the bombing of Athe rgentina Jewish center.

Queens Protesters Want Former Nazi Guard's Deported

Scores of students protested on 89th Street near Northern Boulevard in Jackson Heights, Queens this afternoon, demanding that a former guard at a Nazi forced labor camp be deported.
The protest, staged on the 67th anniversary of Kristalnacht, was in front of the home of Jayiw Palij, 81, who during World War II was a guard at the Trawniki forced labor camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.
On November 3, 1943, more than 6,000 men, women and children at Trawniki were shot to death. Federal officials did not accuse Palij of taking part in the atrocities, but claimed that as a guard, he contributed to the slaughter.
Palij entered the U.S. in 1949, falsely claiming he had worked on a Polish farm and in a German factory during the war. An immigration judge ordered him deported to the Ukraine in 2002. He is appealing the decision.

After protesting at Palij's home, the students, who arrived in two yellow buses, were driven to home another man, Jaroslaw Bilaniuk, now 82, who lives in Douglaston. The justice department filed a complaint against him December 26, 2002, alleging that he too trained for service at the Trawniki Training Camp. The government is seeking a judgment revoking his U.S. citizenship.

New Yorker Sign Gets Red

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The sign New Yorker, which refers to the New Yorker Hotel, at 481 Eighth Avenue and 34th Street, is in the process of trading in its white letters for red ones that can light up.

How Much Money Did Mayor Bloomberg Spend?

It may be a while before we learn exactly how much New York's billionaire mayor spent on his campaign for a second term. Mayor Michael Bloomberg's campaign had spent just under $67 million as of two weeks ago -- a level of spending usually reserved for a presidential candidate.

The mayor's spokesman, Stuart Loeser, declined to say how much the campaign had spent over the past two weeks. And he wouldn't say whether the final cost of Bloomberg's bid is likely to top the $74 million he spent in 2001, which equaled about $100 per vote.

No American mayor has ever spent so much running for re-election, and only a few politicians have approached that level for any office.

Jordan - Blast Hits Three Major Hotels, Al-Qaida Is Suspected.

AMMAN, Jordan - At least 60 people have been killed and 300 injured in three separate explosions at three hotels frequented by Westerners at the Grand Hyatt hotel, the Radisson SAS Hotel and a Days Inn Hotel in the Jordanian capital of Amman.

U/D: 11/10/05
A U.S. Embassy official says four Americans among the people killed.

Williamsburg +Bedford Gardens Bulding Fire+

Williamsburg +Bedford Gardens Bulding Fire+ A fire in Bedford Gardens 74 Ross St of Wythe Ave Building #2 U/M/D 6 story building, FD L-128 fast truck on the scene Hatzolah requested to Apt #2-C for reports of people trapped.

U/D: 12:01
Hatzolah on the scene requesting coordinator.

U/D: 12:09
FD searches are negative, fire will P/W/H.

Queensboro Bridge +Jumper Up+

Queensboro Bridge +Jumper Up+ At the 59th Street Bridge mid-span on the lower level PD ESU on the scene with a jumper on the edge of the bridge, Harbor and Aviation are responding.

U/D: 11:07
PD have the EDP in custody.

Monsey, NY - Payroll Tax Service Owner Sentenced On Tax Evasion And Fraud Charges

Owner of Monsey, NY payroll tax service, PAL Data Processing, Inc. was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison following his guilty plea to charges stemming from his theft of more than $2.3 million entrusted to him by dozens of corporations in order to satisfy their federal payroll tax obligations.
According to the charges, he started stealing his clients’ funds in 1998. After the clients advanced him the monies to pay the clients’ payroll tax obligations to the IRS, he took those funds for his own use in order to make personal trades in the stock market. As a result of those stock market trades, court records show, he lost more than $2.3 million and tried to cover up those losses by preparing and filing fraudulent payroll tax returns that falsely underreported and under-paid the clients’ payroll tax obligations.

Borough Park +Pedestrian Struck+

Borough Park +Pedestrian Struck+ An Accident in Borough Park at 13th Ave and 50th Street has a pedestrian struck Hatzolah requested.

Kiryas Yoel Ruling Party Launches 11th Hour Sly Campaign Yesterday

Monroe - Kiryas Yoel's ruling party appears to have launched an 11th-hour sly campaign blitz loaded with dark humor and deep irony to re-elect their allies on the Monroe Town Board, which surpasses in ingenuity an earlier effort to sink a Monroe village board candidate with a similar "kiss-of-death" strategy.
Monroe residents going to the polls yesterday have gotten recorded phone messages and fliers intended to drive voters away from the challengers that Kiryas Yoel's leadership must regard as the incumbents' biggest threat: the Democrats.
"Vote Republican, Get 'KJ,' " reads one flier handed out at polling stations today. "Vote Democrat, Get 'KJ-Lite' " Kiryas Yoel's leaders, recognizing their community's unpopularity with Monroe voters, have the political savvy and mordant humor to use that reputation to try to hinder the Democrats, one of two slates vying to unseat three longtime Republican board members.
Kiryas Yoel Administrator couldn't be reached so far today to discuss the sly campaign.

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Town of Fallsburg Election Roundup

In the Town of Fallsburg, where thousands of homes are proposed, write-in candidate Kenny DeMars' call for a building moratorium became an issue.
Incumbent Democrat Steve Levine, who was leading handily last night, was against it. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish voters from Brooklyn with second homes in Fallsburg launched a campaign to vote in a bloc for candidates who were against that moratorium. That vote may have helped defeat incumbent Town Councilman Joe Perrello who was losing to Democrats Neil Gilberg, the incumbent and Michael Weiner, who were backed by the bloc.

Monroe NY Race Results:

Supervisor:
Winner - Incumbent Sandy Leonard

Town Clerk:
Winner - Incumbent Mary Ellen

Town Justice:
Winner - Incumbent Jack J. Rosenthal

Councilman:
Winner - Incumbent Peter J. Martin
Winner - Incumbent Donald F. Weeks

Bloomberg Wins Mayor's Race In N.Y., Beating Ferrer By Wide Margin

Incumbent NYC Republican Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was reelected as mayor of New York City, with a decisive landslide victory, crushing Democratic Fernando Ferrer by nearly 20-point margin in a race that set records for campaign spending.

New Jersey Race for Governor: Results

East Brunswick, N.J. - The Associated Press is calling Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Corzine the winner in the New Jersey governors race over Republican Doug Forrester

GERMANY - Remains Of Holocaust Victims To Be Reburied

STUTTGART, GERMANY - German authorities Thursday issued an order for the re-burial of human bones found at Stuttgart Airport, after Jewish groups protested against the exhumation of the remains of apparent Holocaust victims.

Evidence suggests the remains were those of Jewish slave laborers who died of starvation and typhoid while forced to work in a Gestapo camp between November 1944 and February 1945, when the site was a Luftwaffe air strip during World War II.

Germany - Holocaust Denier Goes On Trial

Germany - The trial of the 66-year-old Ernst Zundel, one of the leading publishers of anti-Semitic and neo-nazi material, opened on Tuesday at the Mannheim court, in western Germany.

He is appearing for the first time before a court in his country of origin, and risks up to 5 years in prison.

He is accused of decades of anti-Semitic activity, including repeated denials of the Holocaust - a crime in Germany - in documents and on his internet “Zundelsite.”

JACKSBORO, Tenn. - Assistant Principal Shot By Student.

JACKSBORO, Tennessee. - A state education official says an assistant high school principal has died after being shot by a student 2 other adults are also shot.

Nanuet +Palisades Parkway Traffic Alert+

Nanuet +Palisades Parkway Traffic Alert+ Southbound of the Palisades Interstate Parkway at exit 9W entrance to the NY State Thruway, a multiple vehicle MVA with injuries, Nanuet Ambulance Corp and Rockland Paramedics are enroute, traffic very heavy.

Bronx/Yonkers +Major Deegan Traffic Alert+

Bronx/Yonkers +Major Deegan Traffic Alert+ A MVA on the Major Deegan Expressway southbound and McLean Ave between a car and a truck with one aided pinned, PD ESU and Yonkers PD are on the scene requesting three ambulances to come up the wrong side of the roadway on a rush, and FD also to respond forthwith.

U.S. - Jail Death Of Jewish Activist Probed

PHOENIX, AZ, United States - The killing of a Jewish Defense League leader in a Phoenix prison just days after his transfer from Los Angeles is being investigated by the FBI.

Brooklyn Bridge +Suspicious Package+

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Brooklyn Bridge +Suspicious Package+ At the Manhattan bound of the Brooklyn Bridge Police Department on the scene of a suspicious package, requesting ESU and PD Harbor units to respond.

U/D 12:13
Bomb squad enroute, EMS and FD staging at the mid-span of the bridge, Bridge being closed down.

U/D: 13:07
Package has been proper ID' d, bridge to reopen shortly.

Monsey - State Reviewing Autistic Man's Climb To Hamaspik's Rooftop

Monsey - A state agency is looking into the case of a 22-year-old autistic man who climbed to the roof of a Hamaspik of Rockland group home Sunday evening.
Deborah Rausch, a spokeswoman with the state Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, declined to offer specifics about the matter, but said, "The safety and welfare of the people we serve is of utmost importance to us, so we're going to look into this."

Meyer Wertheimer, executive director of both Hamaspik of Rockland County and Hamaspik of Orange County — nonprofit agencies that run local facilities for the developmentally disabled — said last night that he was confident the group home's staff did nothing wrong. Wertheimer said the man, whom neither he nor police would identify, was not a resident of the home. He was there, Wertheimer said, with his mother on a visit to help determine if the home "would fit his needs."

Pittsburgh Yeshiva School Closes In White Oak.

The Mesivta of Allegheny County, a boys-only high school for Orthodox Jews, has closed because of financial problems.

Monticello Passes Law To Limit Sullivan Landfill

Monticello - Last night, the Village of Monticello did what landfill opponents have been asking them to do for months: pass a law banning any future expansion of Sullivan's landfill.

State of Emergency Declared in France

President Jacques Chirac declared a state of emergency, paving the way for curfews to be imposed on riot-hit cities and towns in an extraordinary measure to halt France's worst civil unrest in decades after 12 nights of violence.

Manhattan +Traffic Delays Harlem River Drive+

Manhattan +Traffic Delays Harlem River Drive+ A 2 car accident on the northbound Harlem River Drive approching the George Washington Bridge, NYPD Highway units and FD are on the scene.

Queens +Kosciuszko Bridge Traffic Alert+

Queens +Kosciuszko Bridge Traffic Alert+ A serious multi vehicle accident on the eastbound of the B.Q.E. And the Queens side of the Kosciuszko Bridge which is involving 2 cars and 2 trucks, driver of tractor trailor is trapped, all services enroute, roadway is closed down.

Rockaway Boulevard Traffic Alert

A deadly crash on Rockaway Boulevard in Queens is causing major delays this morning. One person was pronounced dead on the scene and only the left lane is open near JFK Airport.

Spring Valley +Car Into Building+

Spring Valley, Rockland County +Car Into Building+ At 156 Route 59 FD on the scene of a car that went into a building, no word on injuries.

Brooklyn +Pedestrian Struck+

Brooklyn +Pedestrian Struck+ An accident with a pedestrian struck on Ave I and McDonald, Hatzolah requested.

Monticello Bank Robbed This Morning

Monticello police say a man made off with about $4,000 in a hold-up of the Key Bank on Broadway in Monticello this morning

Two suspects are being questioned by police this afternoon.

Ramapo Cop Saves Monsey Man On Rooftop

Sgt. Robert Lancia went to East Concord Drive. What Lancia found was a 22-year-old man with autism who had climbed atop the Hamaspik of Rockland group home and refused to come down.

Eventually, a firefighter with the Monsey Fire Department and a member of Chaverim, a neighborhood assistance program, joined Lancia on the roof. The three circled the man, and the Chaverim member, Jack Rosenberg, offered his hand to the man for a handshake. The man shook it.

So Lancia offered his hand, too.

When the man took it, Lancia pulled him in, embracing him in a hug.

"He didn't put up a fight," Lancia said. Lancia, Rosenberg and the firefighter, Chaim Neiman, and other rescue workers lowered the man onto a garage rooftop and then to the ground, where help - from the Ramapo Police Department, the Monsey Fire Department, Chaverim and Hatzoloh - was waiting. The man, Lancia said, was uninjured and didn't require medical attention.

Kiryas Yoel +Pedestrian Struck+

Kiryas Yoel Monroe +Pedestrian Struck+ A serious accident in Kiryas Yoel with entrapment at Zenta Road and Carter Lane, aided F/W in her 40's is trapped under the vehicle a delivery truck - registered to the Congregation of Bnai Yoel, Inc. - for about 30 min's extrication in progress.

U/D: 15:54
Aided female has been extricated by KJ Fire Deprt. From under the car, KJ Hatzolah getting ready to transport to Arden Hill Hospital in traumatic arrest.

U/D: 15:59
Aided has been pronounced DOA by Hatzolah Medics on the scene A.I. underway.

Orange +NYS Thruway Traffic Alert+

Orange +NY State Thruway Traffic Alert+ A brush fire at the NY State Thruway northbound near Tuxedo, FD responding, heavy delays in the area.

Shimon Lefkowitzs Is Very Frustrated He Fed The Meter And Still Got Ticketed, Because Of Being Net To A Pedestrian Path

"I'm not the angry type, but I was so incensed because it wasn't necessary," said Lefkowitz who got slapped with a $165 summons while shopping.

"This is very, very frustrating. I did the right thing," Lefkowitz said. "I fed the meter. Why would they have a meter next to a pedestrian path?"

Lefkowitz said a testy traffic agent ticketed his vehicle "She didn't even look at me the whole time she wrote the ticket," said Lefkowitz, "I asked her to get a supervisor but she brushed me off, "Her whole attitude was 'that's it,' and she drove off."

It's becoming both confusing and expensive for Brooklyn motorists to park. In May 2004, it was uncovered a similar meter blunder in Park Slope, where drivers were getting $115 tickets for parking too close to fire hydrants, even though they were in a legally metered spot.

Torah That Survived Nazis Finds Home In St. Louis

St. Louis dentist Ethan Schuman could hardly contain his excitement as he watched the elderly Polish man return from his attic carrying a large, heavy bag.

Standing in the doorway of the old house, Schuman opened the bag and then he saw the scroll, which was probably at least two centuries old.

Schuman was in the village of Ishbitz, Poland, two years ago. For more than 60 years, the sacred scroll had been hidden in the attic of a non-Jew, in a modest block and stucco house in Ishbitz.

Williamsburg - Steiner Studios Pushing To Double Their Facilities

Williamsburg - movie moguls are pushing to double or even triple the size of the waterfront Steiner Studios — making the city's so-called Hollywood East a Los Angeles rival.
Sources said honchos with Brooklyn's year-old, $120 million Steiner Studios are talking with the city to grow from a five-stage, 15-acre facility into as many as 50 acres.

Fight Between Members Over The Sale Of The Yonkers Synagogue

YONKERS - Greenburgh Hebrew Center petitions the state Supreme Court for permission to sell the Midchester Jewish Center building, and about 90 percent of Midchester's 144 members joined the Greenburgh Hebrew Center at 515 Broadway in Dobbs Ferry, according to court papers. In its court filing, the Greenburgh Hebrew Center said it would use the $2.2 million in sales proceeds to clear the building, pay severance to former Midchester employees, reduce a bank loan made to the Greenburgh synagogue and create a Midchester endowment that after five years could be used for any purpose.

In letters to the attorney general, some opponents allege that the Greenburgh Hebrew Center improperly approved the proposed use of $2.2 million it will get from Midchester's sale, Midchester's members did not get to approve the sale, none of the sale's proceeds will benefit Yonkers' Jewish community, and former Midchester congregants believed that they could continue using the synagogue for prayer services, which they can't.

Town of Monroe +Considering Tax Hike+

Town of Monroe +Considering Tax Hike+ The Town of Monroe Board is considering a tax hike for the average tax bill $40 to $95, according to town figures. At the upper end is a $95.27 increase for a village resident with a home assessed at $75,000.   The calculations include a flat fee for garbage pickup, which will decrease by $3.59 next year. The fee applies to all residents except those in Kiryas Yoel.   The spending plan includes a $124,995 increase for the Monroe Free Library, which is subject to a referendum.   If approved, that increase would bring the library's portion of the budget to just more than $1 million.   The vote tomorrow will be the first in which Kiryas Yoel residents don't participate. Their village has pulled out of the Monroe library to create its own, promising the town $70,000 next year and more money the next two years.

Supporters of Casino at Monticello Push Pataki for Approval

ALBANY, N.Y. Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Chiefs Barbara Lazore and Lorraine White, along with Sullivan County officials and residents supporters of a Caskills casino, will be in Albany today to call on Governor Pataki to take the last step needed to approve a casino at Monticello Raceway. The application for the casino needs Pataki's signature.

In September, a Pataki spokesman said the governor was waiting for the tribe to choose a site.

Town of Monroe +Hit and Run+

Town of Monroe +Hit and Run+ A MVA with injuries at Route 105 and Larkin Drive, PD on the scene requesting FD and EMS, striking vehicle fled the scene of the accident.

Flatbush +Armed Robbery+

Flatbush +Armed Robbery+ A perp armed with a handgun robbed an ice cream store in Flatbush at Nostrand Ave and Ave L, PD K-9, ESU and Flatbush Shomrim are all working the scene.

U/D: 20:02
Perp in custody.

Thunderstorm Watch

Severe thunderstorm watch through 2200 with heavy damaging winds for Orange, Putnam and Sullivan Counties.

Monroe +Working Restaurant Fire+

Monroe +Working Restaurant Fire+ At 1501 Route 17-M and Still Road a fire under the deep fryer at McDonalds Restaurant, Monroe and Woodbury FD's responding, Harriman standing by for cover.

Ramapo N.Y. Turns To Wind Power As An Alternative Energy Source

The Ramapo N.Y. Town Board this week agreed to purchase 5% of its yearly energy expenditure from Community Energy Inc. in the form of wind power, an increasingly common alternative energy source that many communities in New York now use as a portion of their energy budget.

Borough Park +Pedestrian Struck+

Borough Park +Pedestrian Struck+ A MVA with a female pedestrian 35 years old struck in Boro Park on 11th Ave and 48th Street has the aided unconscious, Hatzola EMS on the scene.

Bronx +Major Deegan Traffic Alert+

Bronx +Major Deegan Traffic Alert+ A NYPD RMP is involved in a MVA on the MVA on the Major Deegn Expressway and 138th St, Detail Duty Captain on the scene requesting several ambulances.

Phoenix, Arizona - Jewish Inmate Killed In Prison

Phoenix, Arizona - Jewish Defense League member Earl Krugel imprisoned for 20-years for his role in a terrorist plot to bomb a mosque and the office of an Arab-American congressman was killed Friday night at a federal prison in Phoenix by a fellow inmate, an F.B.I. spokesman said.

U/D: 11/07/05
The authorities have launched an investigation into the killing, that he had received death threats because of his militancy and needed more protection.