Kiryas Yoel - Family Dispute Involves 7 Kids

Kiryas Joel, Monroe - State Troopers arrived at an apartment building on Lizensk Boulevard Thursday night for what appeared to be a domestic dispute between Youssef and Sanaa Alnahari that had somehow aroused a lot of attention.
They arrested three men who allegedly forced their way into the Alnahari apartment to berate the 27-year-old mother, Sanaa, and two women who have been helping her.

Felony burglary charges were filed against Israel Grunhut, 27; Issac Weinstock, 29; and Israel Rolnitsky, 44. The three Kiryas Joel men were briefly held in the Orange County Jail in Goshen until each posted $25,000 cash bail.
Barbara Strauss, a Goshen lawyer representing the 29-year-old husband, Youssef, in his pending custody battle with his wife said, "It would be nice if everyone got out of Mr. and Mrs. Alnaharis' business. It's just a sad situation."

What keeps drawing crowds to the Alnaharis' basement apartment, is the presence of two women determined to help the wife: Yocheved Mauda, a Yeminite immigrant who lived in Kiryas Joel for 17 years; and Rina Birnbaum, an Israeli immigrant who lives in New City.
They have shuttled her to the state police barracks to file complaints against her husband and also to Family Court, where they helped her petition for custody.
The husband, meanwhile, has told police and the court that his wife suffered post-partum depression and threatened suicide before she was committed to a New York City hospital last year.

In Kiryas Joel, residents familiar with the situation believe Mauda and Birnbaum are trying to spirit Sanaa Alnahari and her children off to Israel. Satmar members regard Israel as an abomination and a secular society.

Israel +PM Sharon's Condition Worsens

Jerusalem, Israel - The Jerusalem hospital caring for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that his condition has worsened Saturday. He went for surgery and doctors had to remove part of his intestines, and he has now been returned to the intensive care unit.

Kiryas Joel Cemetery Court Case

Kiryas Joel, Monroe - In the high profile case regarding the KJ Cemetery, Judge Stewart A. Rosenwasser ruled that there is no proof that B. Friedman was ever properly expelled, therefor he is the legitimate president of the Satmar religious corporation and he rightfully controls corporate decision-makings.

U/D: 02/13/06 17:04
They went in front of a judge asking for an emergency Stay, but the judge denied it for now.

Iraq - New Deadline For Kidnapped American

Iraq - Kidnappers of American journalist Jill Carroll have set a Feb. 26 final deadline for their demands to be met or they will kill her.

Rabbi Kass The Chaplains of the N.Y.P.D.

Rabbi Alvin Kass, the department's chief chaplain, who was sworn in 40 years ago.

FDNY's Response Time Slows Again By 14 Seconds

New York City firefighters took 14 seconds longer to get to a burning building, and the number of civilians who died in fires jumped dramatically from 14 to 22 just during the first months of this year compared to the previous year.

New York City +Blizzard Watch+

New York City +Blizzard Watch+ A blizzard watch is in effect from Saturday afternoon through Sunday morning, Heavy snow maybe up to one foot is possible, along with high wind gusts up to 50 MPH will make travel difficult if not impossible.

Kiryas Yoel +Fight and Arrest+

Kiryas Yoel, Monroe +Fight and Arrest+ New York State Police were called late last night to suppress a large fight and assault claims between two Yemenis families on Lisansk Blvd. and Schunnemunk Road, police brought the fight under control after arresting 3 people from the two families.

NYC Police Notified Immigration After Complaint of Harassment Against Them, Lawsuit Said

New York City - A Palestinian Arab living in the country illegally has filed a federal lawsuit claiming that the New York Police Department notified immigration authorities in retaliation for a complaint he filed in 2003 with the Civilian Complaint Review Board - which investigates alleged police misconduct - that an NYPD officer harassed him.

The chief spokesman for the police department, Paul Brown, denied that the complaint was connected to his arrest by federal immigration authorities. "The NYPD does not report anyone based solely on their immigration status," he said.

Flatbush +Private Dwelling 2nd Alarm Fire+

Flatbush +Private Dwelling 2nd Alarm Fire+ A 2nd alarm fire in Flatbush at 1782 & 1786 East 18th and Avenue R, in the basment and on the top floor of a 20x40 two story private dwelling, FD on the scene, Hatzolah on the scene requesting additional units and ALS to respond with a rush, Hazolah setting up command post.

U/D: 20:29
An additional fire across the street in an 3 story private dwelling at 1801 East 18th Street, FDNY is now calling for a 3 Alarm and fire is DWH.

Hatzolah asking no additional units to the scene.

U/D: 21:18
FDNY is reporting that at all 3 fires, secondary searches are complete and negative, and they place all 2 fires U/C.

Monsey +Motor Vehicle Accident+

Monsey +Motor Vehicle Accident+ A MVA between two vehicles on Route 306 and Phillis Terrace, Hatzolah on the scene requesting additional units to respond and a bus.

Flatbush +Suspicious Package+

Flatbush +Suspicious Package+ NYPD 61st Pct Sgt. is calling for a level one mobilization to 2518 East 24th Street between Avenue Y and Z for a suspicious package of a poss bomb in a basenent of above location and a threat that was made, requesting Bomb Squad and ESU.

Flatbush +Pedestrian Struck+

Flatbush +Pedestrian Struck+ A motor vehicle accident on East 18th Street and Avenue K, has Hatzolah on the scene requesting NYPD to respond.

Queens - Firefighter Steals From Fellow Firefighter

Queens - A firefighter from Engine 320 was busted this for stealing a $125 gift card from computer store P.C. Richards, from a fellow firefighter's locker.

The firefighter, who joined the department last May, used the gift card to buy more than $125 worth of computer merchandise, and used his own credit card to pay the balance. P.C. Richards workers were able to track him down because he used his own credit card.

Tenafly Not Sure Yet How To Pay For Eruv Suit Settlement

Tenafly - The borough will decide next week how it will pay a settlement reached in a legal battle over an eruv issue.

The mayor said that the council is expected to approve using cash reserves for a portion of the $325,000 in legal fees to the Tenafly Eruv Association and the borough's insurance will cover one-third, or about $110,000, of the amount and the remaining $215,000 will come from tax reserves that the borough routinely sets aside, but "It will not affect taxes," he said.

From the start of the lawsuit until the borough voted to allow the eruv in January, the borough has spent about $200,000 in legal fees..

Spring Valley +Attempted Armed Robbery+

Spring Valley +Attempted Armed Robbery+ A robber with a silver hand gun out of his pocked ringed the bell at the Polo Jewelry store to be let in, at 180 Route 59 between Dutch Lane and Smith Street, but the jewelry store employee didn't buzz back the door for the perp. Perp put back the gun into his pocket and fled on foot westbound on Route 59 in the direction of Auto Zone. Spring Valley PD are canvassing for a male black 5'5'' with a yellow cap and a light blue jacket with blue jeans.

Borough Park +Pedestrian Struck+

Borough Park +Pedestrian Struck+ A MVA with a pedestrian female that was struck by a van and is under the vehicle on 42nd Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway, Hatzolah on the scene canceling ALS units, ESU enroute responding.

U/D: 13:54
Hatzolah transporting patient to the hospital in good condition.

Williamsburg +Motor Vehicle Accident+

Williamsburg +Motor Vehicle Accident+ A MVA vehicle into fire hydrant with aided female pinned in front of 99 Harrison Avenue corner Lynch Street, has the NYPD of the 90th Pct requesting ESU Trk-8 with the Hurst tool and EMS.

U/D: 13:14
ESU Truck-8 on the scene with extrication in progress for 2 Aided with non life threatening injuries.
Harrison Avenue between Lynch and Middleton Street's is closed.

It Is Easy To Be Jewish In Marlboro

Marlboro, NJ - Township has the highest concentration of Jewish families in western Monmouth County.

Queens +Major Delivery On L.I.E. W/B+

Queens +Major Delivery On L.I.E. W/B+ On the service road of the Long Island Expressway near 108th Street NYPD Highway Units and EMS have a mother that just delivered a healthy baby boy in good condition in the ambulance, Highway giving escort to St. John's Hospital.

Albany - City's Worker Gets Fired, After Mayor Seeing Card Game On His Office Computer

Albany - A worker for the New York City, as a lobbying agent in the states capitol was fired after Mayor Bloomberg got enraged when he saw a solitaire card game on his office computer.
The worker got fired from his $30,000-a-year job after the mayor made a rare visit to the office a few blocks from the Capitol, and spotted the game on the employee's computer, Bloomberg - known for his strict work requirements - was fuming.

Orlando - Rabbi May Sue County For Damages

Orlando, FL - A federal judge opened the legal doors last week for Rabbi Joseph Konikov to sue Orange County for damages over the county's four-year battle to keep him from conducting religious services in his home.
His (Nelson) would not say how much the rabbi would pursue in a lawsuit, but he said the rabbi and his family were put under financial distress from fighting the case in court and from the $50,000 in liens the county imposed on their home.
Assistant County Attorney Gary Glassman could not be reached for comment, but he earlier said the case was never about religion, that the county was responding to neighborhood complaints.

Staten Island +MVA Leads To Weapons Recovery+

Staten Island +MVA Leads To Weapons Recovery+ A serious motor vehicle accident with a van into a tree in front of 888 Targee Street about midnight, led to a large weapons recovery inside the van driven by an D.O.T. employee.
After emergency medical units and the NYPD finished extricating the victim from the vehicle they recovered numerous automatic weapons in the auto among them were a tommy gun, a pump action shot gun and numerous high powered hunting rifles with sniper scopes. Some of the rifles had wood finish, some had camouflage covering. ESU was still searching and investigating the vehicle when the victim was being transported to the hospital.

Aided will be under arrest for D.W.I.

Brooklyn +Home Invasion+

Brooklyn +Home Invasion+ NYPD of the 66th Pct and Shomrim Patrol units are on the scene at 708 Avenue M and East 7th Street of a home invasion robbery in a private house by 2 black males with masks, perps fled location ukn direction of travel, Squad requested to location.

LA Mesa, CA (San Diego) +Mid Air Collision+

LA Mesa, CA (San Diego) +Mid Air Collision+ A mid air collision between a small plane and a military helicopter above Harry Griffin Park, 2 are confirmed DOA, with a large building on fire and debris all over.

U/D: 21:06
Likely more than 2 DOA's, in building due to structure being fully involved.

Washington, DC +Senate Bldg. Hazmat Alarm+

Washington, DC +Hazmat Alarm Senate Building+ DC Fire Dept and Hazmat Units are enroute to assist Capital PD for possible presence of a nerve agent, multiple sensors activated in the U.S. Senate Office Buidling, possible decon would be needed.

U/D: 20:17
All tests were negative(all that was needed was a battery change.

Queens +Disturbance On Airplane+

Queens +Disturbance On Airplane+ NYPD and PAPD were requested to stage at Laguardia Airport for an incoming flight due to arrive at 16:30 hours, with a disturbance on board, staging area is at the runway.

U/D: 17:24
The police have completely surrounded this plane. At this point, you can see the jetway where people get off the plane. They have brought in a stairway up to that jetway.

Law enforcement officials have boarded this Spirit Airlines plane out of Fort Lauderdale.

U/D: 17:37
Disturbance happened after a female passenger attempted to open an exit door of the aircraft, during the flight, PAPD now on board.

U/D: 02/09/06 11:39
The female passenger is in custody.

NY - Off-Duty Officer Who Was Shot Dies

New York City - An off-duty police officer who was shot in a case of mistaken identity by friendly fire, died this afternoon at St. Barnabas Hospital.

An on-duty patrolman shot Eric Hernandez, 24, in each leg and the stomach on Jan. 28, the shooting stemmed from a dispute between Hernandez - who had been drinking and was in street clothes - and several other men at a fast-food restaurant.

After being surrounded and severely beaten, the dazed officer pulled a gun on a man in the restaurant's parking lot before being shot by the patrolman. The shooter, Alfredo Toro, had no way of knowing Hernandez was a police officer and fired only after Hernandez refused orders to drop his weapon.

Manhattan +Floater In Hudson River+

Manhattan +Floater In Hudson River+ Report from the Parks Dept and confirmed by NYPD ESU that they have a body DOA in a bag floating northbound in the Hudson River between piers in the Cove area near Charles Street and Pier #45, NYPD Harbor Units and FDNY Marine Units are all enroute for the removal of the body.

Mayor Of Roosevelt Ousted Over Yeshiva Flap

Roosevelt - By a vote of 276 to 66, not including 28 absentee ballots, Mayor Neil Marko was recalled from office in a special election Tuesday.

"This is basically kind of what I expected," Marko said after the results were tallied. "This was an orchestrated political event. "The fact that I could get this group of evil people to hate me, I must have been doing something right."

Marko has said the recall issue arose simply because he supports a controversial proposal to house a high school for Orthodox Jewish boys at the town's synagogue, where he was president of the trustees. The yeshiva began operating in September. "As I've said, this is all about the yeshiva," Marko repeated Tuesday night.

Maryhelen Hannigan, who lives across the street from the yeshiva on Homestead Lane, said she voted to recall Marko and to have Battel replace him. "You can't have state and church together; they're two separate entities," said Hannigan, saying Marko should not have got involved in the yeshiva issue.

Israeli Orthodox Jews Birthrates Highest Levels Ever

American researcher Bennet Zimmerman's team has released a study that birthrates among Israeli Orthodox Jews are at their highest levels ever and that general Israeli Jewish fertility over the past five years has risen above top scenarios first considered by Israel's Bureau of Statistics.
Under Zimmerman's mid-case scenario, Israeli Jews maintain current fertility rates and immigration averages of 20,000 per year or 400,000 over two decades.

NYC - East River Got Raw Sewage During Blackout

NYC - This is something about the 2003 Blackout that we didn't know about: The city dumped 30 million gallons of "untreated human waste" into the East River because the Department of Environmental Protection's backup generators didn't work, department officials admitted that backup power systems in some of the city's sewage treatment plants that should have kicked in immediately after the lights went out in August 2003 did not function properly.
Without electricity to run the pumps, thousands of gallons of wastewater were dumped into New York waterways, forcing the closing of city beaches and increasing the amount of fecal coliform, or human waste, in the water to unsafe levels.

A federal judge of the United States District Court has put the city agency under probation for three years, and this is the "latest embarrassment" for the DEP, joining the "mercury in drinking water reservoirs" and "employees who ignore laws" incidents in the DEP's recent history.

Officials now admit that employees knew that the diesel-powered generators at the wastewater treatment plant in Red Hook, Brooklyn, had not worked for two years.

Germany - Holocaust Denier Zundel's Trial Resumes

Berlin - The trial of Ernst Zundel, a far-right activist accused of denying the Holocaust, was to resume Thursday after a break during which Iran has sought to cast doubt on the Nazi genocide and debate has opened over the West's commitment to free speech.

German authorities accuse Zundel, a longtime Canadian resident, of decades of anti-Semitic activities, including repeated denials of the Holocaust, a crime in his native Germany and some other European countries.

Zundel, 66, who was deported from Canada last year, was due back in Mannheim state court on Thursday, where he faces charges of incitement, libel and disparaging the dead. He faces a maximum five years in jail if convicted.

Canarsie +Hebrew Society School Being Evacuated+

Canarsie +Hebrew Society School Being Evacuated+ FDNY and EMS are on the scene at 9502 Seaview Avenue and East 95th Street at the Hebrew Educational Society School with an odor of gas inside the school from a Verizon truck leaking fuel in front of the building.
EMS is transmitting a 10-32 and a 10-80 (Hazmat Incident) for approximately 30 pediatric students for exposure to fumes, 5-Mary car requested to the scene.

Brooklyn +Overturned T/T B.Q.E. Eastbound+

Brooklyn +Overturned Box Truck B.Q.E. Eastbound+ A Box truck overturned on the eastbound of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway at Tillary Street, NYPD ESU and FDNY units are on the scene reporting no pin, EMS heading in for aided with minor injuries, Heavy tow requested to upright the box truck, expect heavy delays. All lanes closed at this time.

Albany - Teen Falls Out Bus Window On Thruway

Albany - A New York City teenager fell out the window of a moving bus while using the restroom Tuesday and landed on the New York State Thruway.
State police said Jose Gonzales, 17, lost his balance when the chartered bus swerved to change lanes.
Gonzales fell onto the shoulder of the thruway near Exit 23 southbound.

Ramapo Stops Yeshiva Construction

Ramapo - Concerns about the potential presence of asbestos have led the town to halt work at the site for Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim with 60 apartments for adult students.
The dozen 900-square-feet homes on the site have already been demolished. Piles of debris on the 4.7-acre site cannot be moved and other work there cannot resume until the town gets answers to the asbestos question.

Dennis Lynch, a Nyack attorney representing the Yeshiva, said the issue of asbestos, had been addressed a decade ago when the group bought the place.

At that time, the site, which is on the south side of Grandview Avenue, was within the village of New Hempstead. The settlement of a federal discrimination lawsuit against the village, brought over the yeshiva plan, resulted in the site being annexed to the unincorporated town.

A permit for the $20,000 demolition of the buildings was issued by Ramapo on Jan. 30. The project's building permit, issued on Dec. 15, has since been updated with a higher construction cost. Originally estimated by the developers at $6 million, for which a $54,046 permit fee was paid, the cost was increased by the Building Department to $8,399,755 based on the number of square feet. The increase boosted the permit fee to $75,617, according to Building Department records.

Brooklyn Homes Prices Go Thru Roof

Brooklyn - In the average home prices were surging 35% last year. The average price of a Brooklyn home is now $478,000 - a whopping $124,000 increase from last year.

Fulani Fires Back At Independence Party Leaders Who Reduced Her Power

New York - On Saturday, the Independence party leaders voted to dismantle three county committees from Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx due to inflammatory comments by party chair Fulani made about Jews.
Fulani again refused to denounce them, and tried to turn the tables.
“We are not going to back down from all of these smoke screens, regardless of this illegal violation of minority voting rights, because that's what this party is involved in,” said Fulani.
Fulani claims that they yanked power from the three boroughs with the largest black and Latino populations because they want to make it an all-white party. And she's going to sue to get her control back.

Flatbush +Pedestrian Struck+

Flatbush +Pedestrian Struck+ A motor vehicle accident with a pedestrian that was struck on East 5th Street between Avenue's S and T, Hatzolah on the scene.

Flatbush +Missing Person+

Flatbush +Missing Person+ Flatbush Shomrim are doing a citiwide search for a 48-year-old person who is missing for a couple of hours, searching all hospitals, comand center set up at 2436 Nostrand Avenue.

Brooklyn +Investigation Ducks and Geese Killed+

Brooklyn +Investigation Ducks and Geese Killed+ between 20 to 30 ducks and geese were killed on Flatbush Avenue near Kings Plaza, south of Avenue V. Parks Dept and CACC are on the scene investigating but they are uncertain exactly how they were killed, traffic in the area is a standstill for many city blocks.

Rockland +N/B & S/B Thruway Shut Down+

South Spring Valley, Rockland County +N/B & S/B Thruway Shut Down+ A serious MVA between a tractor trailer and a vehicle with one vehicle rolled over into the trees with entrapment on the New York State Thruway at M/M 24.6 with injuries, Stat Flight Air-1 with a 8 minute ETA, all lanes south bound and northbound are shut down.

Dutch Museums Must Return 202 Artworks to Heirs of Jewish Owner

The Dutch National Art Collection must give 202 artworks to the heirs of Jacques Goudstikker, a Jewish gallery owner who fled the Netherlands ahead of the advancing Nazis in World War II and abandoned his possessions.

Goudstikker died while trying to escape to the U.S. in 1940. "His loss of possession during the war must be considered involuntary," a spokeswoman for the Restitutions Committee, said today. The committee advises on restitution of property lost, stolen or looted in World War II.

'It's always a shame when we lose one of our paintings because they're all important pieces," Rijksmuseum spokesman Boris de Munnick in an interview today. "I think it's important the family take their time to decide what to do."

Williamsburg +Child Struck+

Williamsburg +Child Struck+ A motor vehicle accident, with a pedestrian that was struck by truck on Bedford Avenue and Ross Street, Hatzolah on the scene requesting ALS to respond.

Is Rivington Street Synagogue Coming Down?

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Manhattan - The First Roumanian-American Congregation Synagogue, "Is the Rivington Synagogue coming down, Brick by bring work started early this morning.

Workers on the roof, are dismantling the facade brick-by-brick. The care with which they're removing each brick offers some hope that restoration might be in the cards, or that they might just be lowering the roof line, but with a big demolition sign slapped across the front of the place, the hope is dim.

Liberty - Councilman Charged With DWI For Second Time In A Month

Liberty - A town councilman here spent the past weekend in jail following his second arrest for driving while intoxicated in less than a month.

Sean Hanofee, a councilman in the Sullivan County town of Liberty, was charged with DWI after he refused to take a breath test, authorities said.

Police stopped Hanofee after an officer who suspected the councilman's license was suspended for a previous DWI charge spotted him driving his pickup truck.

Hanofee was arraigned and sent to Sullivan County Jail without bail. He was expected to appear in Liberty Village Court on Tuesday.

Alice Greenwald As Director Of 9-11 Museum

A director at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was named Tuesday to head the museum that will commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Alice M. Greenwald will oversee the creation of the World Trade Center Memorial Museum, an underground gallery of exhibits planned next to the memorial that marks the destroyed twin towers' footprints. Groundbreaking is scheduled for next month; the museum and memorial are slated to open in 2009.

Woodbury +Traffic Delays Due To Major Accident+

Woodbury +Traffic Delays Due To Major Accident+ A major accident on the NY State Thruway at M/M 42.3, 2 miles south of exit 16, involving two tractor trailers and multiple vehicles involved with a few fatal and over 100 gallons of fuel spilled on the roadway.

Tractor trailer came from the southbound lanes into the northbound struck 4 vehicles head-on with some with children in them, 2 Medivacs to report the scene but one got canceled, NYSP also requesting the County Coroners to respond and full Hazmat is also assigned, M/A Engine from Tuxedo and additional ALS and BLS to the scene.

U/D: 13:43
Northbound Thruway is closed.

Medivac Helo has just lifted off.

U/D: 16:08
Four people, including a Rochester couple and their 4-year-old son, were killed in the chain-reaction crash involving a Range Rover and a tractor-trailer.
The couple and their son were pronounced dead at the scene while the truck driver, who was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center, died following the 12:41 p.m. accident, authorities said.

Northbound Thruway remains closed

Spring Valley +Day Care Center Fire+

Spring Valley +Day Care Center Fire+ A working structure fire on the 2nd floor thru the roof at the I.R.C. Child Day Care Center at 95 North Main Street with heavy smoke showing and children trapped on the roof, M/A from Hillcrest as Ladder, Monsey as the fast team and additional units from South Spring Valley a pumper and manpower. Spring Hill EMS requesting several BLS units to respond, and an M.C.I. to be transmitted.

U/D: 11:32
2nd Alarm transmitted

Fire started from roofing material on the roof.

All children are out and accounted for with out injury.

Ellenville, NY +Single Family Dwelling On Fire+

Ellenville, NY +Single Family Dwelling On Fire+ A working attic fire on a single family dwelling under construction at Westwood Drive in Ellenville, NY, CMD on the scene.

U/D: 11:23
Fire is K/D. requesting Fire Investigation Team to the scene.

Bronx Zoo, The Elephant Exhibit Might Shut Down

The Bronx Zoo, the only zoo left in the city that keeps elephants, said that it planned to shut down its exhibit after the death of two of its three elephants, or even one.

The zoo's three elephants are in their mid-30's and could live for decades more. But if one elephant dies, the remaining two may not get along. And if two die, officials say it would be inhumane to sustain an exhibit with a single
elephant.

NYPD's Expansion Of Real Time Crime Center

New York City - A room in One Police Plaza is allowing police to keep tabs on New York in "real time."
Allowing officers access to satellite images from space and images from dozens of cameras posted throughout the city, the Real Time Crime Center "has quickly become a powerful tool in our efforts to protect New Yorkers and make the safest big city in the nation even safer," Mayor Bloomberg said at a press conference announcing the expansion of the center.
In the not so distant future, the Police Department will have 500 more cameras to monitor, with a minimum of 50 in each of the city's eight patrol boroughs, Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.

Brooklyn - His Kosher Food Cart Is In The Right Place

Brooklyn Heights - For kosher food lovers Brauch Yehuda Ganz's Kwik Kosher food cart on Remsen Street near Court Street, is the wave of the future.
Ganz moved his cart into that location, last summer, shortly after a kosher restaurand at 16 Court Street closed down, and the landlord of 26 Court Street, an angel, Mr. Zupnick, inviting him to this private spot after being pushed off every other corner.
"My customers are like family," said Ganz. I feel much beter making people happy. Money is not everything."
Regulars said they found Ganz as likable as the food he sold. He even invited many to his daughter's recent wedding.

Borough Park - A House Divided

Brooklyn - A Judge has ordered soon-to-be divorced couple millionaire sweater manufacturer from TechKnits Inc. Simon Taub 57, and his wife Chana Taub 56, to have a wall build smack in the middle of their house on 49th Street in Borough Park, so Simon wouldn't have to relinquish it to his wife of 18 years.

Chana Taub has appealed Judge Sara Krauss' ruling. But if the decision is upheld, they could be walking in the same house, divided in two on both floors.
According to the Judge, spliting the hous should be the best way to deal with this, to have Simon a way from his wife because an order of protection that was granted on her request, and not to far away from his nearby synagogue, his four kids and his doctor's office due to a heart condition he has, even though he owns the house next door.

Phoenix - Officers Investigating Theft At Synagogue

Phoenix - Police are investigating a burglary at a Jewish Synagogue at Shirat-David Syna in the 53-hundred block of East Shea.
Phoenix police say thieves stole among other things, a Torah valued at approximately 20-thousand dollars. However, the valuable piece has been recovered. A leader of the synagogue, George Goldberg says the torah was recovered from the parking lot of an apartment complex at 17th Street and Desert Cove.
Thieves entered the synagogue last night by breaking a glass door. Goldberg said.

Key West, FL +F-18 Plane Crash+

Key West, FL +F-18 Plane Crash+ The USCG is on the scene east of Boca Chica Airport in Florida of a F-18 fighter plane from the Naval Base that has crashed, and the pilot was found by Coast Guard and taken to a local hospital.

All Boros - +Perp Search Wanted for Questioning+

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New York City - All Boros, The NYPD are mounting a citywide manhunt for Otis Cain in connection with the shooting and killing of a Dunkin Donuts manager yesterday at West 145th Street in Manhattan, and he is also wanted for numerous armed robberies around the city.

Williamsburg +Bridge Traffic Alert+

Williamsburg +Bridge Traffic Alert+ A MVA involving six vehicles with multiple injuries no entrapment on the Williamsburg Bridg, Bridge to be shut Brooklyn bound. FD, EMS and PD are all on the scene, heavy delays through area, vehicles on the inner lanes to back off the bridge.

Manhattan +Overturned Bus On Harlem River Drive+

Manhattan +Overturned Bus On H.R.D.+ A motor vehicle accident with a small occupied school bus that overturned with children involved and a civilian auto, at 155the Street and the Harlem River Drive St Nichols Pl, NYPD ESU reporting some are pinned, FDNY EMS requested.

U/D: 15:43
EMS treating 7 victims, one 16-year-old critical wth head trauma and six stable, NYPD Highway Units are being notified of a possible A.I. Job.
Two civilians are still trapped inside the civilian vehicle after 15 minutes, one of them is a male 30-years-old and is unconscious, the other aided is also in serious condition.

U/D: 16:12
HWY-1 O/S.

U/D: 16:29
One aided that has been removed was just pronounced DOA at the hospital, active A.I.S. Job.

Tit-for-tat Holocaust Cartoons

Tehran - Iran's largest selling newspaper announced, it was holding a contest on cartoons of the Holocaust in response to the publishing in European papers of caricatures of the Muhammad.
"It will be an international cartoon contest about the Holocaust," said the graphics editor for Hamshahri newspaper - which is published by Tehran's conservative municipality.
He said the plan was to turn the tables on the assertion that newspapers can print offensive material in the name of freedom of expression.
"The Western papers printed these sacrilegious cartoons on the pretext of freedom of expression, so let's see if they mean what they say and also print these Holocaust cartoons," he asserted.

U/D: 02/07/06 15:04
In response to Iran's best-selling newspaper announcing a competition to find the best cartoons about the Holocaust, the Israel News Agency launched an SEO - Internet search engine optimization marketing contest to prevent Iran news Websites from reaching top positions in Google.

Monticello - Gang Violence Esclating

Monticello - Police in the Village of Monticello are keeping the heat on one neighborhood as suspected gang violence has escalated in recent days.

Just A Few New York Hospitals Cited Among Best In Lowest Risk Of Death

New York - only seven hospitals statewide - and just two in the city - made the list of hospitals in the country where patients have the lowest risk of death or serious complications, according to a report to be released today. The study, by HealthGrades, a health care analysis firm, is in its fourth year, and each year has yielded disappointing results for New York.

The New York hospitals that made HealthGrades' "clinical excellence" list this year are NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, the huge system, based in Manhattan, that includes the main teaching hospitals of Columbia and Cornell Universities; Lutheran Medical Center in Brooklyn; White Plains Hospital Center; Northern Westchester Hospital; St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital in Newburgh and Cornwall, in Orange County; Ellis Hospital in Schenectady; and Unity Health System Park Ridge Hospital in Rochester.

New York City - New Helicopter Service Promises Wall St. to J.F.K., in 9 Minutes

New York City - As soon as next month, travelers will be able to clear security and board helicopters at the foot of Wall Street and on the east end of 34th Street, for more than $140 each way, and fly straight to Kennedy International Airport, zipping past city traffic - and also past other passengers waiting to clear security at the airport.

Brooklyn's Bubble Isn't Bursting

New Yorkers who worry about all the talk of a housing bubble need look no further than Prospect Lefferts Gardens - where apartment hunters are calling developer John Hanczor about buying condos on a site where he hasn't even started demolition.
"There's a big demand," said Hanczor of Talia Enterprises, who plans a seven-story, 27-unit condo building at 386 Lefferts Ave. He's custom-designing the apartments to appeal to Hasidic families who can't find places to live in Crown Heights - the nabe just north of Prospect Lefferts Gardens.
The condos will be large, including some five-bedroom duplexes. They'll have kosher kitchens with two sinks - and terraces where residents can build sukkah huts for the fall festival of Succoth.
The condos at 386 Lefferts are expected to sell for $400 to $450 per square foot. The pricing's modest compared with rates of $625 to $800 per square foot in Park Slope, which is just across Prospect Park.

Austria - Thousands Line Up To View Paintings Ordered Returned

Vienna, Austria - 4,000-plus of art lovers lined up outside a Vienna museum Sunday for a final glimpse of five paintings that a court has ordered to be returned to a California woman who says the Nazis stole them from her family.
Austria's government said it could not afford to buy back the works, which were valued collectively at $300 million and said it would return them to Maria Altmann of California, who says the Nazis confiscated them from her Jewish family in the run-up to World War II. An arbitration court upheld her claim last month.
Altmann, 89, a retired Beverly Hills clothing boutique operator, was one of the heirs of the family that owned the paintings before the Nazis took over Austria in 1938.

That's The Way To Avoid Your Final Car Payment

A Bronx man eager to avoid his final car payment, came up with a plan, to torch the leased vehicle.
He sprayed a flammable liquid all over inside the vehicle, and then ignited it while he was still inside, the flames spread too quickly for him to get out and he was burned to death, avoiding him of any future payments. His body was later recovered in the gutted car.
Investigators believe the fire that was set just outside his home, was to destroy the car because the lease contract on it was about to expire.

Idaho - Swastikas Spray Painted On Pocatello Cars

Pocatello, ID - residents in one apartment complex woke up to swastikas spray painted on their cars.

Police say 12 cars in the parking lot of the Kirkwood Meadows apartment complex were also painted.

They say depending on how much the total damage turns out to be, the vandal could be charged with a felony.

Right now the police are continuing their investigation.

Queens +Unruly Passenger On Aircraft+

Queens +Unruly Passenger On Aircraft+ At Laguardia Airport PAPD has been requested to the gate of an incoming United Airlines flight #694 with an unruly passenger on the plane who was tampering with some of the planes equipment on board.

Just A Regular Sunday In NY City

There were six homicides in the city within a 24-hour period in four boroughs including.

Brooklyn - A man shot and killed a security guard outside a studio on Green Street in Greenpoint.

Queens - Cops responding to a call of a SUV fully involved in a fire in the Richmond Hill section of Queens found one of the men in the driver's seat and the other in the back seat both shot in the head, one was pronounced dead, the other man is in critical condition. A man with a large gun, was seen fleeing the scene, after igniting the vehicle.

Bronx - Police discovered the body of man inside a suitcase. The man had multiple stab wounds, including one on the side of his chest.

Manhattan - West 145th Street A perp entered a Dunkin Donuts and robbed a employee, and then shot him, he was pronounced DOA on the way to the hospital.

Dutch State May Return Art Looted By Nazis

Amsterdam, Netherlands - The Dutch government is deciding whether to return a major art collection to the descendants of a Jewish art dealer whose holdings were taken by the Nazis, a spokesman for the family said.
The Netherlands' biggest art dealer before World War II, Jacques Goudstikker fled the country with his wife and son at the start of the war, leaving behind an estimated 1,300 artworks.

Manhattan +Pedestrian Struck+

Manhattan +Pedestrian Struck+ A motor vehicle accident with a pedestrian that was struck on West 34th Street and 9th Avenue. Hatzolah on the scene.

Totowa - Massive Oil Spill At The Passaic River

Totowa, N.J. - Authorities on Sunday were responding to the release of more than 9,000 gallons of refined oil into the Passaic River, causing a spotty slick stretching from Wayne to Paterson N.J.

Passaic County Sheriff's Department Spokesman Bill Maer said the leak started from a ruptured tank at a materials manufacturer in Totowa.

The oil continued to enter the Passaic on Sunday afternoon through the tributary, said sheriff's department Capt. James Hearney.

FBI Arrests One Of NYC's Most Wanted

New York City - One of the city's 10 most-wanted fugitives, who authorities said belonged to a Jamaican-American drug ring, was nabbed after someone recognized his
picture in the news and called authorities, the FBI said.

New York - Appeals Court Bars Some Christian Symbols At Schools. But Approves Jewish And Islamic Symbols

A divided federal appeals-court panel ruled New York City schools can ban the display of some Christian symbols during Christmas while permitting a Jewish menorah and the Islamic star during Hanukkah and Ramadan.

The Thomas More Law Center, which brought the case on behalf of Andrea Skoros and her two elementary school children, called the 2-1 decision by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan "another outrageous example of federal courts discriminating against Christians."

New York - Judge Rules 311 Can Be Used To Put City On Notice

A Manhattan judge has ruled that a detailed call to 311 qualifies as sufficient notice of an intention to sue the city.

Typically, anyone who wants to sue the city must file what's called a notice of claim within 90 days of an incident, but the judge’s ruling changes that.

Queens +MVA / Vehicle Overturned+

Queens +MVA / Vehicle Overturned+ A motor vehicle accident with one vehicle overturned at 112th Street and 69th Road, NYPD of the 112th Pct. on the scene reporting aided pinned, ESU has been requested, Hatzolah on the scene and FD enroute.

U/D: 10:06
ESU Truck to cancel, all occupants have been self extricated, FD Rescue to continue in.

U/D: 10:15
Hatzolah requesting an additional bus.

Is Ritual Circumcision Religious Expression?

Yemen - Mastermind Of USS Cole Bombing, Escaped

San'a, Yemen - An al-Qaida operative who was sentenced to death for plotting and masterminding the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in 2000 was among a group of convicts who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday in issuing a global security alert.

U/D: 17:47
Officials set up checkpoints around the capital of San'a, where the prison was located, to try to catch the escapees before he could flee to the protection of mountain tribes, according to a Yemeni security official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.

Monsey - Hatzolah Company Looks To Expand

Monsey - Chevra Hatzoloh of Rockland County is planning to build a garage and parking lot at Grandview Avenue and Route 306 to house two ambulances.
The proposed garage would allow volunteers to maintain, if not improve, their response time by avoiding heavy traffic that often arises near the company's Grove Street headquarters.
The one-floor, 2,475-square-foot garage would be built on a 1-acre lot that was previously the site of a one-family home.
The town's Planning Board will hold a public hearing on the environmental impact of the proposed two-bay garage and adjoining five-space parking lot Tuesday, said First Deputy Town Attorney Alan Berman. And if the town's land-use boards approved the project, construction could begin in six months.
According to U.S. census figures the population of the village of Monsey grew from 13,986 in 1990 to 14,504 in 2000, an increase of 518. Those same figures show a population increase in the village of New Square from 2,605 in 1990 to 5,920 in 2004, an increase of 3,315.
Hatzoloh currently has six ambulances, 110 volunteers and 13 dispatchers.