CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — The Brooklyn Landmarks Preservation Commission will vote on landmarking an additional 610 Crown Heights buildings in June. Another 630 buildings are expected to follow.
Blood was spilled on a Crown Heights street last night when two men were slashed at around 7:45 p.m., police said.
Hundreds of people attended Thursday night’s concert dubbed the Orlando Pesach Unity Concert featuring the 8th Day with a guest appearance from Dr. Laz and the Cure. Taking place at the Orlando Sun Resort and Convention Center, the audience was treated to some of the best songs from the 8th day and Dr Laz.
Internal Affairs cops got a big break in their exploding ticket-fixing probe when they caught a Bronx sergeant shamelessly trying to make a traffic violation disappear for an honorary NYPD deputy commissioner, The Post has learned.
Attention, allergy sufferers: we know you’re coughing, mercilessly sneezing and desperately want to claw your itchy eyes out of your head.
New York City has filed a federal lawsuit accusing 32 people of evading millions of dollars in taxes by buying heaps of cigarettes over the Internet, and then reselling them on the black market.
New data show the state’s decade-long decline in major crimes slowed last year as rapes, robberies and assaults increased in New York City, burglaries rose elsewhere and murders statewide were up 10 percent to 861.
A notice on the bulletin board in the old commercial center of Ramat Aviv suggests holding a Passover seder in the local Habad center. Another recommends an “unprecedented” overall ritual Passover cleansing, including the bathroom, kitchen utensils and electric appliances.
ALBANY, NY [CHI] — Governor Andrew Cuomo has issued a proclamation citing Albany’s Maimonides School for serving Northway travelers year round with a minyan, the “Passover Stopover” and the upcoming “87 Northway Traveler’s Torah” for the Albany, Saratoga, Lake George and Adirondack regions.
In honor of Yud Aleph Nissan, the Rebbe’s birthday, philanthropist Guma Aguiar held a cocktail reception in his Ft. Lauderdale home for his home-state’s Shluchim. Mr. Aguiar announced his project of the Chabad Visitor Center to be constructed at the Kotel, and showed videos about the project in his home.
The poorest place in the United States is not a dusty Texas border town, a hollow in Appalachia, a remote Indian reservation or a blighted urban neighborhood. It has no slums or homeless people. No one who lives there is shabbily dressed or has to go hungry. Crime is virtually nonexistent.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Miriam bas Chaim Shimon Seewald OBM of New Jersey.
She is survived by her children Zvi Seewald (Crown Heights), Chaim Seewald (Nevada), Sara Verchow (New Jersey).
Halacha and the Parasha: Chol Hamoed Pesach
How fitting that the Los Angeles Dodgers are wearing throwback uniforms for today’s home matinee against the Atlanta Braves. Throwbacks that include a “B” on the blue cap instead of the “LA” that all but the crankiest old Brooklyn fans have grow accustomed to.
Scores of European dignitaries, including Princess Laurentien van Oranje-Nassue of the Netherlands visited the European Jewish Community Center in Brussels to memorialize the accomplishments of Stanley Crossick, a British native who co-founded the European Policy Centre.
As one of the most widely celebrated Jewish holidays, the eight holy days of Passover are a time when all Jews, regardless of affiliation, religious background or level of observance, can commemorate the ancient Israelites, who were freed from slavery in Egypt after 400 years, while reflecting on themes of freedom, redemption and creation, singing songs, reciting prayers and eating symbolic foods.
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