Crown Heights Shomrim is advising the community of an old scam that has returned to Crown Heights, fooling people into giving money for “breaking” someones expensive bottle of booze. Please be aware of this scam. Don’t fall for it.
Calling all who tested for antibodies at the Mayo Clinic with an index level of 2.0 and above and all who tested at Mount Sinai with a titer level of 320 and above. Join this week’s 56 donors from Crown Heights and be part of the Save-a-Life Mitzvah.
Just days from the highly anticipated Lag B’Omer Hatzalah-Thon event, Dr. Eli Rosen, a Crown Heights physician who spearheaded the communities response to the COVID-19 virus, has a message for the Jewish community. Come join the tens of thousands who will be unifying and donating to Hatzalah’s tireless work.
Thanks to the Chamah organization, a large amount of produce, eggs, and other food items are presently being distributed to all Crown Heights residents in the Bais Rivkah parking lot on East New York Ave. All items are first come first serve.
Rabbi Eliezer Gold, a Crown Heights resident, returned home Thursday after a nearly month long stay in the hospital.
As many of Crown Heights’s residents return from long stays in the hospital, they will require intensive rehabilitation, and the Crown Heights community has come together to provide home based community rehab. To make the initiative work, the rehab is seeking volunteers from the community to join.
A special thank you to Hatzalah volunteers lit up the facade of an apartment building in Crown Heights. Thanked by name for their lifesaving work were Dr. Eli Rosen, Yingi Bistritzky, JJ Katz, and Menachem Freeman.
A twenty seventh update from the Gedaliah Society has been released, updating the community with statistics from recent testing and surveys. The update also reports the good news as the virus weakens its hold on the community.
Seven vehicles were involved in a large crash that spread crumpled up cars and debris across an entire Crown Heights block Wednesday night. The accident occurred around 10:15pm on New York Ave between East New York Ave and Lefferts Ave in Crown Heights.
With Lag B’Omer around the corner, and the much anticipated Hatzalah-Thon LIVE event, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice Chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, has a message for the residents of Crown Heights and Shluchim around the world. Come join the Hatzalah-Thon, and show your appreciation for Hatzalah by donating generously.
Thirty nine Crown heights residents spent the day donating plasma to help COVID-19 patients in Critical condition. The group made their way to New York Blood Center in New Brunswick, NJ, where they had their blood, rich with COVID-19 antibodies, cycled through a machine and plasma extracted.
A pair of car break-in thieves in Crown Heights struck multiple times in the early hours of Tuesday morning, rummaging through vehicles and taking items.
When Yosef Hershkop, the manager of the Kāmin Health Crown Heights Urgent Care, heard that the senior citizen tenants of the William Reid Apartment complex on East New York Ave were short on face masks, and even more seriously short on food, he took action. Soon, Crown Heights residents and local elected officials were working together to provide for those in need.
Good news continues in Crown Heights as Meir Zarchi, who was in critical condition with the COVID-19 virus, has returned home. Meir was welcomed by his family ro a resounding bracha of “Shehecheyanu” and Birkas Kohanim.
Seventeen Crown Heights residents who had their blood tested for COVID-19 antibodies went to Bethlehem, PA Tuesday morning to donate plasma for those critically ill with the virus. This group of donors is the first from the mass Save A Life Antibody Testing Event that took place in Crown Heights last week.
A vehicle on a Crown Heights street burst into flames Monday, billowing smoke into the air but thankfully leaving everyone uninjured. The fire was quickly put out, leaving no injuries.
Menachem Ochana, A Crown Heights resident was welcomed home Monday after being on a ventilator. He was awaited by a small welcome committee and music.
