A ‘nor’easter’ is expected to pour heavy rain and snow on the eastern United States late Tuesday and cause problems on Wednesday, traditionally the busiest travel day of the year as Americans head home for Thanksgiving.
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Yonathan Souid, 23, a Jewish college student from France who arrived in New York for a Chabad-sponsored Shabbaton in Crown Heights last weekend, was arrested by the NYPD for scaling the Brooklyn Bridge for a photo shoot.
New York City’s Department of Sanitation has issued a snow alert, starting at 8:00pm tonight, Thursday. The National Weather Service says it expects rain tonight for the city, followed by a little snow after 1:00am Friday.
A CrownHeights.info reader brought to our attention a troubling phenomenon: a clear attempt by the City of New York to obstruct a sign warning drivers of a newly-installed camera issuing tickets to vehicles traveling in the recently-created bus lane on Nostrand Ave.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to raise subway and bus fares by 4 percent in March, MTA Chairman and CEO Tom Prendergast said yesterday, Wednesday.
The first time two Brooklyn men ever met was when their cars crashed into each other over two months ago. Yesterday, Wednesday, they were both standing at the same defense table in a rare case in which two drivers are charged together for the death of a single passenger.
Mayor Bill de Blasio signed legislation today that will lower the default speed limit in New York City from 30 to 25 miles per hour. Beginning November 7, the speed limit on all streets will be 25 mph, unless otherwise posted.
A 5-year-old boy, who recently returned from West Africa, is being observed in isolation at Bellevue Hospital in New York City for possible Ebola symptoms. If he tests positive, it would mark the second incidence of the deadly virus’ spread to New York City.
Update: Boy tests negative.
Today, the FDNY EMS HAZ and TAC Units transferred to Bellevue Hospital a patient who presented a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. The patient is a health care worker who returned to the U.S. within the past 21 days from one of the three West African countries currently facing the outbreak of this virus.
Records compiled over the summer show an 18.9% upswing in tickets issues to New York City businesses from the same period last year, despite Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign promise to back-off and cut the city’s small business owners a break.
Records compiled by New York City’s Department of Transportation (DOT) reveal that a single speed camera located Brooklyn pumped out an astonishing 1,551 tickets on a single day this past July, totaling a staggering $77,550 for the city.
Hate crimes against Jews in New York City have quickly risen over the summer. The New York Post reports anti-Semitic incidents rose 35 percent by Sept. 9 compared to 2013.
Compelled by video of a police chokehold death on Staten Island and the lack of such evidence in the fatal shooting of a Missouri teenager, a top New York City official Thursday intensified her push to equip the city’s 35,000 officers with body-worn cameras.
An enormous Palestinian flag, bearing the words “Boycott, Divest, Sanction,” was unfurled from the south side of the Manhattan Bridge in New York City yesterday evening.
A new poll released by Quinnipiac University shows the Democratic Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, maintaining a 2-to-1 advantage over his Republican challenger, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino.
Two people were killed and 21 injured in more than a dozen separate shootings in New York City over the weekend. The gun violence, scattered around four New York boroughs, is part of a recent increase in shooting incidents in the city, despite a sharp decline in crime over the past two decades.
In an apparent return of the sickening ‘knockout game,’ a 72-year-old man walking down a Manhattan street was randomly punched in the head and knocked out by a young African-American man, who then fled the scene. The shocking incident was caught on surveillance video.
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