Daily Archives: August 5, 2005
NJ Turnpike Closed After Tractor Trailer Accident
A flatbed tractor trailer, carrying twin 12,000 pound spools of rolled steel, jackknifed in the northbound lanes near Exit 7A in Bordentown, dumping its cargo onto the roadbed.
Turnpike authorities says the roadway was damaged and engineering crews are still en route to the scene.
The cause of the accident is not known but all lanes of the Turnpike are closed northbound at exit 7A.
Traffic is being diverted off the northbound Turnpike and drivers should expect massive rubber necking delays southbound as well.
Exit 7A takes traffic to Great Adventure and other shore points so the impact of this accident and road closing will be significant.
There is 13 mile delay going north and a 16 mile delay going south, good luck getting to the country (if you are not already there).
Home values surging in Crown Heights,
once known for racial strife
once known for racial strife
NY Daily News
For many years, what came to New Yorkers’ minds if you mentioned “Crown Heights” were riots and racial strife.
They thought of the dire days of August 1991 when riots lasted for three days following the deaths of a 7-year-old boy and a Hasidic scholar.
“If you would mention Crown Heights, people would say, ‘I don’t want to live there,'” explained Robert Matthews, the chairman of Community Board 8, in whose territory Crown Heights is partly located.
TRAFIC ADVISORY: Road Work on Route 17
All those of you who take Route 17 to get to your bungalow colonies, there is roadwork taking place between exits 129 and 124 from 6 PM today to 6 AM tomorrow.
If you’re going to be on the Rt. 17 today between those hours today you should consider continuing on the thruway to exit 17 and there take the 84 to Middletown and that would put you on exit 120 on the 17 thereby avoiding the road work but putting another 20 miles on your trip.
Good Shabbos and a safe ride up.
A March Against Hate Crimes in Crown Heights
WNYC Newsroom
Leaders from the Jewish and black communities in Crown Heights marched with city officials and NYPD hate crimes officers last night to condemn hate crime.
REPORTER: The move comes after a Hasidic man was allegedly attacked on Monday by three black men in Crown Heights who used anti-semitic slurs. The Crown Heights Jewsih Council’s Chanina Sperlin says the reaction to this attack is much different than in 1991, when rioting broke out.
Sperlin views Monday’s attack as an isolated incident:
SPERLIN: The march was unity. The African-American, the Carribean-American community stood with the Jewish community and said we’re not going to tolerate this from anybody of any community that you do this against.
REPORTER: Since 2000, hate crimes have dropped by 44 percent, mirroring the drop in overall crime.
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