Last night at about 2:00am, the Nachman family awoke to discover rising flood waters engulfing their home – located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Mill Basin. To make matters worse, the flooding caused a gas malfunction which released large amounts of carbon monoxide – a lethal poison.
New York City’s subway is likely to be out of service for another four to five days after monster storm Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Tuesday.
Chabad’s Terror Victims Project recently shared in the celebration of Daniel Fahima’s birthday. He was one of the most severely injured in the horrible act of terror in which a bus filled with Israeli tourists, on their way to vacations at the Black Sea, was blown up by a suicide bomber on July 18, 2012 in the Burgas, Bulgaria airport.
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A CrownHeights.info photographer roamed the mostly-deserted streets of New York City on Monday, capturing scenes of Hurricane Sandy’s carnage from around Crown Heights, the Brooklyn Bridge, Red Hook and the Verrazano Bridge.
Despite earlier reports, Crown Heights’ schools will mostly remain open today, Tuesday, due to the fact that the bad weather has subsided.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo‘s office tonight confirmed at least five storm-related deaths in New York. The first of which was a 30-year-old man in Flushing, Queens.
Some of the city’s lower elements took advantage of the chaos caused by Hurricane Sandy and used it as a cover to commit crimes.
NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that the NYC 911 system received 10,000 calls per half hour on Monday night. A quick math suggests that this is 333.3 calls per minute, which in turn means 5.5 calls per second!
Parts of the roof and facade of the 1414 President St. dormitory came crashing to the ground Monday night, after coming loose due to strong winds from the hurricane.
He was a black-hatted chassid, but I thought he could be a storm chaser.
Rabbi Yisroel Engel of Denver, Colorado leads a program at the Gan Gabi and Rivkie Early Learning Centre in East Bentleigh, Victoria. Rabbi Engel is in Australia for his grandson’s bris.
A time-lapse video of a portrait of the Rebbe drawn in charcoal by Estee Klein. Background music by Moshe Kravitsky.
All schools and public transportation have been shutdown across the eastern seaboard for the next few days. Nevertheless, students at Cheder at the Ohel continue to learn.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) and parking meter regulations will be suspended on Tuesday, October 30, due to severe weather conditions.
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CrownHeights.info has compiled a collection of live camera feeds streaming video of Hurricane Sandy from various places in the Tri-State area.
While strong winds of the impending hurricane blew outside, a crowd of over 600 parents gathered inside the Oholei Torah ballroom for the Safety Kid seminar.
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