Alternate side parking regulations will be suspended Tommrow, Tuesday, February 14, because of snow conditions.
All other parking regulations, including meters and no standing zones, will be in effect.
After yesterday’s blizzard the city is still struggling to get all the streets plowed and salted, so what we are left with is a lot of wet, slippery and slushy roads. At around 8:45 a small car apparently spun out and got hit on the drivers side by a SUV who then went plowing into another vehicle traveling in the lane over, the small car had its airbags deploy and the driver who suffered from minor injuries was taken by EMS to KCH. The incident took place on Eastern Parkway between Albany & Kingston.
We would like to take the moment to warn all of you that are driving today to be extra cautious the roads are really treacherous.
On the 15th of Shevat on the Jewish calendar we celebrate Rosh HaShonah L’Ilonot,the “New Year for the Trees.” Some customs for this day:
• It is customary to increase in the amount of fruits one eats on the 15th of Shevat, in order to praise G-d who created all these species of fruits.
We have received word that schools will be running on schedule as with public schools as well. Today is also Lincoln’s Day so there is no alternate side parking, even though the blizzard would have stopped it, so busses will be running on Holiday Schedule, check with your school to see how bus transportation will be running.
Yesterday in the early morning a Bochur was walking home from a Farbrengen and was confronted by 3 black teenagers at the intersection of President St. & Schenectady Ave. who demanded money from him. The Bochur produced his pocket contents which consisted of a single dollar coin and handed it to the teens who took it and threw it back at him. One of them then pulled out a black pistol pointing it at the Bochur demanding more money but the Bochur didn’t have any, so one of them punched him in the face knocking him out.
A few moments later the Bochur came back to himself and noticed that they had taken an expensive watch off his wrist and fled. Later that day the Bochur went and filed a police report, the police took him to the hospital where they determined he had suffered a minor injury to his head and will be ok.
This incident happened late at night (or early in the morning, depends how you look at it) which isn’t a smart time to be walking alone in the street. Please be sensible. If you are C”V a victim of a mugging don’t wait to report it to the police, do it immediately. And please remember to call Shomrim at (718) 774-3333 24/7.
Some holidays, like fine wine, seem to improve with age: The more I celebrate them, the more meaning I find in the customs and rituals, as the older and (I hope) wiser me finds different ways to relate to the same events.
Then there are those holidays that loom large in childhood but fade in importance over time. It’s not that I don’t care about them; I just don’t have school projects and assemblies to remind me of a holiday’s imminent arrival, so it’s not until my niece or nephew brings home flowers made of fruit leather that the bell chimes in my head and I find myself saying, “Hmm, Tu B’Shevat again? Where does the time go?”
When I was growing up, Tu B’Shevat was a day I looked forward to, if for no other reason than that it meant snack bags of exotic fruits like carob and figs. I vaguely understood that it was a new year for the trees and had something to do with nature, but I didn’t really dig too deep into the meaning of the day. All I knew was that it was a time to indulge in rare fruit, and I was more than happy to oblige.
We got 26.9 inches of snow on the ground (in central park), in a blizzard to remember, with the largest snowfall in a single storm in New York City history (The previous record was set in 1947 with 26.4 inches of snow).
Kids as well as adults went out in the streets having fun in the snow whilst others were not having so much fun digging their cars out of the snow.
People took advantage of these harsh weather conditions for snow boarding of the back of cars, and others were seen skiing down Kingston Ave.!!
As of yet schools seem to be operation on normal schedule for tomorrow, if you know of any closings, please email us at webmaster@crownheights.info.
A Gallery of Crown Heights in the snow with over 70 Pictures in the Extended Article!
As more and more boomers get their welcome kit from AARP (American Association of Retired Persons), Chabad programming for seniors is experiencing a boom of its own. In southern California, two Chabad centers offer programs for older Jews with a twist – spiritual health is as much a concern as good blood pressure readings.
Since Shabbos afternoon it has been snowing with no sign of letting up, now at 7:00am it still does not seem to slow down at all, and there are places with accumulation of about 10 inches of snow!
City snow plows prioritize which streets get plowed and those are main routes like Eastern Parkway and Empire Blvd. then goes the Avenues like Kingston and Brooklyn, and then goes the streets.
To view status at the local major airports you can click here.
In the Extended Article is a short gallery of the beginning of the storm last night.
Once they saw the video evidence, once they saw that this man in their midst was indeed something tenable, something real, the voices of the assembled at Adolf Schreiber Hebrew Academy of Rockland County rang out from every corner. It was then, after the rabbi delivered his introduction and the DVD of Dmitriy Salita’s career highlights as a boxer was completed and the lights in the segregated auditorium again were lifted, that the questions came pouring forth.
The questions came from the right side of the aisle, from the boys in the technicolor yarmulkes, and the questions came from the left side of the aisle, from the girls in the flowing print dresses. The questions were brutalistic (What was your worst injury?) and the questions were status-conscious (Have you ever been on “SportsCenter”?) and the questions were practical (How much money do you make?) and the questions were academic (Where do you go to college?), and after a while, the rabbi just wanted them all to be quiet and keep their tuchases in their seats so they could hear the answers to their own inquiries.
Three Brooklyn elected officials yesterday joined a high-profile lawsuit to bar Bruce Ratner from demolishing six buildings in the proposed Atlantic Yards site.
“My colleagues and I stand 100% with the plaintiffs,” said Councilwoman Letitia James (WFP-Prospect Heights), who filed the supporting brief with Rep. Major Owens (D-Crown Heights) and state Sen. Velmanette Montgomery (D-Fort Greene).
The National Weather Service [NOAH] issued a blizzard warning for the tri-state area. The expected accumulation is estimated at 10in to 16in, winds are expected to be at 25mph to 35mph and the Temperature is expected to be at a 32F High and 25F low, with the windchill it will go well below that. The NWA asked that people avoid travel.
UPDATE: Morristown Yeshiva notified us that tomorrow’s busses that are re-scheduled for 2:00pm are going to be running at that time, and all Bochurim should be there. (as of 12:30pm)
Bais Rivkah is reporting that due to the weather there will be no school on Sunday for all grades, pre-school through 12th grade.
Thursday evening Campers and Counselors gathered together in the Bais Rivkah Crown St. hall for a fun and memorable evening. A Pizza and French Fries dinner was served.
The campers sang camp songs and were given raffle tickets for prizes, and later played a jeopardy “Camp Flashbacks” game, where questions about events in camp were asked and teams had to answer them. And the campers were treated to a show by a magician.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has fired a city employee after seeing the man play solitaire on his computer at work.
“The workplace is not an appropriate place for games,” Bloomberg told reporters on Thursday when asked about firing a clerical worker in the city’s lobbying office in Albany. “I expect all city workers, including myself, to work hard.”
The man was fired last Tuesday after six years on the job with no warning or severance pay.
I would like to wish a hearty Mazal Tov to a dear friend Shumly Turk (Crown Heights) on the occasion of his engagement to Chanie Lasker (Brussels, Belgium) !
The Lechaim will take place on Sunday in Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown & Albany.
In honor of Yud Shvat Bochurim form Chovevai Torah Lubavitcher Yeshiva sat down for a Farbrengen with R. Y.Y. Jacobson, a Mashpia in the Yeshiva. The Farbrengen focused around the topic of Bochurim in Yeshiva and Bochurim that left Yeshiva.
Included here is a recording of most of the Farbrengen. Right Click and hit “Save As…” to save the Farbrengen to your computer.
Click Here To Listen [137 minutes, STREAM/DOWNLOAD, 32mb, WMA]
