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Alternate Side Parking rules will be suspended on Monday, Oct. 12, in observance of Columbus Day. Other parking laws remain in effect.
Alternate Side Parking rules will be suspended on Monday, September 21, in observance of Yom Kippur. Other parking laws remain in effect.
A new traffic camera has gone up on Empire Blvd at the corner of New York Ave in Crown Heights. The camera is facing west, catching infractions of vehicles heading out of Crown Heights.
Alternate Side Parking Regulations are suspended Thursday, July 22nd, for Tisha B’Av. Parking Meter rules remain in effect.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) and parking meter regulations are suspended Friday through Saturday, July 3rd through July 4th for Independence Day.
Alternative Side Parking regulations will be suspended on Wednesday, May 27th, and Thursday, May 28th for a major Islamic holiday. Meter rules remain in effect.
Missionaries have again targeted the community with a publication blitz, leaving Shmad materials across stoops and doorsteps throughout Crown Heights.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) and meters will be suspended on Monday, May 25th for Memorial Day.
Alternate Side Parking Rules are suspended Friday and Shabbos, May 22nd and 23rd, for the holiday of Shavuos. All other parking regulations remain in effect.
It is forbidden on a holiday to do any act in preparation for the following day, even if the following day is Shabbat. However, the sages created a halachic device, called an eruv tavshilin, which allows one to cook food on a holiday day for use on a Shabbat that immediately follows it.
Please say Tehillim for הרב צמח יוסף יצחק בן נחמה, a pre-1A teacher at Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim Montreal who is in need of a Refuah Sheleima.
Alternate side parking will be suspended on Wednesday and Thursday for Pesach, and on Friday for another holiday. Meters will still be in effect for all three days.
Unfortunately, the CBD sold in Crown Heights stores are sometimes placed on displays next to candy sections. With their brightly colored packaging, children may mistake them for non-medicated gummies, chocolates, and other candy.
From the Safer Haminhagim: Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, one reads the passage that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. Yehi Ratzon in the Extended Article.
Many streets in Brooklyn and Manhattan will be closed on Sunday for the 2026 United Airlines New York City Half.
Daylight Savings Time begins on Motzai Shabbos and we ‘spring ahead’ – at 2:00am it will become 3:00am – taking away an hour of sleep.
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