New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that high-speed open road, cashless tolling will be completed on all MTA-operated bridges and tunnels in the New York metropolitan region by the end of 2017, with automatic tolling beginning at the Hugh L. Carey and Queens Midtown Tunnels next month.
The MTA is considering a proposal that would raise fares and tolls system-wide in 2017. Under the plan, subway fares would rise to $3 per ride, while weekly MetroCards would rise to $32 and a monthly pass would cost $121.
In a jaw-dropping upset, the American people have voted and elected Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America.
Guardian Angels founder and popular radio host Curtis Sliwa minced no words on his WABC Drive at Five radio program on Thursday afternoon, taking direct aim at the NYPD’s Jewish liaisons and challenging police to reevaluate its coveted chaplaincy positions.
Rabbi Noach Salovitz, a member of the Crown Heights community, authored the following op-ed on what he feels has been absent from the ongoing discussion regarding the Crown Heights Eruv, which he shared with CrownHeights.info.
Three people were arrested today, Tuesday, after police discovered multiple loaded guns, rifles and bullet-proof vests in their vehicle at the exit of the Holland Tunnel on their way into New York City.
Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip moved closer to war for the first time since 2014, as terrorists fired several rockets and mortars into Israel from the Palestinian territory.
A brick, aimed at the head of a Jewish bus driver, thankfully missed its mark and instead struck the mirror and body of the bus, causing significant damage. The young teenagers who threw the brick fled into an adjacent subway station and onto the train tracks.
Delegations from more than fifty Chabad House communities returned last week from JLI’s Land and Spirit trip to Israel. Close to 500 participants from thirty U.S. states, as well as, Canada, England and Australia completed the eight-day inspiring visit.
On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with a delegation of representatives of the Russian Jewish Community, headed by the chief rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, and Mr. Lev Leviev, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS (FJC).
Bentzi Sasson is a survivor of Yeneh Machla and ahead of Yom Kippur he penned an eye opening and emotional essay on going through the holiday while battling this terrible illness, and the virtues of never judging anyone.
The looks on their faces—on the kids’ faces—reflected in their parents’ eyes, that’s what it’s all about. That’s what it’s always about.
Roey Amir, who fought in Israel’s Operation Protective Edge against Hamas, wrote to the NY Post about his visit 10-day visit to New York City with other wounded Israeli veterans, organized by Belev Echad, a project of the Chabad Israel Center.
New York City commuters, brace yourselves: The price of traveling on New York City’s mass transit system just got even steeper. Fare increases kicked in across the board Sunday on the city’s subways, buses, commuter trains, bridges and tunnels, part of a series of fare increases in recent years built into the MTA’s budget.
Experiential, inspiring, welcoming and home are all words that describe the ‘Israel Experience – 2015’ of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy of Longmeadow, MA. Twenty students in 7th and 8th grades recently toured Israel on a packed 10-day trip. They were joined by 18 students from Southern Connecticut Hebrew Academy of Orange, CT, with their chaperones.
The NYPD made 219 arrests as protesters took to the streets for a second night following the grand jury decision not to indict an NYPD officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner.
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.
