BROOKLYN, NY (JTA)- They protested the mayor’s decision to keep the parks closed on Sunday. By Monday, they vowed to cut the chains of the park gates themselves if Mayor Bill de Blasio didn’t accede to their requests. In a tweet Monday evening, New York State Sen. Simcha Felder said he and two other Orthodox […]

NEW YORK (AP/VINnews) — New York City police determined there was no criminality by Shake Shack employees after three officers drank milkshakes believed to be contaminated with bleach. Police came to the determination after “a thorough investigation,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Rodney Harrison said in a tweet early Tuesday. The officers had been assigned to […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — An investigation is underway after 3 NYPD officers were poisoned on Monday evening. The officers ingested the poison through eating a meal they took while on duty at a protest in Lower Manhattan. According to a statement released by the NYPD PBA, the officers were assigned to deal with a protest […]

Rockland County, NY (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – Just hours after her husband and father succumbed to injuries sustained in a fatal collision, a New Square woman has given birth to a baby boy. As previously reported on VIN News (https://bit.ly/3d2oKRH), a van transporting the members of two New Square families to the city for a wedding […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — Leo Goldman was walking past the park Monday morning when he saw workers closing the two entrances to a playground in Williamsburg, a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Brooklyn. Not just closing, welding. In a WhatsApp message, Goldman told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he tried to open the gate himself. “It […]

NEW YORK — New York City’s police department is disbanding the type of plainclothes anti-crime units that were involved in the 2014 death of Eric Garner and have long been criticized for aggressive tactics, Commissioner Dermot Shea said Monday. The NYPD’s anti-crime units, which focused primarily on seizing illegal guns, were responsible for a disproportionate […]

NEW YORK (VINnews/Facebook) — The observant Jewish community is no longer welcome in New York. Our way of life is being trampled on, our needs are dismissed with ease, our vote is irrelevant and cannot change a thing. We are being mocked, humiliated, and relegated to third-class status with shockingly cocky dismissiveness by politicians who […]

MONSEY (VINnews/Sandy Eller) — Members of two New Square families heading to a wedding in New York City were involved in a serious accident this afternoon after the vehicle they were riding in collided with a tree. The incident took place shortly after 4 PM on New Hempstead Road just west of exit 11 on […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Ezras Nashim, the organization founded by women to provide first-response treatment for women, has served the Borough Park community for 8 years. During the course of the coronavirus epidemic, volunteers geared up and visited numerous sick patients, providing many of them with oxygen which enabled them to stay at home and […]

NEW YORK (NEWSMAX) — The New York City Council is proposing to cut an unprecedented $1 billion from the NYPD’s budget for the coming fiscal year as calls grow to defund the police in the wake of George Floyd’s death. “We believe that we can and should work to get to $1 billion in cuts […]