CROWN HEIGHTS (VINnews) — On Tuesday afternoon, a Jewish funeral procession was taking place in Crown Heights, when the participants were physically assaulted. The incident occurred at the intersection of Crown Street and Brooklyn Avenue. In the video below, a black male can be seen swinging wildly at the participants at the procession. When he […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A dangerous virus has transformed New York as it has claimed the lives of 10,000 people, but one thing hasn’t changed: the contentious relationship between the state’s two most prominent politicians, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. A weekend dust-up over which of the two Democrats […]

NEW YORK (AP) – In its best days, in its highest moments, New York City is dizzying. Times Square glows. Penn Station pulses. Wall Street teems with the ambitious. The highways are jammed with trucks and taxis and Ubers and Lyfts, transporting the life of the city — its people, its goods — to and […]

NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – A group of Chasidic men have spent hours setting up and delivering tablets to hospitalized coronavirus patients in the New York City area, allowing them to stay connected to their families despite a strict no-visitors-allowed policy put in place to limit the spread of the deadly pandemic. A volunteer who […]

MONSEY (VINnews) — The lawyer for Grafton Thomas, the man accused of going on a stabbing rampage at a Monsey Chanukah party this past December, is working on a new defense for his client. Attorney Michael Sussman wrote a letter to Judge Cathy Seibel following the recent passing of 72-year-old Josef Neumann, who was stabbed […]

ROCKLAND COUNTY (VINnews) — Ramapo police arrested eight men in Monsey on Passover. The arrests come just days after Albany authorized Rockland County officials to crack down on large gatherings. Late Thursday morning, Ramapo PD was advised by a neighbor of a gathering at Congregation Shaarei Chesed, located at 92 North Saddle River Road in […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Governor and mayor locked horns again Saturday, this time over whether school buildings in the nation’s largest district would close for the rest of the year, with classes continuing online. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a news briefing that public school sites in the city’s 1.1 million-student […]

NEW YORK (AP) — As health officials around the world push to get more ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, some doctors are moving away from using the breathing machines when they can. The reason: Some hospitals have reported unusually high death rates for coronavirus patients on ventilators, and some doctors worry that the machines could […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio acknowledged Wednesday that the city’s official coronavirus statistics have missed hundreds of people who died at home without ever being tested for the virus, and said the city would start including such victims in its COVID-19 tally. “The blunt truth is coronavirus is driving […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus rose past 4,000 on Tuesday, eclipsing the number killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11. In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson lay in intensive care, believed to be the first major world leader hospitalized with the virus. The twin developments came even […]