Mayor Bill de Blasio called for an investigation Monday of power outages that came at the end of this weekend’s oppressive heat, saying he no longer trusts utility Con Edison after it decided to turn off power to thousands of customers.
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There was a fire on McDonald Avenue near Boro Park, Monday afternoon.
The FDNY reports that the fire started at around 12:30PM, in the basement of a deli/grocery located at 950 McDonald Avenue, between 18th Avenue and Avenue F.
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YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of HaRav Reuven Scheiner ZATZAL, a Magid Shiur at Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Flatbush for more than 50 years.
The Levaya will be held at 1:00PM at the Yeshiva, located at 425 East 9th Street in Brooklyn.

Former Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau, who spent more than three decades jailing criminals from mob kingpins and drug-dealing killers to a tax-dodging Harvard dean, died Sunday. He was 99, just 10 days short of his 100th birthday.

A highway shoulder is where New York state troopers spotted Luke Patterson, walking by himself around 2 a.m. after his car became disabled. By the end of the encounter in rural New York, the 41-year-old chef would be killed by a trooper’s gunfire.
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Con Edison was taking 30,000 customers off power in Brooklyn to make repairs and prevent a bigger outage, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced in a tweet Sunday night.
The announcement comes on top of the more than 38,000 customers who lost power on the third day of an oppressive heatwave.

Back on Brooklyn College’s red brick campus this winter to launch his second bid for the White House, Bernie Sanders set aside rhetoric for a few minutes to acknowledge the neighborhood where he grew up.
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Two people were killed in a fire in Queens Sunday morning, authorities say.
The two-alarm fire broke out at about 9:40 a.m. at a two-story brick home on 117th Street near Atlantic Avenue in Richmond Hill.
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This photo was published on a well-known local Facebook Page in Sullivan County on Sunday. Seen in the photo is a Hasidic man, changing the tire of a man he never met before on what appears to be Route 17 in the Catskills.
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A man is lucky to be alive on Friday, after his vehicle rolled off an embankment in Monsey.
It happened just after 12:00PM, at Route 306 and Blauvent Road.
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