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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The worst heat wave of the year has seized the tri-state, threatening three consecutive days of heat in the mid-to-high 90s, though it’ll feel more like a sauna, with stifling humidity making it feel like 104 degrees at a minimum.
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You may have heard that the New York State Education Department recently published proposed Regulations about “substantial equivalency of instruction” required for students attending nonpublic schools.
This can have severe ramifications for yeshivos and day schools across the board in NYS, so we wanted to provide some answers to common questions we are receiving about this serious development.

The weather service is forecasting a heat wave for the next few days. As of now, the worst two days, will be Shabbos & Sunday. We appeal to everyone that is here in the city to stay indoors as much as possible and to keep the air conditioners running.

The Deal NJ community is on edge, after many high-end vehicle were stolen recently, with the rash of thefts continuing.
As YWN reported at the end of June, expensive vehicles were stolen, including a Porsche SUV, a Range Rover an an Audi.

An alleged Crips gang member has been convicted in the ambush shooting of an FBI agent in Brooklyn.
A federal jury on Wednesday found 31-year-old Ronell Watson guilty of attempted murder of a federal officer, assault of a federal agent and use of a firearm in the commission of a violent crime.