New York’s City Council will consider a bill to ban the sale of cellphone users’ location data to marketers.
The New York Times reports that the bill to be introduced Tuesday would make it illegal for cellphone companies and app developers to share location data with third parties while a customer’s mobile device is within city limits.

Tragedy struck Kiryas Joel on Tuesday afternoon, after a child was killed in a horrible incident.
It happened on Tuesday afternoon at around 3:00PM at the Bais Rochel School on Israel Zupnik Drive, when a closet reportedly fell on top of a 7-year-old child (female).

YWN is sad to report the untimely death of Dr. Mark Lebowitz who was killed in an auto accident on Monday morning.
Dr. Lebowitz had a large practice in Brooklyn as well as being in charge of the Brooklyn Eye Surgery Center on Avenue J in Flatbush, with 35 ophthalmologists.

An early morning crash has left a Jewish man with critical injuries.
It happened at around 5:00AM on the Tappan Zee Bridge / NYS Thruway.
Sources tell YWN that there were two occupants in the vehicle travelling from Monsey to NYC.
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There is outage in NYC after videos surfaced showing NYPD officers being assaulted in two different incidents – with police doing nothing in response.
The videos, first tweeted by the popular @NYScanner Twitter account which is followed by more than 100K, showed disturbing footage of police officers being attacked in NYC.

As was predicted, dangerous thunderstorms ripped through the tri-state area, hitting Lakewood and NYC at around 6:30PM, Monday evening.
Flash flood warnings, and severe thunderstorm warning were issued by the national Weather Service.

Leaders of the Boro Park Jewish Community Council (BPJCCC), Parents for Educational and Religious Liberty in Schools (PEARLS), Agudath Israel, and United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg (UJO) addressed members of the frum media today and urged continued vigilance and advocacy against new regulations released by the State Department of Education (SED).

As a follow-up to the help that Chaveirim of Rockland County offered to YAGILU last week, when one of their campers went missing while on a hiking trip, Chaveirim of Rockland County came to Camp Yagilu Wilderness for some wilderness training.

Two minivans collided on Route 52 in the Catskills, Monday morning, sending 5 people to the hospital.
It happened at around 11:50AM, on Route 52 near Synagogue Road (between Woodbourne and Ellenville), when one of the vehicles pulled out of a driveway, and got hit by an oncoming vehicle.

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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