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Fast Forward Brooklyn Man Beaten For Defending Jewish Couple On Subway
Jean Wolfman was left with a cut to the head that required 10 stitches to close after stepping in to prevent a group of subway dancers from harassing an older Jewish couple. According to Wolfman, the dancers started menacing an older man and his wife after the man did not tip them after they did…
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Fast Forward NYC Council Zoning Chair Keeps Separate Campaign Fund For Real Estate Cash
David Greenfield, who chairs the New York City Council’s powerful Committee on Land Use, has a separate campaign account that allows him to skirt city rules and accept contributions from real estate companies, the New York Observer reported Monday. The account in question has received $308,641.71 –- much of it from city developers – and…
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News A Jewish Hipster Haven Grows In Brooklyn’s Chabad Heartland
NEW YORK (JTA) — Soon after Nechama Levy moved to Brooklyn five years ago, she opened a bicycle repair shop. The spacious, high-ceilinged store was just down the street from a new pub with exposed brick walls. Like many who have moved recently to the rapidly gentrifying borough, Levy, 33, was drawn to the area’s relatively…
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Fast Forward Jewish Builder Charged With Manslaughter After Brooklyn Construction Death
Michael Weiss was indicted Wednesday on charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after the Brooklyn construction honcho’s failure to ensure safe conditions led to the death of one of his workers. Fernando Vanegaz died while helping with a demolition on Myrtle Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant – Weiss’s RSBY NY Builders firm was looking to redevelop…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn’s ‘Worst Landlord’ Jailed For $450K Bribery And Threats
Herman Epstein, a notorious Brooklyn slumlord, was sentenced to up to six years in prison after being found guilty of bribing city officials to avoid making necessary repairs — and threatening tenants to force them to move. He even told one tenant he would spread rumors about her engaging in incest if she didn’t get…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Park Named For Rapper Adam Yauch Holding Weekend Party
The Brooklyn park named for the late Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch, perhaps better known as “MCA,” will be throwing a party this Sunday for local residents to eat, play and listen to the rap group’s hits. “The park event is a time to really reflect on Adam’s life, appreciate his ongoing influence in the…
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Fast Forward Arsonist Torches Brooklyn Jewish School’s Bus — Using Religious Books
ted a fire in a Jewish school’s bus in Brooklyn using religious books he found in the vehicle. The incident from last week in the Williamsburg neighborhood was first reported by the New York media on Wednesday. The arsonist broke into the emergency exit of the parked bus in the early evening, the New York…
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Fast Forward Brooklyn Synagogue Caretaker Beaten Bloody And Robbed of $300
A caretaker at a Brooklyn synagogue was beaten and robbed early Sunday morning, sending him to the hospital. Two men entered the Beis Menachem Mendel synagogue in the Midwood neighborhood through a broken window before dawn and woke the sleeping 53-year-old caretaker, police said. They beat the worker with a metal garden tool, leaving him…
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