The second span of the new Kosciuszko Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens will open to traffic in September.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the end date Monday during a visit to the worksite.
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Just five days after suffering serious injuries in a fall from a second floor window in a Spring Valley home, two young brothers returned home on Tuesday evening.
As YWN reported last week, the two boys, ages 5 and 2, were leaning on a screen in a window which gave way, leading to their fall. 

The High Court of Justice has seen the evidence presented by petitioner Amit Halevi, who is challenging Yahadut Hatorah’s eighth seat. The court on Tuesday instructed the Central Election Committee to respond to Halevi’s documentation pertaining to alleged chareidi election tampering.

In a time when anti-Semitism is rearing its ugly head both in the city and around the county, it’s painful when it comes from an NYPD Traffic Agent.
A motorist contacted YWN and told us that he was on 57th Street and Park Avenue at 6:00PM Tuesday night, trying to get into the Queens Midtown Tunnel.

In a show of interfaith unity, faith leaders from across the city gathered on the steps of City Hall Tuesday afternoon to call for security funding for houses of worship.
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A shooting at a suburban Denver middle school injured seven people Tuesday, and two suspects were in custody, authorities said.
Douglas County Undersheriff Holly Nicholson-Kluth says there is a possible eighth injury and doesn’t believe there are any other shooters, but tactical teams were still searching room by room.

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The accompanying video begins with newspaper clippings showing how terrorists who struck inside Green Line Israel, residents of the PA (Palestinian Authority), were indeed inside ‘Israel proper’ illegally, without authorization.

President Donald Trump has pardoned a former U.S. soldier convicted in 2009 of killing an Iraqi prisoner, the White House announced Monday.
Trump signed an executive grant of clemency, a full pardon, for former Army 1st Lt.
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Faith leaders from around New York state plan to gather at the state Capitol to denounce solitary confinement of prisoners.
The organizers behind Tuesday’s event say they’ll bring together clergy from several different faiths to call on lawmakers to abolish solitary imprisonment, which they say is a cruel practice that leaves life-long psychological scars.

On the evening of Tisha B’Av 5708, Pinchas Soloveitchik, the only soldier who served in the Irgun and was killed in the breach of the wall near Mount Tzion in the War of Independence.
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