BROOKLYN (VINnews) — Three suspects are in custody, after they terrorized and mugged a Yeshiva student at knifepoint Thursday afternoon. The incident occurred on Ave L and E 14th Street in Flatbush. At approximately 5:00 PM on Thursday, the Yeshiva boy was walking when he was approached by two thugs who brandished a knife and […]

TROY, N.Y. (AP) — A college student was found dead in his home of the flu after a garbled 911 call left rescuers with no means of locating him, authorities said. Police and firefighters in Troy, New York, spent 45 minutes on Feb. 10 searching the City Station apartment complex where Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute graduate […]

SPRING VALLEY (VINnews) — The 25-year-old who stabbed a female security guard to death in the Finkelstein Memorial Library in Spring Valley after she asked him to lower his music, was no stranger to violent crime. Blanchard Glaudin was previously charged with attempted rape while he was a patient at Montefiore Nyack Hospital in November, […]

SPRING VALLEY (VINnews) — The Monsey community was shaken on Tuesday after the news broke that a fatal stabbing had occurred inside the Finkelstein Library in Spring Valley. As much as such a heinous crime can never ever be justified, the shock and outrage surrounding the incident was escalated dramatically by the revelation of the […]

KEW GARDEN HILLS (VINnews) — The Kew Garden Hills community of Queens was inconvenienced on Wednesday, after a construction crew accidentally struck high-pressure gas main, causing evacuations across the area. The incident occurred on Main St and 68th Drive on Wednesday afternoon. There were no injuries reported due to the rupture, but authorities evacuated local […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — New York City is hoping that a new ad campaign will make Jewish New Yorkers feel comfortable despite a recent spate of anti-Semitic attacks. The campaign, launched Wednesday by the city’s Commission on Human Rights, consists of four ads each featuring a photograph of a different Jewish New Yorker and a […]

MONSEY (VINnews) — A stabbing occurred in Monsey on Tuesday afternoon, leaving one person in serious condition. The stabbing took place inside the Finkelstein Library, located at 24 Chestnut St in Spring Valley. According to reports, the victim was a non-Jewish employee of the library. After the attack, Jewish employees at the library held down […]

QUEENS (VINnews) — An off-duty NYPD detective hanged himself at his mother’s house in Queens on Monday. The detective had many years on the job, according to a report by the post. The detective’s name was not immediately released, as the family had not yet been notified. According to a source close to the incident, […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general said Sunday the state will not appeal a judge’s decision approving the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. Attorney General Letitia James and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra led a coalition of 14 attorneys general who sued to stop T-Mobile’s purchase of Sprint for $26.5 billion. They argued […]

COLORADO SPRINGS (JTA) – An 18-year-old pingpong star may have to skip this year’s Olympics because the U.S. trials are scheduled for Shabbat and she is an Orthodox Jew. While many Orthodox Jews will informally play sports on Shabbat, they generally do not take part in organized competition. Estee Ackerman, who won the women’s division […]