A gun that someone threw out of a bus landed outside a campaign office of New York City mayoral candidate and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, authorities said. The incident started at around 1:45 p.m. Sunday when two men got into an argument aboard a city bus on Nostrand Avenue in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, police said. One of the men pulled a gun, then dropped it on the floor of the bus and ran, a police spokesperson said. Someone then threw the gun out of the bus, police said. It landed outside the Brooklyn campaign office of Adams, a former police captain who is running for the Democratic nomination for mayor. “Dozens of volunteers and I were inside the office,” Adams’ chief of staff, Ryan Lynch, tweeted.

New York City will celebrate the essential workers who got the city through the coronavirus pandemic with a July 7 ticker tape parade up the Canyon of Heroes, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Monday. De Blasio, who promised in April 2020 — the pandemic’s worst month in New York — that the city would honor essential workers with a parade in 2021, said the time for the parade has come. “It’s time for the parade to celebrate our hometown heroes,” the Democratic mayor said at a virtual news briefing.

Brooklyn Boro President Eric Adams holds a seven point lead over former sanitation boss Kathryn Garcia in the NYC mayoral primary – and Adams would edge out Garcia to ultimately win the Democratic nomination after 12 rounds of ranked-choice votes are counted. That’s the result of a WNBC/Telemundo 47/POLITICO/Marist Poll, which shows Adams extending his lead over Garcia, Maya Wiley and Andrew Yang, with all other candidates far back in single digits. It was conducted after Wiley picked up a endorsements like Reps. Hakeem Jeffries and AOC. ADAMS: 24% GARCIA: 17% WILEY: 15% YANG: 13% ALL OTHER CANDIDATES: <7% (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

NYC Mayoral candidate Eric Adams visited the Ohel of the Lubavitcher Rebbe today, Gimmel Tamuz, the Yartzheit of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe. Adams was escorted by senior Crown Heights Jewish community leaders. As YWN has reported, Adams has received a unanimous endorsement from the entire Crown Heights Jewish Community. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
The post NYC Mayoral Candidate Eric Adams Visits Ohel On Gimmel Tamuz [VIDEOS & PHOTOS] appeared first on The Yeshiva World.

Candidates in New York City’s heavily contested Democratic mayoral primary on Saturday urged people to go to the polls in the coming days as early voting kicked off. The start of early voting around the state marks the homestretch to primary election day on June 22. As some city mayoral candidates voted, others spoke at a get-out-the-vote rally hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who is remaining neutral in the race. “Why on earth would you wait until the last day?” candidate Andrew Yang asked at the event. “You can vote right now. You can vote tomorrow. You can vote Monday. You can vote Tuesday. I don’t know about you all, but I would feel great having gotten it out of the way.” Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has topped some recent polls, though the 13-candidate race remains tight.

New Yorkers would avoid jail time for nonviolent parole violations, and children under age 12 could no longer be arrested as juveniles under bills that passed the state Legislature Thursday. The state Senate and Assembly passed the Less is More Act as state lawmakers wrapped up the end of the legislative session. The act would largely eliminate the practice of incarcerating people for technical parole violations in New York. The Assembly also passed a bill Thursday to end the arrest and prosecution of kids below the age of 12, except in homicide cases. That bill earlier passed the Senate. Under current state law, children can be charged as juvenile delinquents as young as age 7.

An 18-year-old teen was R”L killed when a speeding car crashed at an assisted living facility in Brooklyn late Thursday night, police said. The 2021 Tesla sedan was apparently traveling at a high rate of speed when it plowed through a fence and crashed at Sunrise at Mill Basin senior living community on Strickland Avenue in Mill Basin around 11:45 p.m., police said. Jack Levy, of Mill Basin, who was in the rear, passenger-side seat of the Tesla, was killed, according to police. Canarsie Hatzolah rushed him to the hospital in traumatic arrest, but he was unfortunately Niftar at the hospital. Sources tell YWN that the Niftar had graduated High School at Yeshiva of Flatbush just hours earlier.

A Jewish man was threatened by a man hurling anti-Semitic slurs on an East Flatbush Street this week, the NYPD says. The incident happened in front of the Darchei Menachem Yeshiva located at 432 Rutland Road in East Flatbush on Thursday morning. Police said the 30-year-old victim was outside the Yeshiva when a man came up and made threats and anti-Semitic statements to him around 10:15AM. No injuries were reported. The suspect was last seen walking along Rutland Road towards Brooklyn Avenue, police said. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating the incident. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

The driver who slammed into a Canarsie Hatzolah Amabulance on the last day of Pesach, flipping it over, and causing serious injuries to Hatzolah members, has been arrested and charged with multiple offenses. As YWN had reported, the ambulance was transporting an elderly cardiac arrest patient with CPR in progress to the hospital, when the ambulance was struck by a vehicle as it passed through an intersection. The force of the crash flipped the ambulance on its side. Fazal Zeshan, 18, was arrested on Wersnesday, and arraigned by the Kings County D.A.

Today, the FDNY-Uniformed Firefighters Association endorsed Andrew Yang for Mayor of New York City. The endorsement was announced by President of the FDNY-Uniformed Firefighters Andrew Ansbro joined by nearly 400 FDNY Firefighters in a rally and endorsement announcement. The FDNY-Uniformed Firefighters Association represents the labor rights for 20,000 active duty and retired New York Firefighters, and has been at the forefront of not only protecting the safety of our communities, but also the labor rights of those who risk their lives everyday to protect the City. Said Andrew Yang, “It is the honor of a lifetime to be endorsed by the 9,000 active firefighters and 25,000 retirees who bear the title of New York’s Bravest. Like every New Yorker, I am so grateful for our firefighters.