Gov. Andrew Cuomo and transit officials cut the ribbon Wednesday on a gleaming new train hub that will give travelers an alternative to cramped, dingy Penn Station across the street. The Moynihan Train Hall takes up 255,000 square feet (23,690 square meters) of what formerly served as a mail sorting and loading area in the James A. Farley Post Office building, once New York’s main postal center from the early 20th century. Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road will use the new hall, which connects to Penn Station under Eighth Avenue to the east and provides access from Ninth Avenue to the west and to the Eighth Avenue subway. It’s named after late New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a public transit advocate who pushed for the project in the 1990s.

A New York City police officer shot and killed a machete-wielding man who allegedly attacked a woman and a dog and then rushed at officers Tuesday, the department said. The shooting in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood was the second police shooting in the borough in as many days, after an officer shot and wounded a man in the leg in central Brooklyn on Monday. NYPD Chief of Detectives Juanita Holmes said officers responded to multiple 911 calls about a man who was “acting erratic, laying on the ground, damaging parked vehicles, attempting to enter one caller’s front yard and chasing people in the area with the machete.” A woman walking her dog was attacked by the man, Holmes said, suffering deep cuts to her head and both hands. Her dog was cut in the shoulder.

New York’s Finest indeed! NYPD Inspector Emanuel (Manny) Gonzalez was out for a bike ride when he saw pages of a holy Jewish text scattered across the street. He collected them, and then called NYC Councilman Chaim Deutsch to find out how to respectfully dispose of the holy book. Watch the video below. JOIN THE TENS OF THOUSANDS WHO ALREADY ARE ALERTED OF BREAKING NEWS LIKE THIS IN LIVE TIME: YWN WHATSAPP STATUS UPDATES: CLICK HERE to join the YWN WhatsApp Status. YWN WHATSAPP GROUPS: CLICK HERE to be added to an official YWN WhatsApp Group. New York’s Finest indeed!@NYPDnews Inspector Manny Gonzalez was out for a bike ride when he saw pages of a holy Jewish text scattered across the street. He collected them, and then called me to find out how to respectfully dispose of the holy book.

We are amid another recurrence of Covid-19 cases here in Rockland County. This current surge has affected members in the community of various ages from younger to older. It has also led to many more hospitalizations than the last recurrence. The treatment options for patients in all hospitals has increased and patients are being well cared for. – There are currently over 40 Covid cases in Nyack Hospital and over 40 in GSH. There are over 7 ICU cases in each hospital. The city and Jersey hospitals are seeing many cases as well. – There is a new variant of the virus that has been seen in Eretz Yisroel and England that is affecting younger people as well and causing more serious symptoms. We have not seen cases here at this time, but it is important to be aware that this is a concern.

If anyone still has any question what NYC has descended into under the leadership of Socialist Mayor Bill DeBlasio, one just need to see the attached videos. According to eye-witnesses who took to twitter to report what they saw, it happened on Tuesday when a large group of youths on bicycles shut down traffic at 5th Avenue & 21st Street in Manhattan. The car had Physician license plates and was occupied by a son who was taking his elderly mother to see the X-mas lights in Manhattan. The pack of thugs reportedly hung onto the moving car to “catch a ride” when the driver slammed on the brakes, causing one rider to crash. That is what apparently sparked the violent attack. Watch how the group began banging on the windows, the hood and doors.

The NYPD are searching for a man who allegedly wrote “derogatory phrases” at four Shuls over the past weekend. The NYPD tells YWN that that on Shabbos, December 26, 2020, between 12:20AM and 1:30AM, an unknown individual made graffiti using a marker on four different Shuls in Flatbush / Midwood. The four Shuls include the Young Israel of Midwood (1694 Ocean Avenue), the Bostoner Shul (2822 Avenue J), Rabbi Weinfeld’s Shul (2201 Avenue L) and Rabbi Kahn’s Shul (1720 Avenue J). At all locations the suspect made graffiti, and at Rabbi Kahan’s Shul, the suspect also damaged two cabinets, and removed approximately $20. The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.

Heralded as the safest big city in America in recent years, New York City is closing out its bloodiest year in nearly a decade, grappling with a surge in homicides and a pandemic authorities say has helped fuel violence. The city had recorded 447 killings as of Tuesday, a 41% increase over last year and the largest number since 2011. The number of people shot has more than doubled last year’s total, nearing a 14-year high. Among the victims: a 1-year-old boy sitting in his stroller at a summer cookout; a 53-year-old teacher walking his dog; and a 43-year-old mother looking out the window of her child’s third-floor bedroom. All three were killed by stray bullets. The carnage, however startling, pales in comparison to the bullet-riddled years of the early 1990s.

New York will freeze evictions and certain foreclosures for two months under a new law that the state’s governor signed Monday. Renters who are facing pending evictions — or who face evictions in the next 30 days — will be protected from eviction for at least 60 days. And the new law will also suspend evictions until May 1 for renters who submit signed paperwork stating they’ve faced hardship amid the coronavirus pandemic. New Yorkers could point to hardships ranging from significant loss of household income, to increased out-of-pocket health expenses, to caregiving responsibilities, to the risk that moving itself poses for individuals with underlying medical conditions that leave them vulnerable to COVID-19.

A New York City police officer shot and wounded a man on Monday evening who police said rushed at officers but did not ultimately have a gun. Officers had received multiple 911 calls about a man with a gun in central Brooklyn, NYPD Chief of Department Terence Monahan told reporters. Upon arrival, officers saw a man who did not match the callers’ description holding a gun up the block from the reported address and took him into custody. As they were taking the man into custody, “the suspect yelled out, quote, ‘He coming, he gonna blast me,’” Monahan said. Officers saw a second person who matched the callers’ description rush toward them, Monahan said, adding that the interaction was caught on body cameras.

Diversity and Inclusion and Getting Assaulted in Target: Has the Pendulum Swung Too Far the Other Way? I was shopping with my wife at a Target store in Brooklyn, NY yesterday on Flatbush Ave. As we were headed out, my wife went to the checkout line to pay and I headed to the restroom. We were perhaps 25 feet from security at the front of the store. A women with a shopping cart at an angle going the “wrong way” blocked my natural path so I went in the opposite lane of shopper traffic. I attempted to pass two African American men in the other “lane” by going all the way to the outside.