Eight cars of a New York City-bound commuter train derailed early Tuesday, leading to delays during the morning rush hour. No injuries were reported. The NJ Transit derailment happened in Perth Amboy around 12:20 a.m. as North Jersey Coast Line Train 3292 headed to New York’s Penn Station from Long Branch, agency spokesperson Jim Smith said. The cars remained upright, and none of the seven passengers on board or the crew were injured, Smith said. The cause of the derailment is being investigated, Smith said. Service on the line was suspended between South Amboy and New York Penn Station. Bus service was available between South Amboy and Metropark. Rail passes were being honored on buses. Trains were operating on a weekday schedule between South Amboy and Bay Head. (AP)

A homeless man accused of pushing another man onto subway tracks in Brooklyn was arrested early Tuesday, police said. Michael Medlock, 33, was arrested on charges of attempted assault, reckless endangerment and menacing in Sunday’s attack on a 29-year-old man, one of a string of recent subway shoves. Police said the victim was riding a No. 4 train when Medlock suddenly began yelling at him. Both got off at the Atlantic Avenue station and Medlock shoved the other man onto the tracks and fled, police said. The victim climbed back onto the platform on his own and did not require medical attention. It wasn’t clear if Medlock had an attorney who could speak for him.

The Satmar Shul that reportedly hosted a secret wedding with thousands of unmasked guests earlier this month is facing a hefty fine. Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday that Congregation Yetev Lev in Williamsburg has been fined a whopping $15,000. “We know it was too big. I don’t have an exact figure, but whatever it was, it was too big. There appeared to be a real effort to conceal it, which is absolutely unacceptable,” de Blasio said Monday night on NY-1, adding, “That’s just not acceptable. I mean, we’ve been through so much. And in fact, the Williamsburg community in recent weeks responded very positively, did a lot more testing and was being very responsible. This was amazingly irresponsible, just unacceptable.

David Dinkins, New York City’s first and only Black mayor has died at 93. TNBC New York reports that Dinkins’ health aide found him unresponsive in his Lenox Hill apartment Monday night, having apparently died of natural causes. The former mayor died a little more than a month after his wife, Joyce Dinkins, passed away. During his term as mayor from 1990 to 1993, Dinkins vowed to be “mayor of all the people of New York,” and declared: “We are all foot soldiers on the march to freedom.”
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Just one day after NY Governor Cuomo blasted Satmar and threatened legal action for holding a “secret wedding” in Williamsburg that had around 7,000 participants, New York State Officials are warning Satmar that they better cancel a massive Chasunah planned for tonight in Kiryas Yoel. New York officials ordered the Yetev Lev D’Satmar congregation in Monroe to cancel “four large wedding ceremonies” scheduled for Monday evening where thousands of people are expected to attend — unless the ceremonies can be held following strict adherence to coronavirus safety guidelines.

A young woman has died and six other people were wounded in a shooting at an apartment building in Brooklyn that followed an earlier shooting near a Sweet 16 birthday party, police said. The first shooting happened shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday in the East New York neighborhood and left a 17-year-old boy wounded in the leg, New York Police Department Deputy Chief Michael Kemper said during a news conference. It wasn’t known what prompted that shooting. The second shooting took place about 11:15 p.m. in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, and police said it’s believed to be related to the first shooting. A 20-year-old woman was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead, police said.

On Monday, Mayor Bill de Blasio predicted the entire city was heading for an orange zone designation as early as next week. This followed Governor Andrew Cuomo’s press conference the day before where he said parts of Staten Island were headed into a red zone. That means schools, indoor dining, salons and gyms would all close. There would also be capacity limits inside houses of worship. Mayor de Blasio said that the city will be working to reopen schools, even as it heads towards the orange zone. Governor Cuomo also said parts of Upper Manhattan and Long Island are likely to advance to a yellow zone. The test positivity rate in the focus areas under NY's Micro-Cluster strategy is 4.48%. The statewide positivity rate excluding these focus areas is 2.73%.

The following is an unedited article Associated Press about the now international news story regarding the massive Satmar wedding that was recently held in Williamsburg. (YWN published an article earlier Sunday after NY Governor Cuomo slammed the wedding in his daily press conference, and after it was reported as far away as Australian TV.) Cuomo: Massive Orthodox wedding in Brooklyn ‘disrespectful’ A Brooklyn synagogue should be investigated over reports that it hosted a secret wedding with thousands of unmasked guests earlier this month, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. “If that happened, it was a blatant disregard of the law,” Cuomo said during a briefing in New York City. “It’s illegal.

Prosecutors in New York say they will seek the death penalty against a mid-level leader of the notorious MS-13 street gang accused in a string of brutal slayings. According to a new federal court filing, the Justice Department has given authorization to bring a capital punishment case against Jairo Saenz. There was no immediate response on Saturday to a message seeking comment from Saenz’s attorney. The 24-year-old Saenz was second in command of a gang clique based in central Long Island, court papers say. He’s charged in connection with seven murders, including those of two girls who were attacked with a machete and baseball bats as they walked through their suburban neighborhood.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that “Staten Island is a serious problem” and that parts of the borough could become an orange or red zone “this week.” “Unless they dramatically change the trajectory of the infection rate, this week they will go into those zones,” Cuomo said at a briefing. “Staten Island is a serious problem,” the governor said. “Staten Island is also a problem in terms of overburdening hospitals, and we’re running into a hospital capacity issue on Staten Island that we have to be dealing with over these next few days.” To reach an orange zone in New York City, an area would have to hit a 3% positivity rate on a seven-day average and stay at that level for 10 days. The percentage for a red zone designation is a seven-day average of 4% for 10 days. (Source: 1010WINS)