An early morning shooting near the Rutgers University campus in New Jersey killed two people and wounded six others, authorities said Sunday. Middlesex County prosecutors and New Brunswick police said officers responding to the scene shortly before 1:30 a.m. Sunday found eight people with apparent gunshot wounds. The victims were taken to various hospitals and two male victims were pronounced dead at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, police said Police and prosecutors said the investigation so far indicates that “there is no affiliation with Rutgers University or its students.” WABC-TV reported that the gunfire occurred at an off-campus party when someone started shouting and then fired a number of shots.

YWN rgerets to inform you of the Petira of Mrs. Devora Leah Hecht A”H, wife of Rabbi Pinchus Hecht, the Executive Director of the Mirrer Yeshiva in Flatbush. She was 59. Her children are Chayale, Tzpori, Rivky, Tova, Avigayil, Batsheva, Miriam and her son, Yossie. She was the daughter of HaRav Yeshaya Siff, the well-known Rov in the Lower East Side. The Levaya will take place on Sunday, September 13th at 11:45 a.m. in the TAG Elementary School, 444 Beach 6th Street Far Rockaway NY. The Kevurah will be at Beth Moses Cemetery -Wellwood Boruch Dayan HaEmmes… The Levaya will be live streamed here. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

New Jersey drivers should expect to reach for a little extra pocket change when taking the state’s major highways starting Sunday. Construction and labor groups supported the plan, while environmental groups and some motorists criticized it. The higher tolls will fund a $24 billion construction plan that includes $16 billion to widen sections of the turnpike and parkway, permanently implement cashless toll payment and replace a bridge between New Jersey and Pennsylvania. The toll hike was approved by the New Jersey Turnpike Authority back in May, and was signed by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy. Atlantic City Expressway tolls will increase an average of 57 cents. Garden State Parkway tolls will rise by 27%, increasing the cost of an average trip by 30 cents from $1.11.

Americans commemorated 9/11 on Friday as another national crisis, the coronavirus, reconfigured ceremonies and as a presidential campaign carved a path through the memorials. In New York, victims’ relatives gathered Friday morning for split-screen remembrances at the World Trade Center’s Sept. 11 memorial plaza and on a nearby corner, set up by separate organizations that differed on balancing tradition with virus safety. Standing on the plaza, with its serene waterfall pools and groves of trees, Jin Hee Cho said she couldn’t erase the memory of the death of her younger sister, Kyung, in the 2001 terrorist attack that destroyed the trade center’s twin towers. “It’s just hard to delete that in my mind.

The New York City teachers union warns it won’t let the nation’s largest school district reopen for in-person classes this month if the city doesn’t issue protective equipment, conduct testing and clean schools properly. Union leader Michael Mulgrew in a Friday video accuses the city of not acting with enough urgency on the pandemic. The return of public school students to classrooms was delayed from Sept. 10 to Sept. 21 so coronavirus safety precautions could be worked on further. Mulgrew says the city knows what it needs to do to make schools safe and, in his words, “if you can’t make that happen before the children come into schools, then we’re not going to let you open these schools.” (AP)

The largest container ship ever to call on a U.S. east coast port was headed to New Jersey on Saturday, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced. The 1,200-foot (366-meter) CMA CGM Brazil will dock at the Elizabeth-Port Authority Marine Terminal carrying cargo that includes clothing, pharmaceuticals, furniture, toys, holiday decorations and food, the authority said in a news release. Build this year, the Brazil is longer than four New York City blocks and wider than a football field at 167 feet (51 meters) wide. The container ship sailed from Sri Lanka and berthed at Halifax, Nova Scotia on Thursday before heading to the New York-New Jersey area. (AP)

The 9/11 Memorial Museum opened to the public on Saturday for the first time since cultural institutions across New York City shut down six months ago to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The museum at the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan first reopened to family members only on Friday, the 19th anniversary of the terrorist attack that destroyed the trade center’s twin towers, before welcoming the general public on Saturday. Visitors have to wear masks, and only 25% of the museum’s maximum capacity is permitted inside. The museum has always required timed entry tickets purchased in advance, which will continue.

Rudy Giuliani’s 34-year-old son Andrew Giuliani said he’s considering running for New York City mayor in 2021. The son of the former mayor told the New York Post, “I am certainly thinking about it. It’s something that a bunch of people that I trust have approached me with.” Giuliani said Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration “has failed New York as he does not value the New York Police Department and he does not value what they have done for the city.” He pointed to the disbanding of the NYPD’s plainclothes anti-crime unit as well as budget cuts to the department. “It’s been terrible to see over the last few years how the city has spiraled. I am afraid if the right candidate doesn’t win in 2021, four more years of de Blasio’s policies will remind us of the 80s,” he said.

Then a celebrity NYC real estate tycoon, Donald Trump gave an interview at Ground zero just 2 days after the terror attack on September 11, 2001. Trump described the devastation and said he had hundreds of his own workers helping with rescue efforts. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
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The following are excerpts of a Wall Street Journal article, and re-posted from the YWN archives: FIVE FLOORS ABOVE, Shimmy Biegeleisen phoned his wife from his office at money-management firm Fiduciary Trust International Inc. “There’s been an explosion next door,” the 42-year-old vice president said. “Don’t worry. I’m OK.” After a few minutes, Mr. Biegeleisen grabbed his black canvas bag, walked past a cluster of cubicles and headed toward the stairwell. But when he reached the doorway — a step behind a project manager who worked for him — he stopped, leaned his big body against the open metal door and rummaged through his bag. “Whatever you’re looking for, it’s not important,” the manager told her boss. “Please come.” She started down the stairs.