New York’s attorney general announced plans Thursday to sue New York City for $810 million for inflating the price of taxi medallions, which were marketed as a sure-fire investment before ride-hailing apps upended the taxi industry. Attorney General Letitia James filed a notice of claim against the city, which she said auctioned off medallions at artificially high prices between 2004 and 2017 and continued to market the medallions at overvalued rates even after internal reports raised warnings about inflated values. “Government should be a source of justice, not a vehicle for fraudulent practices,” said James, a Democrat.

One man was killed and another injured on Thursday after a collapse at a Queens demolition site, authorities said. The Fire Department of New York said it happened around 11:45 a.m at the site on 94th Avenue in the Jamaica section of Queens. One man was killed and another man was hospitalized in serious condition, the FDNY said. The New York Police Department said the two men were on the second floor when a wall collapsed. Their identities have not been released. The city Department of Buildings was investigating, and said a stop work order on the site had been issued on the site. The department said it had first been permitted for demolition at the end of November. (AP)

Videos were released today by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office of the hours-long Jersey City shootout that left one police officer and three civilians dead late last year. Four innocent people, including a veteran Jersey City police detective and father of five, died in the hail of gunfire that place on Dec. 10. Most of the victims were found inside the JC Kosher Supermarket on Martin Luther King Boulevard during what officials have described as a hate-fueled terror spree. The U.S. attorney in New Jersey and the head of the local FBI have said that the bomb found in the van of alleged domestic terrorists Francine Graham and David Anderson could have killed or maimed people up to five football fields away.

Thanks to alert Shomrim Volunteers, three thugs who had just robbed a Yeshiva boy at knifepoint were arrested, Thursday afternoon. It happened at around 5:00PM, when two suspects approached the teenage victim on Avenue L and East 14th Street displayed a knife and demanded his wallet and other valuables. The victim complied, and handed over his wallet, at which point the two suspects fled on foot. The victim immediately called Flatbush Shomrim and the NYPD, who began canvassing the area. Around 15 minutes later, a Flatbush Shomrim volunteer noticed three black males pacing nervously in the park on Avenue K and East 17th Street. The NYPD was notified, and they began to respond there with the victim to identify the men. At that point, the three suspects fled on foot.

The liberal democrats running New York State now have innocent blood on their hands, thanks to their insane bail reform laws. According to a report by LoHud, 25-year-old Blanchard Glaudin had been released free on a previous rape charge when he murdered 53-year-old Sandra Wilson inside the Finkelstein Library in Monsey earlier this week. Glaudin had been released under the new bail reforms after being accused of trying to rape a woman at Montefiore Nyack Hospital in November. Nyack Justice Robert Knoebel had set Glaudin’s bail at $100,000 and he was held as Gaudin Blanchard in the county jail from Dec. 20 until Dec. 26, until a County Court judge released him without bail under the criminal justice reforms.

New York City’s police commissioner during the Sept. 11 attacks said Wednesday he started crying when President Donald Trump pardoned him for felony convictions that put him behind bars for three years, aware he got a break other ex-convicts never see. Bernard Kerik said felony convictions, a prison stint and its aftermath taught himthose convicted of crimes face tens of thousands of knock-on effects. The American Bar Association has cataloged 45,000 “collateral consequences.” “That conviction lives with you eternally until the day you die,” he said in a telephone interview. “People talk about second chances. You don’t really get a second chance.

Construction crews working in the Kew Gardens Hills section of Queens struck a high-pressure gas main on Wednesday afternoon. It happened in the area of Main Street & 68th Drive. There were evacuations as a precaution. Jewish stores and business as well as Jewish schools were being evacuated. In one video provided to YWN, the Sifrei Torah were being removed from the “Jewish Heritage Center of Queens”, and placed into the vehicle of a Queens Hatzalah volunteer. Con Edison crews are on scene attempting to shut off the natural gas main. FDNY EMS staging area is located at the intersection of Jewel Avenue and Main Street. Expect traffic delays, road closures and a heavy presence of emergency personnel on Main Street between Jewel Avenue and Melbourne Avenue in Queens.

A Jewish woman was one of two who were tragically killed after the car they were in plunged off a Miami ferry into the waters off an exclusive island with a members-only club. Miami Fire Rescue and the U.S. Coast Guard responded Tuesday after the operator of the Fisher Island ferry reported that a vehicle had fallen off the boat, the agencies reported. Dive crews found the vehicle near Fisher Island within hours, according to the Coast Guard. Two unresponsive women were discovered inside. The vehicle, a 2019 blue Mercedes Benz, and the bodies were recovered overnight, a statement from the Miami-Dade Police Department said Wednesday. One of the victims – identified as a Jewish woman from New York (Westchester) – is Viviane Brahms, 75. The other woman in the vehicle is Emma Afra, 63.

A new study finds that New York and New Jersey are losing more residents than any other states. The career website Zippia looked at the population data from the Census’ American Community Survey to determine the states with the largest population decrease from 2017 to 2018, which is the most recent data available. New York topped the list, losing 307,190 residents, and New Jersey came in second with 97,124 residents moving out. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A person was stabbed at the Finkelstein Library on Tuesday afternoon. Monsey Hatzolah was working on the victim reportedly in traumatic arrest. The victim is reportedly a non-Jewish employee at the library. Sources tell YWN that Jewish employees held down the attacker who was taken into custody by Ramapo Police. Rockland Chaveirim are on scene as well. DEVELOPING STORY – REFRESH FOR UPDATES
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