The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is once again investigating a bias attack – this time in the heart of the Flatbush Jewish Community.
The NYPD tells YWN that is happened on Avenue J and East 15th Street on Shabbos (Saturday) evening, around 7:00PM.

A 76-year-old Connecticut man is walking from Yankee Stadium to Fenway Park in an effort to promote peace and not just between the two fan bases.
Al Forte, of Stamford, Connecticut, tells the Providence Journal , he’s asking people along the way to pray for peace on earth, handing out cards showing six soldiers praying.

Another Hasidic man in Crown Heights has been attacked with a rock, and the NYPD is investigating the incident as a possible hate crime.
The NYPD says that a man may have been attacked by 4-5 individuals, who fled the scene.
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New York City police say officers shot and killed a man who fired a gun at their vehicle as they looked for a shooting suspect in Queens.
Chief of Department Terence Monahan says officers exited their unmarked car and returned fire, striking the man in the head at around 2:20 a.m.

The second span of the new Kosciuszko Bridge between Brooklyn and Queens has opened to traffic.
The span opened early Thursday.
A ceremony on Wednesday night included a light show with music from Billy Joel via satellite from Madison Square Garden.
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New York City’s largest police union says the mayor and police commissioner should lose their jobs over the firing last week of an officer in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner.
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The Facebook page of the Republican Party in Rockland County caught the attention of New York’s top prosecutor with a video message against a multi-family development that has been deemed as anti-Semitic by members of the Jewish community and others.

New York softened penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana and created a process for erasing certain past offenses in a state law that went into place Wednesday.
The maximum penalty for possessing less than an ounce of pot has been lowered to $50.
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Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand is dropping out of the presidential race as a campaign that once looked poised to ride strong #MeToo credentials to formidability was instead plagued by low polling and major fundraising struggles.
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As YWN reported on Tuesday, the NYPD are looking for the man that attacked 63-year-old Rabbi Abraham Gopin at Lincoln Terrace Park in Crown Heights around 8:00AM, Tuesday morning.
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