This week Tuesday, August 27th through Thursday, August 29rd, Met Council will be giving away thousands of FREE kosher lunches in Boro Park and Williamsburg for kids. Grab a free box lunch for your kids aged 18 and under catered by Lou G.
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Three masked robbers held up a midtown Manhattan Jewelry store in broad daylight.
Police say the men posed as customers during the heist at Avianne & Co. Jewelers in the diamond district just after noon on Sunday.

The NYPD was investigating after some nasty and explicit graffiti was scrawled on the famed Mesiva Tiferes Yerushalayim building located at 147 East Broadway on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
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YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of the Kalisher Rebbe, HaRav Yosef Rosenbaum ZATZAL. He was 78.
His Shul, Bais Medrash “Ginzei Yosef” located on Avenue R in Flatbush, was well known in the area for more than 40 years.
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A man has been arrested on hate crime assault charges after police say he made anti-white comments while hitting a stranger in the face on a downtown Manhattan street and attacked two other people earlier.
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Rockland Chaverim are searching for a missing group of hikers in Harriman State Park.
With less than one hour to Shabbos, Chaverim have nearly two dozens trained hikers searching the trails and forest, trying to locate a father and his six children.

A husband and wife travelling to the Catskills for Shabbos were involved in a serious head-on crash, Friday afternoon.
It happened at around 4:55PM on Wurtsboro Mountain Road.
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During this past weeks hot weather, the junior boys of Ruach day camp in Flatbush – together with the assistant head counselor Yitzy Litvintchouk were giving out cold water bottles to the workers repairing the road in front of camp.
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A top-rated New York City pizza restaurant has reopened two days after it was shuttered by state officials over unpaid taxes.
The New York Post reports that Brooklyn’s Di Fara Pizza reopened Thursday after its owners worked out a payment plan to settle a $167,000 tax bill.

A serious crash resulted in only minor injuries on Route 6, Friday afternoon.
The crash happened just after 12:00PM on Route 6 heading Upstate – just before NY 17.
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