An elderly man is in critical condition after he was struck by a vehicle in Flatbush, Wednesday morning.
The NYPD tells YWN that the 70-year-old man on his bike was hit around 10:15 a.m.
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Two Hasidic men were attacked in Brooklyn on Wednesday, simply for taking a video.
According to one of the victims, the two men witnessed a man having a fight with someone, and began filming the incident while sitting in their vehicle – on Broadway near Madison Street in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn.

A Hatzolah vehicle belonging to a Hatzolah volunteer in Boro Park had his car stolen, before it crashed a few blocks later, Tuesday night.
Sources tell YWN that the vehicle was parked on 50th Street and 13th Avenue where the Hatzolah member had gone inside a home (not on a call).

A video has gone viral of a Rebbe in a Yeshiva in Monsey beating a student, who appears to be around 15 years old. The boy is seen (in the very unclear video) on the floor, and the Rebbe then screaming at him to leave the classroom.

A small plane crashed and exploded in a residential neighborhood in the New Jersey suburbs of New York City on Tuesday morning, setting two houses ablaze and leaving the pilot unaccounted for.
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Delta Air Lines’ new Terminal C is opening at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, part of an $8 billion project to modernize the entire facility.
Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined Delta CEO Ed Bastian and other officials for a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday.
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Happy anniversary, New York City subway!
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is marking the 115th anniversary of the opening of the first rapid transit subway.
The subway line running along Manhattan’s east side connecting City Hall with Harlem opened on Oct.
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Senator Simcha Felder (D-Midwood) and Assemblywomen Aileen Gunther (D-Forestburgh) introduced legislation (S6802) that would increase the Volunteer Firefighter and EMS State income tax credit for the first time in 12 years.

A man who attacked a New York City police officer with a metal chair, critically injuring him, was fatally shot by the officer on Friday, police officials said.
The officer fired after efforts to subdue the man with a Taser were unsuccessful, Chief of Patrol Rodney Harrison said.

The following is via News 12:
A candidate for the County Legislature in Rockland is drawing fire after he made what some say was a controversial and racist remark on a radio show earlier this month.