After tremendous efforts by Williamsburg’s Councilman Stephen T. Levin, Chair of the General Welfare Committee, Speaker Corey Johnson and the de Blasio administration – a much-needed increase in the Special Child Care Funding was secured in the FY20 City budget that was announced today.

Beginning Monday, June 17, Senator Felder’s Flatbush office will be assisting anyone who would like to check the status of his or her driver’s license, every Monday through Thursday from 9:30 A.M.
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The home was an inferno in seconds. By the time the FDNy arrived at the scene at Thursday’s arson fire in Flatbush, one home was fully engulfed in flames.
We now know that an accelerant was used, as the NYPD and Fire Marshals made an arrest on Saturday night of Matthew Karelefsky, of McKeesport, Pa.

12 people were injured when the vehicle they were travelling in overturned on Glen Wild Road in Rock Hill on Motzei Shabbos.
According to the Rock Hill Fire Department, no one was trapped in the vehicle.
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A United Airlines flight blew out some its tires and skidded on a runway Saturday at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, leading to delays while the plane was towed away, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
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Both Flatbush (FSSP) and Boro Park Shomrim (BSSP) will be having their annual bike etching registrations this Sunday.
If a stolen bike is recovered by Shomrim, they will be able to locate its proper owner through the numbers etched in your bike.

New York City police say a 29-year-old officer died Friday in the department’s third suicide in less than two weeks.
Police say he shot himself in the head around 3:45 p.m.
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The NYPD along with the FDNY Fire marshals made an arrest on Saturday night in the arson fire in Flatbush.
Sources confirmed to YWN that Matthew Karlefsky was taken into custody.
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This is how children R”L get killed.
This incident occurred in Boro Park this week, as a school bus had stopped to drop off children returning home from Yeshiva.
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Police are looking for a man that inappropriately touched a woman while walking on a Boro Park street earlier this week.
The NYPD says that on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 at 7:49AM, a 24-year-old female was walking in the vicinity of 54th Street near 20th Ave when an unidentified male inappropriately touched her.