NYC Councilman Kalman Yeger got fed up with ConEd blocking a street in his district and tossed their barricades aside. Then he got into it with ConEd on Twitter.
The incident occurred Wednesday at 44th street and 15th Avenue in Borough Park.
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The Der Yid Newspaper (affiliated with the Satmar community of Williamsburg) printed a strong editorial against the anti-vaxxers. The newspaper also took the rare step of printing it in English.

Three of New York’s biggest hospital systems have reached a tentative agreement with nurses.
The New York Times says the four-year contract agreement reached on Tuesday would affect the Mount Sinai, NewYork-Presbyterian and Montefiore hospital systems.
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New York City’s effort to halt a measles outbreak by ordering mandatory vaccinations in one Brooklyn neighborhood is facing opposition, with lawyers for parents opposed to vaccinations promising to file a lawsuit challenging the order by Friday.
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Isaac Abraham, a Williamsburg “community activist”, who has been giving media interviews for years and years, called Mayor DeBlasio some choice words in this interview.
For reasons unknown, the media has been going to Abraham for statements for decades, as if he was appointed by the community, when in fact, he is speaking for himself.

Agudath Israel of America is deeply concerned about the recent outbreak of measles and the threat it poses to communities around the country.
For that reason, countless rabbinical figures and leaders, including leading rabbis in the Agudath Israel movement and doctors serving these communities, have repeatedly encouraged vaccination in the strongest possible terms.

A passenger on El Al flight LY001 traveling from Israel to JFK opened one of the plane’s emergency doors and attempted to jump off the plane on Wednesday. The plane had just landed in New York.
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A fast moving fire has totally destroyed a Kiryas Joel (Monroe) home on Wednesday morning.
The fire department received calls reporting the blaze just after 9:00AM, at 250 Schunnemunk Road.
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As the Pesach season nears and the streets fill with pre-Yom Tov preparations, the staff at Boro Park Center provided patients with an opportunity to join in the holiday festivities by baking Matzohs in the nursing and rehab facility.