Protesters are blocking traffic on FDR Drive as the disciplinary trial gets underway for the NYPD officer accused in connection with the death of Eric Garner.
Traffic cameras showed a small number of demonstrators blocking FDR Drive at 25th Street.

My name is Nicole Rogerson, I live in upstate New York in Sullivan County with my husband and three children, in a area that is highly populated in the summer months with Hasidic and Orthodox families.

Officials say a construction worker tumbled down a roughly 10-foot (3-meter) shaftway at a Brooklyn building site and is hospitalized with critical injuries.
He fell around 9 a.m.
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In a span of three days, two Jewish residents of Williamsburg have been physically assaulted in unprovoked incidents because of their appearance as Chasidic Jews. Anti-Semitic attacks in the Williamsburg Jewish community are growing in frequency and boldness.

The following is via ABC7 NY:
Imagine the possibilities if the NYPD could conduct active shooter training drills at the World Trade Center?
Now because of virtual reality they can.

A Hasidic man walking with his four sons (aged 7 to 14) from Shul on Shabbos morning was harassed by a couple of high school students who yelled “I love Hitler!” at them twice.
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A judge cleared the way Thursday for a disciplinary trial to begin next week for the white New York City police officer accused in the 2014 chokehold death of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man whose pleas of “I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry against police brutality.

The South Side Sandwich Shop in Lakewood makes hundreds of sandwiches a day. But today, they are involved in a controversy about a flag outside their store.
YWN spoke with the proprietor of the establishment who tells us that he simply wanted to show his appreciation towards the State of Israel, and hung an Israeli flag outside his store in honor of Yom Ha’atzmut.

A speeding driver was caught on camera heading the wrong-way through the Midtown Tunnel and crashing into an Uber vehicle before trying to run away.
The 18-year-old driver was high on drugs.

As YWN reported earlier this week, a Hasidic Williamsburg man was punched in the face in an anti-Semitic attack. Now the NYPD is releasing footage of the suspectes as well as additional details.
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