Borough Park

Baby Drowns In Brooklyn Toilet While Visiting Family For Jewish Holiday

An Upstate family is grieving after a 1-year-old boy was found drowned to death in a Brooklyn toilet last night.Making the story even more heartbreaking is the fact that the boy and his family were visiting relatives in Brooklyn to celebrate the Jewish new year at the time of tragedy.According to au ... More >>

New Jersey Town Has A Bit Of A Swastika Problem

A New Jersey town currently has a problem that isn't directly related to it's simply being located in New Jersey: swastikas.Last week, residents of Manalapan woke up to find at least a dozen swastikas and other hateful symbols scribbled on the sides of residential fences and buildings on one of the ... More >>

Another Day, Another Swastika Found In Boro Park

Less than two weeks after a collection of swastikas were found spray-painted on several buildings in the Jewish Orthodox neighborhood of Boro Park, the hate-vandals appear to have struck again.The latest swastika was found painted on a car outside of the offices of Hamodia, a Hebrew newspaper locate ... More >>

If You're Spray-Painting Swastikas On Brooklyn Synagogues, Knock It Off

A swastika is a pretty offensive symbol no matter where it's displayed. A swastika spray-painted on the side of a building in a Jewish neighborhood is extra offensive. When that building is a synagogue, you're flirtin' with a hate crime.But that hasn't stopped a couple of dipshits from running aroun ... More >>

Orthodox Jews Rent Citi Field For (Women-Less) Meeting About How Scary The Internet Is

Thousands of male Orthodox Jews will make Citi Field seem like a 10-year-old's tree house this weekend, when they hold a women-less meeting about the risks of the Internet.Orthodox Jews, as you may know, have a practice of strict gender separation, so woman will be able to watch the conference, but ... More >>

The Shomrim: Gotham's Crusaders

They patrol Jewish neighborhoods with taxpayer money—but don't always clue in the police

City Won't Force Orthodox Jews to Go to Church — to Vote

Holy voter rolls! St. Agatha's in Borough Park.​Assemblyman Dov Hikind has intervened on behalf of his fellow Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn so they won't have to cast ballots this November in a Catholic church. Ecumenism goes only so far. Big crosses adorn St. Agatha's in Sunset Park East/Borough Par ... More >>

Leiby Kletzky Killing Prompts Questions of Prevention in Borough Park

Christopher MacsurakBorough Park​The parents of Leiby Kletzky, the 8-year-old Borough Park boy who was killed and dismembered last week, stopped sitting shiva this morning. The grand jury investigating Kletzky's alleged killer, Levi Aron, is expected to announce his indictment today, according ... More >>

Man Tries to Steal Food by Putting it in Pants, Is Unsuccessful

​Food crime is not just an opportunity for the New York Post to make excessively bad puns, it's an opportunity for all of us to laugh. Because when a guy stuffs a dozen packs of smoked salmon in his pants, there's not much else you can do. It seems that Sergey Muzlayov ("the catch of the day a ... More >>

New Yorkers Find New Dumb Thing to Complain About: Noisy Snow Plows

​It's official: New Yorkers will complain about anything snow-related. Oh, the street didn't get plowed fast enough? Complain! Slush is gross? Salt stains are annoying? Train's a few minutes late? Flight's delayed? Complain! Complain! Complain! Now the city overcompensates for its prior ... More >>

Annals of Dim Sum Innovation: Jin Fong and Very Tong Vie for Supremacy

​Ever seen this one before? Shrimp paste and vegetables packaged like sushi at Very Tong. Three years ago, the city was in the dim sum doldrums, a condition that had persisted for a decade or more. What you got when you traipsed into one of the football-field size dining rooms was a processio ... More >>

Schmuck Shoots Self in Stakeout with Chasidic Neighborhood "Cops"

​So, if you don't know, the "Shomrim" are an unarmed, but "licensed" Orthodox Jewish community patrol group who watches over their neighborhoods. They're like the vigilante group of "Hebrew Hammers," or Jewish Batmans, or something, but not nearly as cool. They're also pretty hardcore, if last ... More >>

Another Tuesday, Another Election No One Will Vote In

​It's Tuesday, and these days in New York City, that means another special election. With runoff elections, resignations, and the occasional expulsion from a legal body, there have been quite a few in the past election season. Today's race is in the 44th City Council District, where Republica ... More >>

Guss's Pickles Has Left Orchard Street; Mother in Law's Kimchi Won't Take Its Place

Bowery BoogieGuss' is gone.​Oy gevalt! We knew it was coming, but that still didn't quite prepare us for the news that Guss' Pickles has officially up and left the Lower East Side. Bowery Boogie has noticed that the Orchard Street stall is now shuttered, complete with a sign notifying potentia ... More >>

Health alert issued for mumps outbreak in Brooklyn

​The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has issued an alert (pdf) to healthcare providers in response to a record mumps outbreak in New York and New Jersey. The CDC traced the path of infection back to an asymptomatic 11-year-old boy who carried it from an epidemic in England to an ... More >>

Suicide Epidemic Tied to Steve Carrell

​There seems to be a jumping epidemic in the city. Just days after that NYU student fell to his presumably self-willed death at the ill-starred Bobst Library, a newlywed has gone out the window of the Avenue Plaza Hotel in Borough Park. 24-year-old Mordechai (Motty) Borger fell seven stories a ... More >>

Mayor Thompson Could Mean "Fear of Going Out at Night" (Giuliani), "Detroit" (Bloomberg)

The Bloomberg-Giuliani victory tour of friendly city territories began with a bang in Borough Park, where the former Mayor told the annual Legislative Breakfast of the local Jewish Community Council that if Bill Thompson were elected, the city "could very easily be taken back to the way it was with ... More >>

Bloomberg & Giuliani to Campaign Together in Friendly NY Territories

Far be it from us to advise Mayor Bloomberg on electioneering, but we wonder if he has thought through his plan to campaign with hated former mayor Rudolph Giuliani. He warmed up for it during the recent mayoral debate, when he said Giuliani would make a good governor. And someone planted an apparen ... More >>

Appetizing in Borough Park, Brooklyn

From Schwartz Appetizing: Smoked sable, matjash herring and a whole smoked mackerel all for $23​ Found at Appetizing Plus: Smoked sable for $5 from local Brooklyn company Tuv Taam​ The best and most iconic New York appetizing shop is probably Russ and Daughters, but a few good alternativ ... More >>

Another Sig(h)n of the Times: Guss' Pickles Leaving the LES for Brooklyn

jasonlam/flickr​The Lo-Down broke the depressing news yesterday that Guss' Pickles, a Lower East Side fixture for more than 85 years, is pulling up stakes and moving to Borough Park. Grub Street followed up with a phone call to Roger Janin who, with his mother, Pat Fairhurst, has run the Orchard S ... More >>

Letters: June 17, 2009

An Unlikely Rescuer from the Jaws of Debt

Late Edition: Crown Heights Sex Assault, NY-13 Nods; Yankees, Mets Suck

Robes for a Rogue

Ex-councilman Noach Dear prepares to mount the bench

Schumer, Levine Rally for Ball Field Vendors

'A Cantor's Tale'

Silence of the Lam

Accused of sexually abusing young boys, a Brooklyn rabbi lit for Israel 22 years ago. Now one alleged victim wants him brought back for trial.

Honorary Jew

Hillary Clinton becomes kosher for a community that had its doubts

The Battle of Brooklyn

The Wealth of Districts

Fresh Views of Infamous NYPD-Related Deaths

Jail Breaks

Influential Rabbi Barred From Lobbying Federal Prison Officials

Close-Up on Borough Park

The Searchers

Ethiopian Jews, Holocaust survivors, Lacanian psychobabblers, and a downtown bra shop

Tracking Shots

Close-Up on Midwood

Beating the Brokers

Finding the Real Deals in the Best Neighborhoods

A Killing Without Guns

Militant Rabbi Scores Press but No Troops

One Good Cop

Retiring NYPD Detective Bill Jackson Was No Ordinary Policeman—He Even Rescued Al Sharpton and Me From a Jewish Mob

Sacrificial Lamb

Orthodox Rabbi Yitzchak Fried Could Do Hard Time for Medical Marijuana

Oh, God

Why Religion Doesn't Have a Prayer in New York Politics

The Taste of Fear

Subway Surfers Risk Their Lives Atop the City’s Trains. Only Mad Fools Take the Dare. Only the Lucky Survive.

Slicing the Park Slope Pie

Could DiBrienza Wannabes Cost Lefties the Race?

Hynes and His ‘Haman’

Orthodox Jews, Angered Over Recent Cases, Up in Arms Against Brooklyn D.A.

Boro Park Betrayed

Behind the Alleged Political and Police Cover-Up in the Killing of Gidone Busch

Low Anxiety

Fear of the Subway Derails Thousands

Jews Too — 'No Justice, No Peace'

Same as the Old Dov

Borough Park Assemblyman Dov Hikind: New and Improved?

Sharks and Jets

Political Conversion

Noach Dear Turns Liberal in Race for Schumer's Seat