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A Brooklyn high school principal lashed out at parents who ripped her decision to boot students out of the classroom the day after 2,000 migrants moved in for a night. “How dare someone say that I don’t care about kids,” roared James Madison High School principal Jodie Cohen on a Zoom call Tuesday at parents seething that she “sold the kids out” by having them go remote the day after the migrants were evacuated from Floyd Bennett Field because of a torrential rain storm.

A Brooklyn school informed parents their children will be getting low-quality remote instruction to turn their school into a refugee camp.. emocrats’ open border is turning the entire United States into a refugee camp. The record-breaking numbers of foreigners allowed to break U.S. border laws are most heavily affecting large and sanctuary cities like New York City, but the numbers are so high they can’t help but affect cities across America as well. Yesterday, a Brooklyn high school informed parents their children will be getting low-quality remote instruction because their school is being turned into a refugee camp. The 4,000...

Authorities discovered underground tunnels built into Orthodox Jewish buildings in New York City. Roughly 20,000 people reportedly live there and the tunnel system was built illegally in response to pandemic restrictions. Police forced people out and arrested at least 10 people. What is this about?

A public New York City elementary school is being accused of “Jewish erasure” because a map in one of its classrooms showed all of the countries in the Middle East except for Israel — which it labeled as Palestine. The map, labeled the “Arab World,” appears in a classroom at PS 261 in Brooklyn, where Rita Lahoud gives students lessons in the Arab Culture Arts program — which is funded by Qatar Foundation International, the American wing of the Qatar Foundation, a nonprofit owned by the country’s wealthy ruling family. It was manufactured by Arab education company Ruman and features...

CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn (WABC) -- Police say nine worshippers were arrested amid a dispute over a tunnel secretly dug into the side of a historic Brooklyn synagogue, setting off a brawl between police and those who tried to defend the makeshift passageway. Authorities responded to the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights on Monday afternoon. Motti Seligson, a spokesperson for Chabad, said a "group of extremist students" had secretly broken through the walls of a vacant building behind the headquarters, creating an underground passage beneath a row of office buildings and lecture halls that eventually connected...

In a shocking turn of events, a riot broke out at the Chabad headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, today. The New York Police Department (NYPD) swiftly responded to the situation, which escalated due to the discovery of an underground tunnel within the temple premises. The incident began earlier today when individuals tore down wooden structures at the Chabad headquarters. The motive behind this destructive behavior is yet to be determined. However, it caught the attention of law enforcement agencies, leading to a swift response from the NYPD. The riot at the Chabad headquarters attracted a significant number of officers from...

A teenager was shot to death at a New York City Housing Authority complex in Brooklyn Tuesday evening, cops said. The violence unfolded at 9 p.m. outside building eight of the Bay View Houses in Canarsie. Officers found the 15-year-old with a single gunshot wound to the torso, according to the NYPD

Families staying at the Floyd Bennett Field shelter at the edge of Brooklyn are showing up at homes four miles away in the Marine Park neighborhood, seeking food, clothes and funds — spurring both online vitriol and real-world help. Residents are sharing anecdotes and images on Nextdoor and Facebook groups, describing migrant families begging for change near the Kings Plaza Mall, the nearest commercial hub to the shelter, where city buses drop off and pick migrants up. Other residents have described them going door-to-door on residential streets asking for clothing, food or money. Some, like David Fitzgerald, 62, an Irish...

A 15-year-old boy was stabbed inside a Brooklyn high school by his fellow student Tuesday morning, cops and law enforcement sources said. The teen was knifed in the stomach inside Edward R. Murrow High School on Avenue L near Saul Bruckner Way in Midwood around 9:20 a.m., police and sources said. He was rushed to Maimonides Medical Center’s children’s hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, cops said.

New York state is ditching the terms “feminine hygiene products” and “sanitary napkins” in favor of more inclusive language, according to Gov. Kathy Hochul. Hochul this month signed into law the Health Equity and Opportunity legislative package, which replaces all instances and variations of the phrases in correction law, public health law and tax law, with gender non-specific terminology like “menstrual products and pads.” Additionally, the legislative package requires free menstrual products be provided to students in private middle and high schools; requires cosmetologists to receive training in all hair types and patterns, including natural hair types; and designates March...

A parent school board meeting in Brooklyn descended into hate and chaos as more than two dozen people, including many Israel supporters, were tossed from the virtual event. The Wednesday meeting was the first for the Community Educational Council for District 14, which covers Williamsburg and Greenpoint, since its controversial promotion of a Nov. 9 pro-Palestinian rally in which hundreds of students walked out of school, including some who yelled “f–k the Jews!” A father who questioned the organizations CEC 14 partnered with for the walkout, including Youth for Palestine, was told by Vice President Marissa Manzanares, “Redirect yourself or...

Furious migrants are refusing to stay in tent shelters set up for them in New York City - at great expense to the taxpayer - as they prefer their plush hotels in Manhattan. A group of asylum seekers were seen being bused to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn on Sunday. The site, part of a national park located in southeast of the New York City borough, is expected to hold 2,000 people. But they were immediately loaded on a bus back to Manhattan as they complained that they had jobs back in the city - and their kids had schools...

The first batch of migrants was bused to Floyd Bennett Field’s makeshift tent city in Brooklyn on Sunday — and wanted no part of it. Dozens of migrant families arrived at the controversial remote housing site courtesy of the Adams administration shortly after 12:30 p.m., looked around and promptly hopped back on the bus to try to return to their previous shelters. “We weren’t told where we were going,” one of the bused migrant dads griped to The Post. “I work in The Bronx. My kids go to school in The Bronx. For us to live out here is ridiculous....

A 79-year-old woman died on a street blocks from her Brooklyn home Thursday evening after she was struck and dragged by two hit-and-run drivers, police said. NYPD officers responding to a call around 6:30 p.m. found the victim lying on the roadway unconscious at New York Avenue and Herkimer Street in Crown Heights. She was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS and later identified as Yvonne Sandiford, who lived about five blocks south of the crash scene. Police said she was crossing New York Avenue in the marked crosswalk when she was hit by the driver of a gray...

NEW YORK -- New York City Council Member Inna Vernikov surrendered to police after she was photographed at a pro-Palestinian rally with a gun in her waistband. Vernikov, a licensed gun owner, attended the rally Thursday at Brooklyn College. Police told Vernikov she was not authorized to carry the weapon at a public gathering, even though she is a licensed gun owner. Vernikov's gun was confiscated and her permit was temporarily revoked.

An activist was fatally stabbed in Brooklyn, New York

The death of two progressive activists shocked the nation. And that says everything about crime and class in America.Recently, two high-profile supporters of “justice reform” were murdered. At 4 a.m. on Monday, Ryan Carson, a 32-year-old social justice and climate change activist, was walking with his girlfriend in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, when he was stabbed to death by a stranger. Only a few hours earlier in Philadelphia, activist and journalist Josh Kruger was shot and killed in his home. And two Democratic lawmakers who voted to “redirect funding to community-based policing reforms” have been recent victims of violent crime.On Monday...

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Dowling was wearing the same clothes as the suspect in the video when police executed a search warrant. On Thursday, the man suspected of brutally murdering 32-year-old Brooklyn activist Ryan Carson was apprehended by police and taken into custody. Brian Dowling, 18, allegedly stabbed Carson to death while he and his girlfriend were waiting for the bus. According to the New York Post, after Dowling was named as a suspect, police executed a search warrant at a home on Lafayette Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard, near where the beloved activist was killed. When authorities arrived, they discovered Dowling in the...

The NYPD has arrested and charged the suspect in the fatal stabbing of Brooklyn community activist Ryan Thoresen Carson. Brian Dowling, 18, was arrested at an apartment in Bedford Stuyvesant on Thursday morning. He has since been charged with murder and is currently being held in a Brooklyn police station. Police were looking for the black Champion sweatshirt he was wearing when they showed up at the apartment and found him today. They were seen removing the sweatshirt in a brown paper bag, and the knife he is said to have used in the attack. It is not far from...