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Abe Kugielsky poses in front of his installation Humans of New York’s 'Dear New York' exhibition in Grand Central’s Vanderbilt Hall, running from October 6 to October 19, 2025. (Courtesy Abe Kugielsky via JTA)
October 20, 2025, 3:50 am
How Abe Kugielsky’s photos of Hasidic Brooklyn ended up on display in Grand Central Terminal
The Modern Orthodox photographer is part of the ‘Dear New York’ exhibit curated by Humans of New York’s Brandon Stanton, on display at Grand Central Station from Oct. 6-19
By Grace Gilson
Illustrative: Voters in line in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City, November 6, 2022. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 3, 2025, 11:57 pm
Special election to be held for NYC council seat representing Orthodox area of Brooklyn
Vote in Borough Park will decide seat vacated by Kalman Yeger, a prominent advocate for Jewish causes, who is moving to the state government
By Luke Tress
NYC locals enjoy the world's longest challah, baked Jan. 19-20, 2023 with the help of volunteers and local businesses in New York and New Jersey. (Screenshot from Instagram, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 23, 2024, 7:34 pm
35-foot challah in NYC attempts to break Guinness record
Over 200 pounds of dough transformed into world’s longest challah for Jewish Federation of North America’s Shabbat of Love
By julia GERGELY
The rapper Kosha Dillz performs for Holocaust survivors in the Catskills in New York, July 13, 2022. (Luke Tress/The Times of Israel)
July 29, 2022, 8:51 pm
At a Catskills retreat, Brooklyn Holocaust survivors get respite and a rap show
Elderly Jews enjoy break from the sweltering city at a mountain resort for the first time since the start of COVID, and some improv from rapper Kosha Dillz
By Luke Tress
Former NYC mayor Bill de Blasio, running for Congress in District 10, meets with members of the Borough Park Orthodox Jewish community, June 19, 2022. (Courtesy of Reuvain Borchardt/Hamodia. Used With Permission/ via JTA)
June 22, 2022, 4:47 pm
Bill de Blasio seeks forgiveness in bid for Orthodox votes in Borough Park
Apologizing for a 2020 tweet berating Jews for large gatherings held during the pandemic, the former NYC mayor hopes to win back the major voting bloc
By Jacob Henry
A swastika on an antisemitism awareness billboard in New York City, May 5, 2022. (Courtesy/JewBelong)
May 6, 2022, 10:54 pm
NY police searching for person who sprayed swastika on Holocaust awareness ad
New York governor, attorney general condemn antisemitic graffiti in Brooklyn’s Borough Park, as hate crimes against Jews continue to surge
By Luke Tress
New York Mayor Eric Adams greets students and parents at Concourse Village Elementary School in the Bronx, New York, on January 3, 2022. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP)
January 7, 2022, 8:58 pm
NYC Jews hoping new mayor will reach out beyond Brooklyn’s Orthodox community
Progressive, non-Orthodox Jewish activists express concern Eric Adams’ close ties with the Orthodox could lead to their exclusion from posts in his administration
By Ben Sales
New York City Mayor-elect Eric Adams speaks to supporters, November 2, 2021, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)
November 3, 2021, 5:24 pm
From Borough Park to Upper West Side: How Jews voted, and fared, in NY elections
Eric Adams elected mayor despite weak Hasidic support; Jewish Republican Inna Vernikov defeats Steven Saperstein in City Council race; Brad Lander to be next comptroller
By julia GERGELY
Illustrative: New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang, top, third from left, meets with haredi Orthodox Jewish leaders in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in an undated photo supplied by his campaign. (Yang for New York via JTA)
April 29, 2021, 3:18 am
Top New York City mayoral candidates vie for ultra-Orthodox endorsements
Andrew Yang and Eric Adams meet with religious leaders in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island as they court Jewish voters
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
People walk past closed stores in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City, on October 9, 2020. (Angela Weiss / AFP)
April 4, 2021, 7:49 am
Pandemic gives some Haredi New York Jews space to leave their community
Groups says some people had more time for soul-searching, while others were troubled by social distancing violations
By Peter HUTCHISON
An undated image of Jacob Daskal, the president of the Shomrim Brooklyn South Safety Patrol. (screen capture: New York Daily News)
March 4, 2021, 10:50 pm
Brooklyn Jewish patrol founder charged federally for rape of 15-year-old
Jacob Daskal already facing state-level indictment from 2018 over alleged sexual assaults, though those charges likely to be dropped in place of new, more severe ones
By Jacob Magid
Thousands gathered for the wedding of the son of Rabbi Ben Zion Halberstam, grand rabbi of a faction of the Bobov Hasidic sect. (Screenshot from WhatsApp via JTA)
January 20, 2021, 11:55 am
Thousands attend Hasidic wedding in Brooklyn kept secret due to COVID rules
Plans were kept under wraps to prevent authorities from finding out; many of those at Bobov dynasty celebration were reportedly from Europe and Israel
By Shira Hanau
A photo posted to Twitter on December 21, 2020 showed Gary Schlesinger, CEO of ParCare Community Health Network, receiving the coronavirus vaccine. (Twitter via JTA)
December 27, 2020, 7:50 am
NY probes clinics serving ultra-Orthodox community over possible vaccine fraud
State health commissioner says ParCare Community Health Network may have obtained COVID-19 shots ‘fraudulently,’ given doses to members of the public ‘contrary to the state’s plan’
By Shira Hanau
Illustrative: Groups of protesters gather in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Borough Park to denounce lockdowns of their neighborhood due to a spike in COVID-19 cases on October 7, 2020 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
October 29, 2020, 9:04 am
Senior Satmar rabbi denounces Brooklyn anti-lockdown rallies
Hasidic leader Aaron Teitelbaum speaks at event in Borough Park, tells crowd that ‘none of you should be seen at these protests’
By Shira Hanau
Congregation Yetev Lev D'Satmar in Brooklyn, New York. (Google Street View)
October 18, 2020, 11:44 pm
Satmar wedding of ‘10,000’ made family-only after NY officials block it
Synagogue says it had always been the plan to keep event limited to relatives, but a public reception afterwards was called off, given the virus crackdown
By JTA and ToI Staff
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