After spending more than 24 hours lost in the Bear Mountain State Park, two Brooklyn teenagers were found safe and well. The 16-year-old boys, Moshe Tzvi Ledereuch and Yosef Yitzchak Rothman, were part of a 200-person hiking group from Brooklyn. They were reported missing when they didn’t return to the bus Thursday evening. According to […]
The New York State legislature recently passed a bill that would deal a low blow to Airbnb and to those who use it for supplemental income. The bill in question will render the act of advertising the rental of an entire house for fewer than 30 days illegal, punishable by a substantial series of […]
Approximately 40% of people will abandon a website if it takes more than three seconds to load, and the people behind Hudson Valley Bounty must have known this for a fact, because they just re-launched their website. The site, already the most comprehensive local farm and food portal, decided that a fresh look was a […]
Police are investigating a recent incident outside the house of two Rockland county rabbis. Two separate explosions outside the homes of Avremel Kotlarsky, the Director of Chabad, and Simcha Morganstern, an associate rabbi at the Chabad of Rockland, are believed to be religiously premeditated. Fireworks caused the dangerous explosions. Witnesses recount hearing loud booms and […]
Eileen Fisher, Inc., a New York City clothing company, is collecting used clothing to be recycled into newer products. “Our goal was to find techniques that minimize waste and preserve the inherent value of Eileen Fisher’s materials,” said Carmen Gama, winner of the Social Innovator Award, who, along with Teslin Doud and Lucy Jones, helped […]
In approximately 12% of credit or debit fraud cases, an Internet website is the initial point of contact, but other forms of crime are still operating just as strongly as before. An East Coast organized crime ring that stretched from Springfield, Massachusetts, to the Hudson Valley and down to Florida was allegedly behind crimes involving […]