Ed Weintrob

As Mayor Zohran Mamdani disrupts the city’s civil and economic norms, targeting Jewish New Yorkers for special abuse, two high-positioned Jewish women hold the city and its Jewish communities Atlas-like on their shoulders.

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed “Keeping New Yorkers Safe” legislation at Sunday morning’s Met Council Legislative Breakfast. The law establishes 50-foot security perimeters at houses of worship in which protests are not allowed. “You have no right to harass someone walking into a synagogue with their family to carry on a tradition that has been there for centuries and centuries, and have to put up with people screaming vile epithets,” Hochul said.

HEALTH Posted Wednesday, May 6, 2026 12:00 am For far too long, the residents of the Rockaways have had to leave the peninsula to get ambulatory care they deserve.” Far Rockaway welcomed a major expansion of outpatient medical services on Friday as Episcopal Health Services cut the ribbon on its new Walsh Ambulatory Pavilion, a 65,000-square-foot facility designed to bring cancer treatment, women’s health, behavioral health and other specialty care closer to patients who for years often had...