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NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.

Elected officials and community leaders want guests invited to a 10,000 person wedding in Brooklyn to stay home. Adam Harding reports.

Health officials in New York delivered a ban days before a scheduled wedding after receiving reports that “upwards of 10,000 individuals” were scheduled to attend the ceremony in Brooklyn, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. At his briefing Saturday, the governor explained that state officials received word of a the wedding after the Rockland County Sheriff’s Office issued a warning against attending…

New York’s health commissioner issued an order barring the mass gathering at a Hasidic synagogue, which would violate the 50 person gathering limit. Myles Miller reports.

Some movie theaters in New York state can reopen starting Oct. 23, Gov. Cuomo announced Saturday. Adam Harding reports.

Many customers at The Graham are often late night workers from the restaurant industry or even MTA workers looking for food after midnight — all whom would be out of luck for late night grub under the governor’s restrictions on hours of operations

NBC New York’s Ida Siegal reports.

Divers in Montauk recovered the body of the managing partner of Huckleberry Bar in Williamsburg, after he drowned while trying to get an oar that fell from a rowboat he was in with three others

There is a fight for access to a playground in Brooklyn. The city welded the gate shut of a Williamsburg park to keep children out during the pandemic, but the community says it’s not fair. John Chandler reports.

Police say locks at a Williamsburg playground has been broken more than 25 times after playgrounds were shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

New York City police say two people have been arrested for allegedly tearing face masks off Jewish people in Brooklyn. The NYPD arrested the perpetrators some time after the Sunday night attack near Bedford Avenue and Ross Street in Williamsburg, Mayor Bill de Blasio confirmed. Videos posted to social media late Sunday by Williamsburg News and The Belaaz, an NYC-based…

Video showed police in protective masks chasing a minivan carrying the body of a deceased rabbi in Borough Park and ordering to to leave, while telling groups on the street to stay away

The incident comes just a few days after police broke up another group of mourners at a rabbi’s funeral in Brooklyn.

The gathering garnered the attention of the NYPD and the mayor, who joined police in Brooklyn in person to break it up, but it was his reaction on social media that drew scorn and calls for the World Jewish Congress to censure him

Police say 12 summonses were issued after crowds of hundreds gathered Tuesday in Williamsburg for a rabbi’s funeral. The synagogue apologized Wednesday, saying that they understand Mayor de Blasio’s frustration and that they thought the procession was going to be in accordance with the social distancing rules.

How do leaders balance religious practices while enforcing social distancing? Sarah Wallace reports.

Advocates say there is a double standard in how social distancing measures are being enforced around New York City after Mayor Bill de Blasio singled out the Jewish community because of a funeral gathering in Brooklyn. NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.

NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

Three construction workers were injured following a scaffolding collapse in Brooklyn Thursday afternoon. The collapse took place around 2:30 p.m. at a building under construction on Grand Avenue in Williamsburg, according to the FDNY. Three workers were trapped underneath the debris and had to be rescued, the FDNY said. They suffered minor injuries. The city’s Department of Buildings said...