Hasidic
A post-wedding party with hundreds of maskless Hasidim was ruled legal by city sheriffs on Tuesday night.
Nov 25, 2020 11:17 AM
NYPD officers attempted to disperse a massive street celebration in Crown Heights on Monday night, prompting indifference and hostility from ultra-Orthodox revelers.
Oct 6, 2020 1:26 PM
NYPD officers broke up an illegal yeshiva in Williamsburg on Wednesday. Once they left, students returned to the building and classes resumed, a source tells Gothamist.
May 20, 2020 3:02 PM
De Blasio personally helped disperse the massive funeral, describing it as "unacceptable" in a series of tweets on Tuesday night.
Apr 29, 2020 10:51 AM
Over the weekend, the NYPD broke up multiple Jewish funerals in Williamsburg and Borough Park, where mourners were not observing social distancing guidelines.
Apr 6, 2020 12:19 PM

A weekly Yiddish newspaper serving Brooklyn's ultra-Orthodox population is once again under fire for excluding women from its front cover.
Updated: Nov 1, 2018 3:58 PM

Video appears to show the driver skirting the complex parking laws of the city by simply removing the parking sign.
Updated: Sep 19, 2018 11:24 AM