Every precinct in Queens reported a reduction in violent crime, with the exception of the 106th in Howard Beach and the 100th in Far Rockaway...

Brooklyn +Friday Night Fire In P/D+ Fire Department called on all hands to go to work Friday night in Brooklyn for a fire in a 25x40 2.5 story private dwelling with a peaked roof at 719 East 3rd Street between Ditmas Avenue and Avenue F, searches were negative...

Jackson, NJ - Benjamin Kirsch, 50, the son of a Holocaust survivor, was outraged to find anti-Semitic slur written across the front fender of his company's trucks. "The only good that could ever come of this is to remind people that they should never forget that the war against racism and anti-Semitism is never over," said Kirsch, who was most upset that this happened during Hanukkah. Township...

Bronx +Major Deegan Traffic Alert+ A motor vehicle accident southbound of the Major Deegan and I-95 is blocking some lanes, PD and tow are on the scene, heavy traffic delays through out the area...

Even as Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and the NYPD take a well-deserved bow for driving crime in New York City to record lows this year, upward spikes of shootings and violent crime in some inner-city neighborhoods show there's more work to be done. In Brooklyn's 71st Precinct, which covers Crown Heights, murders jumped to 21, up from nine last year, the largest increase in the city...

Queens +Aircraft Emergency+ At J.F.K. Airport a plane with 300 people aboard that just took off for London, has one engine on fire, fire is visible from the the tower, plane is returning and crash trucks with numerous units from PD, FD, Aviation and PAPD are all standing by. U/D: 23:38 The plane British Airways Boeing 747 Flight 116, has a 5 minute ETA back to the airport. FD just transmitted a...

Williamsburg +Child Struck+ A motor vehicle accident with a child that was struck by a vehicle on Bedford Avenue and Keap Street, Hatzolah on the scene will be transporting the child, child is conscious...

Crown Heights +Pedestrian Struck+ A motor vehicle with a pedestrian that was struck on the corner of President Street and Kingkston Avenue, Hatzolah EMS on the scene...

Austria - About 3,000 Holocaust survivors have been approved to receive the first payouts from an Austrian fund, and another 3,000 should be approved shortly...

Kiryas Yoel, Monroe +Early Morning Fire+ A Fire early this morning in Kiryas Joel at 43 Forest Road reportedly happened from a menorah that was still burning at 3 am...

Hackensack - +Searchers Recover Body Of Police Officer+ NYPD divers recover the body of police Officer Robert Nyguen, whose Radio Emergency Patrol truck plummeted 45 feet from a bridge into the Hackensack River in blinding fog and rain...

Queens +Van Wyck Exp MVA+ A motor vehicle accident on the northern ramp of the Van Wyck Expressway to the L.I.E. Westbound, Hatzolah on the scene...

New York - About 104,000 Jews live just above the poverty line, caught in a world where they are too poor to lead a comfortable life but too wealthy to receive government assistance, a report released yesterday said. The report, documented 53,000 Jewish households whose income was at least $22,530 - or 150% above the federal poverty line - but less than $35,000 for a household of three...

Queens +G.C.P. Overturned Vehicle+ A MVA with an overturned vehicle and people injuried eastbound of the Grand Central Parkway and Jewel Avenue, PD ESU to upright and EMS for the aided, majot traffic delays through out the area, Highway units also to respond. U/D: 11:11 Vehicle has been removed, all lanes are reopened now...

The year 2006 is going to come in with one second later than expected. The scientists in charge of maintaining world time have to insert a "leap second," in order to keep atomic time sync'd up with the Earth's rotational time. On the U.S. East Coast, the extra second occurs just before 7 p.m. on New Year's Eve. Atomic clocks at that moment will read 23:59:60 before rolling over to all zeros...