Housing Authority worker Jose Rivera was photographed with this giant rat at the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn. It sounds like an urban legend: giant mutant-looking rats roaming a city housing project. Only there’s a picture. A photo making the rounds shows Housing Authority worker Jose Rivera minutes after he speared the humongous rodent with a pitchfork at the Marcy Houses. It’s covered in... 

Dave looks just like Michael Jackson Is Michael Jackson alive? A WEBSITE which claims Michael Jackson is still alive and masquerading as a burns victim is clocking up an astonishing one million hits per day. Internet rumours on YouTube and Facebook also claim the King of Pop is appearing on TV talkshows as Dave Dave, 33, a man who suffered severe facial disfigurement after his father set him on fire. The... 

Najibullah Zazi, pictured being extradited to New York from Denver, Colorado, has admitted plotting a suicide bomb attack in New York An Afghan immigrant has pleaded guilty to planning a suicide bomb attack on New York’s subway system in what would have been the worst attack on the United States since September 11. Najibullah Zazi, 25, also admitted receiving bomb-making and weapons training... 

Scott Rothstein, a disbarred South Florida Jewish lawyer, pleaded not guilty to U.S. charges alleging he ran a $1.2 billion fraud that paid for his lifestyle and donations to Governor Charlie Crist and other politicians. Jewish Rothstein, 47, faces 100 years in prison if convicted of two counts of wire fraud and three conspiracy charges filed yesterday. Prosecutors say his law firm was a racketeering... 

The Brooklyn man arrested Thursday for dealing in black-market kidneys was identified to the FBI seven years ago as a major figure in a global human organ ring. Levy-Izhak Rosenbaum’s name, address and even phone number were passed to an FBI agent in a meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan by a prominent anthropologist who has been studying and documenting organ trafficking for more than... 

An emotionally charged case of he said, she said is brewing Wednesday. And at the center of the issue is New York City’s first Hasidic police officer. A woman from Brooklyn is angry because she says police didn’t want her sick dog in the subways. She is accused of making anti-Semitic remarks to the cop, and she says she didn’t do it. Chrissie Brodigan had one of those days Monday.... 

It was kosher chaos. A riot erupted at a Brooklyn restaurant last week when Orthodox Jewish patrons discovered the “kosher” hot dogs on the menu were chicken franks that didn’t answer to a higher authority. What ensued was as unholy as the hot dogs. The eatery’s frightened manager was punched in the face and fended off the angry mob with an electric carving knife until cops... 

When Joel Engelman was 8 years old, he says, he was called from his Hebrew class to the principal’s office at his Brooklyn yeshiva, a Jewish religious school. His parents had recently told Rabbi Avrohom Reichman that their son had been abused by an older boy at the school, he says. But he says the rabbi was not offering to help that day. When Engelman arrived at the principal’s office,... 

Avrohom Mondrowitz ‘I planned to murder Mondrowitz’ “I wanted to murder him. Or to kidnap him and beat him to within an inch of his life and then dump him somewhere. Or to drag him to the American embassy and then send him back to the United States.” The speaker is T., who says he is one of the victims of Avrohom Mondrowitz, the alleged pedophile from Brooklyn who styles himself a rabbi and... 

A rash of vandalism targeted at Jews in New York’s Brooklyn Heights neighborhood seems to have been solved with the arrest of a Bulgarian Jew. Ivan Ivanov was charged with hate crimes and weapons violations after a bizarre shooting incident. Ivanov reportedly called police claiming that an unidentified assailant had shot him in the finger. After police were unable to find clues or witnesses, and...