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Gov. Kathy Hochul, City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, state Sen. Brad Hoylman-Sigal and other politicians have weighed in.

Simchat Torah should have been a day of joyous celebration, dancing and singing, but it was instead filled with grief, shock and mourning over the hundreds killed in Hamas’ strikes on Israel just a day prior.

Many on Saturday woke to shocking footage on their TVs of buildings in Israel tumbling apart from Hamas missiles and women and children being kidnapped and tortured by Hamas militants.

The leadership of the Benjamin Franklin Reform Democratic Club, along with Democratic State Committee Member Michael Heller, issued a statement in the wake of the Hamas attacks on Israel on Saturday, Oct. 7, in which they said they stand with Israel and unequivocally condemn the terrorist attacks on Israel and her people.

Tenants of 3045 Godwin Terrace in the past year have made at least 36 complaints to the New York City building department ranging from illegal apartment conversions to lead exposure, people being stuck in an elevator for an hour, urine and feces being in common areas and landlords renting to shelter programs.

A “bi-partisan community rally” led by Curtis Sliwa in front of former Manhattan College dorm Overlook Manor over it potentially turning into a shelter for asylum seekers, was perhaps anything but non-partisan as two sides stood opposite each other in the rain last Sunday in a war of words.

To the editor: I moved to Riverdale 45 years ago so that my children could attend great schools. My two daughters attended P.S. 81 and then Riverdale/Kingsbridge Academy — and they received phenomenal educations.

A 44-year-old man died after being stabbed multiple times throughout his body Sept. 5 in front of 130 W. 228th St. in Marble Hill, police have reported.

After receiving reports of unhealthy and unsanitary living conditions at the Van Cortlandt Motel migrant shelter, Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz and Councilman Eric Dinowitz reached out to the city agency in charge of shelters and the operator to schedule a visit there.

Led by former New York city mayoral candidate, radio talk show host and head of the Guardian Angels Curtis Sliwa, members of the Waldo Gardens board of directors will hold a rally outside Overlook Manor Sunday.