The builder of Viola Estates stealthily built space for illegal accessory apartments in the basements and upper floors of townhouses contrary to site plans approved by the Ramapo Planning Board, an attorney for neighbors told a judge on Thursday.
A builder is being accused by his neighbors of potentially building more apartments than approved by Ramapo planners at a large housing complex on the former Temple Beth El property along Viola Road.
As friends and family keep Daniel Friedman in their thoughts, the search resumed Thursday for the former town official and college professor who is presumed to have jumped off the Bear Mountain Bridge in late December.
TOT notes that these images are viral on social media on Thursday. Additionally, there are many different versions about why these children (and their sisters) were not accepted into Yeshiva; or why they were taken by their father to a public school.
In another surprise twist for the troubled Viola Estates condominium project, the developer’s counsel reversed himself and agreed to a standstill on unit sales for an additional 3 weeks, TOT has learned exclusively.
RAMAPO – Firefighters doused an illegal matzo oven connected to a school trailer Thursday on a property that was cited for numerous building code violations earlier in the month.
A special assistant to the Rockland district attorney who served as a liaison to the county’s ultra-Orthodox community surrendered his badge after The revealed he obtained straw donations for a political candidate four years ago while an FBI investigation was underway.
Rockland County, NY – Ramapo police are investigating two separate incidents in the Monsey area, with two Orthodox Jewish women attacked in their driveways.
A 74-year-old property developer from Suffern has been arrested Thursday afternoon by the Ramapo police on hate crime charges for making anti-Semitic threats last month towards a Jewish real estate agent whom he owned money, an official within the Ramapo Police Department told TOT on Friday.
MONSEY – A local community watch organization helped police arrest a man who tried to rob and a 78-year-old woman Friday afternoon.
