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Monsey, NY

Cops ID Pilot, Passenger Killed In I-684 Plane Crash At NY/CT Line Cops ID Pilot, Passenger Killed In I-684 Plane Crash At NY/CT Line
Cops ID Pilot, Passenger Killed In I-684 Plane Crash At NY/CT Line Authorities have released the identities of both the pilot who survived and the passenger who died in a small plane crash that shut down Interstate 684 at the border of Fairfield, CT and Westchester, CT counties for hours. Kalmen Goldberger, 26, of Linden, NJ, had reported engine trouble before the single-engine Tecnam P-2008 went down in the center median of I-684 near Exit 2 in Harrison Thursday, Dec. 12 around 7:15 p.m., officials said. Goldberger survived, however, his passenger, Jacob Yankele Friedman, 32, of the Rockland County hamlet of Monsey, was pronounced dead at the sc…
2 Hospitalized After Tractor-Trailer's Escort Vehicle Struck On Thruway In Capital Region 2 Hospitalized After Tractor-Trailer's Escort Vehicle Struck On Thruway In Capital Region
2 Hospitalized After Tractor-Trailer's Escort Vehicle Struck On Thruway In Capital Region This story has been updated.  Two people are recovering after a tractor-trailer’s escort vehicle was struck by another car on the Thruway. The crash happened at around 5:40 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 28, in Greene County, on I-87 in the town of New Baltimore, according to State Police. Investigators said an oversized flatbed tractor-trailer hauling 197,000 pounds of crane equipment became disabled near the Coxsackie exit and was partially blocking the southbound right lane. At the same time, a certified escort vehicle that was traveling with the tractor-trailer was parked behind the flatbe…