> Huebner downplayed the seriousness of the charges and said the defendants are all Israelis studying to be rabbis ... Two of the men have dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship and none are married.
> The 13 people, all young men, pleaded not guilty in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn ... Another four defendants were absent because they were in Israel, according to their lawyer, Levi Huebner.
> Justice Adam Perlmutter ordered the defendants ... to turn over their passports.
> Over the past twenty-five years, Judge Perlmutter also has played a central role in the restoration and revitalization of Brooklyn's oldest synagogue building.
> Prior to ascending to the Supreme Court bench, Perlmutter devoted significant amounts of time to gaining a Torah perspective on legal matters, studying the Talmudic tractate of Sanhedrin and Makos with Brooklyn activist Ari Noe for a year. Perlmutter had his hand placed on an ArtScroll Chumash when he was sworn in to his newest position by New York State Chief Judge Rowan Wilson.
One of the most informative videos from Practical Engineering channel. I thought I knew NYC infra fairly well, but I learned so much from that video still (like how NYC's electric grid is actually a grid and more fault tolerant).
This is quite informative and useful as I live in NYC. I think in the video he mentioned that the city is collecting all that data on what’s underground to collect all in a database and make repairs easier - anyone know if such data is or will be public, like on data.ny.gov ?
And what I’m getting at, is it would be really cool to have this kind of 3d visualization like in the video, but based on actual real data so I could view what’s actually underneath the streets I walk every day.
This is fantastic, but I so hoped it would come with an infographic of NY's underworld, slice of cake style. I recall seeing one somewhere, but my attempts at finding it again all failed.
Around 2012 I was working near 5th Ave and 14th st, and there was a giant water main break. They had to dig about three stories down in a large intersection, and you could walk near the edge and look in.
It was extraordinary, like something out of a sci-fi where an alien ship has been torn open and the mess of pipes and wires looks organic. It was also a funny case of lost tech / organizational memory -- I heard they had to ask the union to help find retired folks who had worked on the lower levels and could explain why pipes were laid out the way they were.
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[ 47.6 ms ] story [ 275 ms ] thread> The 13 people, all young men, pleaded not guilty in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn ... Another four defendants were absent because they were in Israel, according to their lawyer, Levi Huebner.
> Justice Adam Perlmutter ordered the defendants ... to turn over their passports.
> Over the past twenty-five years, Judge Perlmutter also has played a central role in the restoration and revitalization of Brooklyn's oldest synagogue building.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-perlmutter-64799018a
> Prior to ascending to the Supreme Court bench, Perlmutter devoted significant amounts of time to gaining a Torah perspective on legal matters, studying the Talmudic tractate of Sanhedrin and Makos with Brooklyn activist Ari Noe for a year. Perlmutter had his hand placed on an ArtScroll Chumash when he was sworn in to his newest position by New York State Chief Judge Rowan Wilson.
https://vinnews.com/2025/02/19/jewish-justice-sworn-in-at-br...
And if your name is Winston, it's just best if you stay above ground, or stick to the subway system.
Luckily ChatGPt does a pretty good impression https://chatgpt.com/s/m_6a6662e9af6c81918523fb06d1384e74
It was extraordinary, like something out of a sci-fi where an alien ship has been torn open and the mess of pipes and wires looks organic. It was also a funny case of lost tech / organizational memory -- I heard they had to ask the union to help find retired folks who had worked on the lower levels and could explain why pipes were laid out the way they were.