What you need to know for Thursday.
Jersey City Shooting: What We Know So Far |
By Rebecca Liebson Reporter |
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Nothing seemed unusual about the rental van that was navigating the streets of Jersey City, until the man and woman inside descended on a kosher market and unleashed a barrage of deadly gunfire. |
In that instant, a bustling Hasidic neighborhood turned into a war zone. In the end, six people, including the assailants and a Jersey City police detective shot nearby, had been killed. |
Investigators later determined that the carnage on Tuesday began with the shooting of the detective, Joe Seals, near a cemetery. The attack on the market appeared to be premeditated, the authorities said. |
Here’s what we know so far. |
Five people, including the assailants, were killed at the market. |
As the assailants and the police exchanged gunfire at the JC Kosher Supermarket, officers descended on the van. Officials later said it contained a pipe bomb and a manifesto-style note. |
Inside the market, three bystanders were slain. They were identified as Mindel Ferencz, 33, who ran the market with her husband; Moshe Deutsch, 24, a rabbinical student; and Miguel Douglas Rodriguez, 49, who worked at the store. |
One suspect was linked to the Black Hebrew Israelites. |
The authorities identified David Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 50, as the attackers. |
Mr. Anderson had expressed anti-Semitic and anti-police views online, and investigators said they believed that the attack on the market was fueled by those sentiments. |
According to an official, Mr. Anderson appeared to have a connection to the Black Hebrew Israelite movement, which is listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The movement has no connection with mainstream Judaism. |
He and Ms. Graham are also suspects in a recent killing in Bayonne, N.J., according to officials. |
Surveillance footage showed that the market was targeted. |
The store was part of a budding ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood. Jersey City’s mayor, Steven Fulop, said the footage showed the attackers driving slowly toward the market. |
“The perpetrators stopped in front of there and calmly opened the door with two long rifles,” he said. |
In New York City, a unit will target far-right and extremist hate groups. |
Across the Hudson River, Mayor de Blasio announced yesterday that the New York Police Department had formed a new unit within its intelligence division, known as Racially and Ethnically Motivated Extremism. |
The unit, which began operating this month, is primarily tasked with investigating terror threats from far-right and neo-Nazi organizations. |
The Jersey City incident was a “violent, anti-Semitic hate crime,” Mr. de Blasio said. |
The detective was a longtime police veteran. |
Detective Seals, a 15-year law enforcement veteran and father of five, had recently been assigned to a task force focused on reducing gun violence in Jersey City, according to the city’s Police Department. |
“He always wanted to be a cop,” the detective’s mother, Deborah Ann Perruzza, told The Times. |
On Tuesday, Detective Seals had approached the assailants’ van near a cemetery, a law enforcement official said. The assailants shot him twice, Ms. Perruzza said, including once in the head. |
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And finally: The top New York dishes of 2019 |
Pete Wells, The Times’s restaurant critic, writes: |
This annual list of the top 10 dishes in New York is an exercise in selective memory: The trick is to remember every impressive snack, sandwich, pastry, main course and cocktail I ate over the past year without ever thinking about how much food it all adds up to. |
It helps to eliminate, right off the bat, anything I consumed in a restaurant that turned out to be one of my favorites of the year, and to focus instead on the runners-up. This allows me to shine some light on twice as many establishments while letting me imagine that this is all there was — just 10 things, each a perfect example of its type or of some new, previously unknown type, so intensely satisfying that maybe I didn’t even finish it, although of course I did. |
The regular slice and the Sicilian slice at F & F Pizzeria in Brooklyn: Both the regular slice (with or without cheese) and the Sicilian (always with cheese) are remarkable: firm underneath, extremely light in the middle, fragrant on top with tomato and excellent olive oil. |
The pasteles at the Freakin Rican in Queens: Unwrap the banana leaf and you’ve opened one of the gifts of Puerto Rican cuisine, a soft and sweet pulp of plantains, taro and pumpkin, with a savory core of pork stewed with green olives and red peppers. |
The Gruyère fritters at Crown Shy in Manhattan: These snacks are essentially warm churros filled with cayenne-laced cheese sauce. |
Metropolitan Diary: Wise words |
“Ninety-seventh and Third. Don’t forget. You are to always remember intersections; addresses are not as important in New York City.” |
That was the advice I got from the first doorman I ever met as I wrapped up my first week in New York in 2009. |
“Don’t go by the color, don’t call it subway. What do you mean by subway? It is a train and it can only go uptown or downtown, unless you are taking a shuttle one. Do you understand what I’m saying? Of course not. Just go around the corner over there and get on the uptown 6 train, not the 4 or the 5. Go, go.” |
That was what I was told by an older woman who told me what I needed to know to get home from Union Square on an arctic winter afternoon. |
All of my gratitude to the many doormen and busy pedestrians I have ever encountered. I carry your words with me still. |
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