Jewish Schools Around New York City Are Hiring Armed Guards

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7 WAR AT HOME [Jewish Schools Around New York City Are Hiring Armed Guards]( “We didn’t wait to hear that people wanted to increase security. We did it immediately.” Photo: Marc Volk/Getty Images/fStop On October 7, Mitchell Silber was at a hotel in Ashdod, about 25 miles south of Tel Aviv. Silber, a former intelligence official of the New York City Police Department who now works in the private sector, was attending a counterterrorism conference organized by the Israeli government, and he had invited along a delegation of law-enforcement officers from across New York State. Instead of a day of meetings, they found themselves under Hamas’s rocket fire, and fled in the middle of the night to catch a flight through Dubai. By the time Silber landed back in New York, his phone was a stream of frenzied texts and emails: “Can you get us a security guard?” “Can you make sure the police come visit us?” “We just had a swastika carved into the sidewalk in front of our street.” “Should we be open on Friday?” Silber says, “We were out of the frying pan and into the fire.” [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( to save over 60% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [She Finally Got Around to Really Decorating Her Tribeca Penthouse Artist Claudia Doring Baez lived in the former Wool Club space atop American Thread Building for 22 years before enlisting the help of an architect.]( By Wendy Goodman [The Construction Company Linked to the Corruption Probe of Eric Adams’s Campaign Until now, KSK has mostly been known for its unremarkable luxury buildings.]( By Kim Velsey [Someone Broke Moynihan Train Hall’s Skylights — From the Outside The indoor scaffolding is just a precaution while the glass is replaced.]( By Christopher Bonanos [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday](. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved