This Google Street View screenshot shows 1492 East 17th St. as it formerly stood in June 2018. Arsonist Matthew Karelefsky, 46, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania was sentenced to 25-years-to-life for burning it down and the two houses next to it.
A deranged 46-year-old from Pennsylvania will spend the rest of his life in prison after he burned down three houses in Midwood in an attempt to kill a rabbi.
Matthew Karelefsky, 46, of McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison by the Brooklyn Supreme Court on Monday for his involvement in a 2019 arson that targeted a rabbi’s home in the Midwood.
The arson resulted in the destruction of three homes, including that of the intended victim, and caused injuries to six individuals, among them a six-week-old infant, a firefighter and two NYPD officers.
Karelefsky was convicted on Feb. 7, 2024, of first-degree attempted murder, second-degree arson, six counts of second-degree assault, and two counts of fourth-degree arson following a jury trial in front of Justice Donald Leo.
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