If you can't beat them, publicly shame them. That's the strategy that Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan is using at the shoplifting-plagued Staten Island Mall, where for the second year in a row his office has created a commercial showing the mug' [...]
Staten Island gets a bum rap and God knows we try to show the Forgotten Borough in a positive light. But japes like SNL's Gossip Girl: Staten Island threaten to undo all our good work. (See Isl...
Continue reading "Staten Island Movie Unlike to Lift Borough's'" [...]Last Christmas season, Staten Island D.A. Daniel Donovan cracked down on shoplifting at the Staten Island Mall by putting pictures of offenders in an attractive video display. This year he's doi...
Continue reading "Staten Island D.A. Tries Shame to Stop Christmas Shoplifters, Again" > [...]
David Shephard, joined by other advocates at City Hall.
At the end of last month, three people were killed in two hit-and-run accidents in New York City; the motorist responsible for each accident was driving with a suspended license. On Staten Island, [...]
This is turning into a trend. Like our own two robbers on Staten Island, the young man at left helpfully provided the police with a picture of himself taken with the cell phone he stole. ...
Continue reading "Another genius robber" > [...]It turns out there's a constituency for selling Staten Island after all. If you spot him the votes for C Montgomery Burns, Charles Montgomery Bunrs and CM Burns, fictional billionaire Charles Mont...
Continue reading "Monty Burns wins mayoral write-in vote" > [...]
Yesterday the City Council held a hearing on street safety for older New Yorkers. The hearing came while the deaths of Lillian and Peter Sabados, an elderly Staten Island couple run down by Allmir Lekperic on Thanksgiving eve, are still fresh in people's minds. But when it comes to keeping [...]
Photograph of St. Peter's R.C. Church from Medieval New York The Archdiocese of New York is asking a priest at a Staten Island church to go back to his "native Philippines because he’s ill with kidney disease," the Staten Island Advance [...]
State Senator Diane Savino, who represents Staten Island and Brooklyn, is getting praise for her speech in favor of gay marriage during the ultimately unsuccessful vote in the Senate yesterday.
She pointed out, "We're giving away husbands on a TV show," referred to' [...]
We have to admit, we laughed when we read the Advance headline, "Staten Island senator faces backlash over same-sex marriage vote." Backlash? In Staten Island? Where "the first openly gay club i...
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While President Obama's proposal to increase the number of troops in Afghanistan by 30,000 is taking heat from both Republicans and Democrats, Rep. Mike McMahon (D-Staten Island and Brooklyn) told Gothamist that he strongly supports the plan.
The first term Conressman — who replaced [...]
Recent parolee Akin Webster, 25, surrendered to police in connection with a drive-by shooting that killed a member of the Bloods gang in Arlington on Nov. 16. The suspect — who was paroled in March after serving three years for [...]
You may recall last week a couple of guys robbed a Staten Island Dunkin' Donuts, during commission of which crime they posed for this delightful surveillance camera portrait. Someone saw the phot...
Continue reading "Staten Island Robbers ID'd from Photo, Arrested" > [...]We've been having a bunch of bank robberies around these parts. Can you help out? On November 4, the woman at left hit the Banco Popular Banco Popular located at Broadway and 145th Street. She's...
Continue reading "Have You Seen... Bank Robbers in Harlem, Staten Island" [...]
Earlier this year Queens became the latest borough to join the Edible magazine family, a national network of about 60 magazines that cover local food trends and everything artisanal. The second issue of the Queens quarterly drops later this month, and the Daily [...]
Early this morning a sewage plant in Port Richmond, Staten Island was evacuated after a DEP worker and a couple of electricians were overcome by fumes there. Investigation suggests that the ill e...
Continue reading "Staten Island Wastewater Plant Evacuated, Fumes Sicken 3" > [...]
Over the weekend, a wake was held for Peter and Lillian Sabados, a Staten Island couple killed by a driver while walking to Thanksgiving Eve mass last week. The Daily News reports that Rev. Mario Ramirez said, "It's a loss for us as" [...]
The local economy is so bad it's eating into train ridership. MTA's figure, recently reported down 4 percent, appears to be leveling out, and MTA even holds out hope that it's not as bad as it lo...
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A Staten Island gang war that has claimed the lives of four men so far this month has gotten so intense that members of the Bloods are apparently skipping town to stay safe.
According to the Daily News, the internal squabble between Bloods members [...]
There are dramatically dueling macro and micro takes on the state of crime in the city this morning. The big picture, of course, comes from the Times which reports that, despite growing local pov...
Continue reading "Crime is down (Times), But it's bloody in Staten Island" [...]The Department of Transportation is actively considering installing the red-light camera requested by a local church hours before a couple of parishioners were killed at the intersection of Third ...
Continue reading "DOT considering traffic camera at hit-and-run intersection on Staten Island" >
Our Lady Queen of Peace Church on New Dorp Lane Allmir Lekperic, the 26-year-old Staten Island driver charged with fatally striking an elderly couple walking to a Thanksgiving Eve church mass and leaving the scene, posted the $50,000 bail. And his [...]
It makes a sort of twisted sense that Allmir Lekperic would try to find a way to wiggle out. Lekperic, 26, was driving with a suspended license when he allegedly struck and killed an elderly Stat...
Continue reading "Staten Island hit and run was a family" [...]
