Updated: Sep. 16, 2022, 5:56 a.m. Published: Sep. 15, 2022, 4:58 p.m.
By Erik Bascome | tbascome@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — For nearly 100 years, Staten Islanders have driven over the Outerbridge Crossing, but if the borough’s elected officials get their way, residents could be driving under it in the years to come.
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BY CHRISTINA FAN SEPTEMBER 12, 2022 / 5:25 PM / CBS NEW YORK
NEW YORK — Bipartisan opposition is building against congestion pricing.
On Monday, a group of legislators alarmed by the environmental impacts urged Gov. Kathy Hochul to re-think her position, CBS2’s Christina Fan reported.
London is supposed to be the shining beacon of congestion pricing success, but
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By Cayla Bamberger September 6, 2022 6:33pm Updated
City council members voted Tuesday to restore hundreds of millions of dollars to New York’s school budget — just months after many of them voted to make the very same cuts.
The mostly symbolic reversal, which got unanimous support from a bipartisan group of 41 council members, is non-binding, and calls on Mayor Eric Adams to use temporary COVID aid or other funds
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By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The New York City Council passed a resolution Tuesday calling for Mayor Eric Adams and the Department of Education to fully restore $469 million in school budget cuts.
All three of Staten Island’s City Councilmembers — City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli (R-South Shore), City Councilman David Carr (R-Mid-Island) and City Councilwoman Kamillah Hanks (D-North Shore) — voted in favor of the resolution.
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By Kayla Simas | KSimas@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Close to 150 friends and family members gathered Friday morning to pay tribute to beloved firefighter Jimmy Martinez, 58, of Great Kills during a street renaming ceremony.
The intersection of Beach Road and Hillcrest Street was dedicated to the 26-year career decorated firefighter from both Staten Island and Brooklyn, who died after succumbing to a 9/11-related illness on August 24, 2018.
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By Joe Borelli
City Hall has one of the finest views of the Brooklyn Bridge: a unique angle of a Gilded Age wonder, with its Gothic arches and cable lattice pointing upward for nearly 140 years, now captured daily by Tik Tok phototourists.
And though my City Hall colleagues (and our pals in the statehouse) can’t seem to see it, this magnificent bridge is also a triumph of urban transportation, allowing middle-class residents outside dense Manhattan to get themselves to their jobs, doctors, relatives, shops, restaurants and theaters.
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By Ann Marie Barron | ABarron@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — City Councilman Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) is urging two city agencies to help control the invasion of spotted lanternflies on Staten Island, with the invasive pests threatening the borough’s ecology and “reproducing at an alarming rate.”
The councilman recently penned a letter to Susan M.
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By SALLY GOLDENBERG and JOE ANUTA
NEW YORK — In a deep-blue stronghold of 8.8 million people, where Democratic voters dominate Republicans 7 to 1, a conservative city lawmaker from the remotest reach of the self-proclaimed “forgotten borough” has emerged a power broker.
Staten Island Council Member Joe Borelli, leader of the 51-member body’s five-person Republican caucus, is playing an outsize role reforging the Council district lines that lawmakers must defend next year in an off-cycle election triggered by once-in-a-decade redistricting.
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By David Meyer
City Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez shamelessly exploited a visit to the scene of a deadly Staten Island crash to tout unrelated local new bike lanes Monday and should apologize, a local pol says.
“Our DOT commissioner just showed up for a photo op at the site of last night’s horrific accident, which tragically claimed the lives of three teenagers, to announce that DOT will be installing bike lanes and turning lanes over a half a mile away,” City Councilman Joe Borelli (R-South Shore)
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By Joe Borelli
Intestinal fortitude is a rare commodity in politics, and nowhere was its absence more evident than in the word salads Gov. Kathy Hochul tossed up on congestion pricing in last month’s Democratic primary debates.
Congestion pricing is an awful plan. It hasn’t worked in London. It won’t work here.
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