By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A speed camera program expansion gained another layer of support Thursday as the City Council passed a resolution calling on the State Legislature to pass the broader trial program.

City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli (R-South Shore) and City Councilman David Carr (R-Mid-Island) joined five of their Council colleagues in voting against the resolution asking the Legislature for an expansion to the city’s school zone speed camera system that would allow the cameras to run all day.

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By Rich Calder

A Staten Island pol is making another push to turn New York City into the “four boroughs.”

Republican Council Minority Leader Joseph Borelli introduced legislation Thursday to create a task force to study the feasibility of Staten Island seceding from the left-leaning Big Apple and becoming an independent city.

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By Cayla Bamberger and Bernadette Hogan May 9, 2022 5:34pm  Updated

New York City public school students no longer have to be vaccinated against COVID-19 to attend prom this year, Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday.

“I am thrilled that, starting this year, every one of our young people will have the chance to celebrate all of their hard work with a prom and graduation, regardless of vaccination status,” Adams said in a statement about the policy change.

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By Rich Calder and David Meyer May 8, 2022 3:46pm  Updated

Some local pols claimed Sunday that the city has definitively decided to bar unvaccinated public-school students from prom — even as City Hall denied a decision had been made.

The group of five Republican and two Democratic City Council members issued a letter to city Health Commissioner Dr.

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By Bernadette Hogan, Haley Brown and Gabrielle Fonrouge April 25, 2022 7:02pm  Updated

New York lawmakers Monday said “we need to do more” after The Post revealed that four suspects busted by Mayor Eric Adams’ new anti-gun unit were released back on the street within hours of their arrests. 

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By Rich Calder April 9, 2022 9:35am  Updated

A Staten Island pol is amassing City Council support to formally demand Mayor Eric Adams rehire the 1,430 municipal employees canned for refusing to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

Council Minority Leader Joseph Borelli will be introducing a nonbinding resolution at Thursday’s meeting calling on Adams to rehire workers fired in February for failing to meet a vaccine-mandate deadline requiring proof of at least one shot.

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Published: Apr. 09, 2022, 5:45 p.m.

By David Luces | DLuces@siadvance.com

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — NYC Council Minority Leader Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) will be introducing a resolution calling on Mayor Eric Adams to rehire city employees who were fired because they did not get the mandated coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine by the February deadline.

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Updated: Mar. 25, 2022, 9:53 a.m. | Published: Mar. 24, 2022, 3:25 p.m.

By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Most private employees in New York City have needed coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines since Dec. 27, but that’s no longer true for some of the wealthiest among us.

Mayor Eric Adams announced Thursday that professional athletes and performers will no longer be beholden to the mandate, but people who lost their jobs since employment mandates went into effect, including former city workers, are out of luck.

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Updated: Feb. 22, 2022, 8:29 a.m. | Published: Feb. 21, 2022, 7:40 p.m.

By Joseph Ostapiuk | jostapiuk@siadvance.com

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Republican officials and nearly 200 Staten Islanders rallied Monday afternoon to call for an end to coronavirus (COVID-19) mask mandates in city schools, sounding fervent opposition to the measure that has been the source of heated debate.

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Published: Feb. 18, 2022, 3:52 p.m.

By Erik Bascome | tbascome@siadvance.com

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has launched a new chapter in the agency’s ongoing study to widen the borough’s narrowest bridge.

On Thursday, the Port Authority announced that it will begin a more thorough examination of potential options for widening the Outerbridge Crossing, which first opened in 1928, building on the results of preliminary feasibility study that was completed in 2020.

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