Published Feb. 6, 2024 Updated Feb. 6, 2024, 3:31 p.m. ET
By Post Editorial Board
Opposition to New York’s coming congestion pricing continues to snowball — and rightly so.
The United Federation of Teachers and Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella are suing to stop the scheme to raise MTA revenue by taxing drivers entering Midtown Manhattan south of 60th Street, and a real gorilla just joined in:
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Published Feb. 4, 2024, 8:10 p.m. ET
By Carl Campanile
Eighteen elected officials have joined a federal lawsuit by the teachers union aimed at blocking the controversial new $15 congestion pricing toll to enter Midtown Manhattan.
More than half the plaintiffs are Democrats whose fellow party members approved the law greenlighting congestion pricing in 2019.
UTF President Mike Mulgrew and Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella welcomed the growing, bipartisan coalition who object to having constituents and members pay such a high toll to drive into Midtown south of 60th Street.
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Published Feb. 3, 2024, 9:49 a.m. ET
By Rich Calder and Matthew Sedacca
A judge blasted Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for trying to throw the book at two New Yorkers who bought fake COVID-19 vaccine cards — despite routinely going easy on others charged with far more serious crimes.
In a ruling issued this week, state Supreme Court Justice Brendan T.
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Published: Jan. 27, 2024, 4:59 p.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Borough President Vito Fossella announced Friday an updated complaint in his federal court case against New York’s congestion pricing plan — likening it to one of Staten Island’s greatest environmental disasters.
Fossella brought the lawsuit earlier this month with the United Federation of Teachers, led by Staten Islander Michael Mulgrew and a host of the city’s public school teachers.
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Published Jan. 25, 2024, 7:34 p.m. ET
By Joe Borelli
In the classic prison film “Papillon,” when inmate Henri Charrière refuses to tell guards who helped him smuggle coconuts into jail, the warden punishes him by cutting his rations in half and confining him to a lightless cell the size of broom closet for six months.
“Darkness does wonders for a bad memory,” the warden sneers.
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By Rich Calder
Published Jan. 6, 2024, 12:51 p.m. ET
New York City’s powerful teachers’ union is bankrolling Staten Island’s legal fight to stop the MTA’s congestion pricing plan, The Post has learned.
The United Federation of Teachers is “taking the lead” on the Brooklyn federal court lawsuit, supplying the lawyers and planning to pick up all costs associated with the case, said Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella, who along with the union is a plaintiff in the suit.
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Updated: Dec. 26, 2023, 7:34 p.m. | Published: Dec. 26, 2023, 3:24 p.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — One of the city’s largest public sector unions broke with a Staten Island councilmember last week after her vote on a controversial police bill.
In a scathing statement to members, Vincent Vallelong, president of the NYPD Sergeants Benevolent Association (SBA), called out Councilwoman Kamillah Hanks (D-North Shore) for her vote in favor of a piece of police transparency legislation commonly known as the “How Many Stops Act,” which passed Wednesday.
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Updated: Dec. 21, 2023, 5:13 p.m.|Published: Dec. 21, 2023, 3:23 p.m.
Erik Bascome | tbascome@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Late-night riders of the Staten Island Railway (SIR) can now feel safer entering and exiting the Great Kills train station.
On Tuesday, Councilman Joe Borelli (R-South Shore) announced that new lighting fixtures have been installed in a dark alley at the rear entrance of the station.
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Updated: Dec. 11, 2023, 5:55 p.m.|Published: Dec. 11, 2023, 12:01 p.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A looming court decision brought out a group of elected officials and political activists Monday to speak out against what they characterized as a possible gerrymander.
New York’s Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, heard arguments Nov.
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By Joe Borelli
Published Nov. 16, 2023, 10:27 p.m. ET
Have you ever been out to dinner with a group where some members of the party order appetizers and steaks, pick a premium bottle off the wine list and signal for extra truffle shavings on their gnocchi while others at the table order a side salad and water?
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