Published June 28, 2024 Updated June 28, 2024, 6:17 p.m. ET
By Aneeta Bhole and Matt Troutman
They’re landing the budget plane – and it’s a $112.4 billion jumbo jet.
Mayor Eric Adams and City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams celebrated a handshake agreement Friday on a record-breaking 2025 fiscal year proposed budget that will reverse the majority of controversial cuts – including to libraries – pushed by Hizzoner in recent months.
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Published June 27, 2024, 6:02 p.m. ET
By Aneeta Bhole, Haley Brown and Matt Troutman
An accused cop shooter who claimed a Venezuelan gang is smuggling guns into migrant facilities stayed at a shelter with a X-ray and magnetometer to scan for weapons, officials said.
Security guards at the East Elmhurst shelter have been “retrained” on the proper use of handheld wands and scanning belongings since former resident Bernardo Raul Castro Mata, 19, allegedly shot two NYPD officers, city officials told The Post.
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Published June 23, 2024, 5:14 p.m. ET
By Carl Campanile
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has halted construction projects at two Queens rail stations to put pressure on Gov. Kathy Hochul after she knocked down the unpopular congestion pricing plan, sources said.
The MTA sent a letter ordering a contractor to immediately suspend work on making its Long Island Railroad stations in Forest Hills and Hollis more accessible to riders with disabilities
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Published June 15, 2024, 11:53 a.m. ET
By Rich Calder
New York City voters in November could have the power to repeal “misguided and dangerous” “sanctuary city” laws that severely limit the NYPD’s ability to cooperate with the feds on immigration matters and are a clear “threat to public safety.”
Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island), Robert Holden (D-Queens) and six other members of the City Council’s “Common Sense Caucus” fired off a letter this week to a newly-appointed Charter Revision Commission, asking it to put a referendum question on the ballot to determine whether to roll back the “sanctuary” laws that help criminals avoid deportation.
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Published June 8, 2024, 10:44 a.m. ET
By Rich Calder
The Hochul administration is staring at the grim prospect of having to flush a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money down the toilet over the botched congestion pricing scheme.
The boondoggle could’ve been avoided had Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority seriously studied what the economic impact on New York residents and businesses would be by charging drivers $15 to enter parts of Manhattan, critics said.
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Published June 1, 2024, 12:07 p.m. ET
By Rich Calder
Migrant-friendly laws that limit local law enforcement’s ability to cooperate with the feds on immigration matters would be repealed under new legislation to be considered by the NYC Council.
Council members Robert Holden (D-Queens) and Joe Borelli (R-Staten Island) told The Post they’ll introduce a bill Thursday that would roll back so-called “sanctuary city” laws approved from 2014-2018 under then-Mayor Bill de Blasio.
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Updated: May. 29, 2024, 1:35 p.m. | Published: May. 28, 2024, 10:26 p.m.
By Carol Ann Benanti | benanti@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Councilman Joe Borelli conducted a street co-naming ceremony in Great Kills last week to pay tribute to USAF Captain (Ret.) Ted Cohen, who served in the Air Force from 1959 to 1969 and continued to encourage and support military causes until his passing last year.
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Published: May 27, 2024, 1:40 p.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A nearly 100-year-old Oakwood cemetery originally built for African Americans took another step toward landmark status this week after the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission held a hearing Tuesday.
Frederick Douglass Memorial Park, at the corner of Amboy Road and Montreal Avenue, looks poised for landmark status as multiple people testified in support during the hearing, including Councilwoman Kamillah Hanks (D-North Shore), who chairs the Council’s Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings, and Disposition.
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Published May 25, 2024, 11:33 a.m. ET
By Matthew Sedacca
They were more prepared than weekend glampers in the Catskills.
Plastic bags stuffed with supplies that appear to have been intended for the Columbia anti-Israel encampments recently lined the curb for trash pickup outside the Morningside Heights campus, footage shared by recycling advocate Anna Sacksshowed.
Among the junked sundries meant to fuel the demonstrations were Costco-size boxes of Nature Valley protein bars, instant noodles and dozens of unopened emergency blankets and ponchos.
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Updated: May. 21, 2024, 8:55 p.m. | Published: May. 21, 2024, 4:52 p.m.
By Jillian Delaney | jdelaney@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In an effort to quicken the rate of thyroid cancer detection, Staten Island Councilman Joe Borelli (R – South Shore) is hosting a screening event on the South Shore.
Administered by HeartScan Services and held at Mount Loretto’s Catholic Charities of Staten Island, this free screening event is this year’s iteration of the service — which “has been a great success” in the past, according to a written statement.
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