Published: Jul. 26, 2024, 11:55 a.m.
By Tracey Porpora | porpora@siadvance.com
City Council Minority Leader Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) and his son, John, 4 at Owl Hollow. (Courtesy of Frank Rapacciuolo)
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Infused with a $4.6 million City Council allocation, the turf fields at Owl Hollow in Freshkills Park, which are used by sports leagues across the borough, will soon be refurbished.
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Updated: Jul. 02, 2024, 2:01 p.m. | Published: Jul. 02, 2024, 7:00 a.m.
By Pamela Silvestri | silvestri@siadvance.com
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Faith leaders and pantry operators had been holding their breath after the mayor proposed $31.2 million in cuts to a city program that serves 22 pantries across the Island, with an emphasis on fresh food.
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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 March 20, 2024, 12:30 p.m. ET
By Craig McCarthy, Emily Crane, and Carl Campanile
New York City Comptroller Brad Lander has drawn outrage for claiming that giving each of the tens of thousands of migrants pouring into the Big Apple free legal representation could net billions in economic benefits for New York state.
Lander’s office said in a report that coughing up individual lawyers to rep migrants could prevent roughly 53,000 asylum seekers from being deported across the Empire State — resulting in an estimated net benefit of $8.4 billion for local, state and federal governments.
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On April 8, 2021, Council Member Joseph Borelli (R-District 51) has announced the assemblance of a New York City Long-Term Economic Recovery Proposal, designed to meet the needs of addressing the City’s COVID-19 pandemic related revenue decline. The plan acknowledges the City’s current financial crisis, proposing some new and some not so unfamiliar ideas, combining bipartisan recommendations that have been long advocated for from New York elected officials throughout the years.
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