Published: Jul. 16, 2024, 3:11 p.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli addresses the media during a call for unity at City Hall with Mayor Eric Adams and other faith and political leaders Sunday, July 14, 2024. (Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office)
CITY HALL — Mayor Eric Adams had high praise for a Staten Island elected official this week over his response to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
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Published July 15, 2024, 4:45 p.m. ET
By Joe Borelli
City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli speaking at a City Hall event with Mayor Adams and faith leaders following the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. James Keivom
City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli’s remarks at Sunday’s City Hall event called by Mayor Adams to promote unity in the wake of the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
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Updated: Jul. 15, 2024, 9:47 a.m. | Published: Jul. 14, 2024, 5:29 p.m.
By Jillian Delaney | jdelaney@siadvance.com
Sen. Andrew Lanza speaks at the Staten Island Republican Party Headquarters on July 14, 2024, a day after an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump occurred. (Staten Island Advance/Jillian Delaney) Staten Island Advance/Jillian Delaney
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.
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Updated: Jul. 09, 2024, 6:15 p.m. | Published: Jul. 09, 2024, 6:14 p.m.
By Paul Liotta | pliotta@siadvance.com
The entrance to the Rikers Island jail complex is shown iTuesday, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey)
CITY HALL — Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that he supports a conservative-pushed rollback of sanctuary city policies passed during Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration.
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Published July 3, 2024, 6:33 p.m. ET
By The Center Square
New York City officials are dramatically expanding a controversial program that gives debit cards pre-loaded with cash to migrant families staying in taxpayer-funded hotels across the city.
The Adams administration says another round of debit cards is expected to be distributed to more than 7,300 migrants over the next six months, costing the city about $2.6 million.
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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
Dozens of faith leaders and pantry operators had gathered Wednesday on the steps of Borough Hall, St. George, in a last-ditch effort to save the borough pantries which stood to lose nearly half their funding. In a last-minute addition to the budget, fate changed for some struggling New Yorkers.
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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 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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