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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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
Two years ago I heard that Mayor Adams was interested in getting the DNC to come here to New York City this year.
As soon as I heard it, the first thing I did was I called up the mayor — actually, I texted him — and I called up some of his people and I said, “Make me a part of this, I want to be a part of this.”
People said, well, you’re a Republican, why do you want this?
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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
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In a hall off Richmond Road, elected Staten Island GOP officials gathered to express their sorrow and outrage over the apparent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
“This is a crucial moment in history.
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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
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.
He said he supported a bill pushed by the Common Sense Caucus — a bipartisan group of the City Council’s most conservative members, including Minority Leader Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) and Councilman David Carr (R-Mid-Island/South Brooklyn) — that would repeal portions of the city Administrative Code precluding city agencies’ cooperation with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
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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
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 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 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 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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