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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Published June 5, 2024 Updated June 5, 2024, 12:19 p.m. ET
By Carl Campanile , Craig McCarthy , Vaughn Golden and Olivia Land
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul is ditching the MTA congestion pricing plan indefinitely — with insiders saying she’s worried that it’s “not the right time” as New Yorkers face a cost-of-living crisis.
Hochul announced plans to delay the $15 toll’s June 30 start date on Wednesday, citing the increased cost on working people, including teachers and firefighters.
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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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Published May 2, 2024, 9:12 a.m. ET
By Emily Crane
Columbia University and other private colleges should cough up and help foot the bill for the NYPD having to swarm the Ivy League campus and crack down on pro-terror protests, Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday.
Hizzoner addressed the cost to Big Apple taxpayers after cops were finally called in to help oust a destructive mob that had illegally taken over Columbia’s Hamilton Hall academic building late Tuesday and to clear out an encampment on the school’s iconic lawn.
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Published April 29, 2024, 5:55 p.m. ET
By Craig McCarthy
City lawmakers called on the mayor and FDNY officials to help the family of an ex-firefighter who died after he was fired to cover costs for the migrant crisis.
Derek Floyd died of a heart attack earlier this month and his family was left with next to nothing after the 36-year-old was canned late last year as part of the administration’s cost-cutting measure to pay for the nearly $10 billion use to house and feed the tens of thousands of asylum seekers in NYC, The Post revealed.
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Published March 12, 2024, 7:16 p.m. ET
By Joe Borelli
MTA Chairman Janno Lieber is determined to see congestion pricing through. Stephen Yang
John Samuelsen, president of the 155,000-member Transit Workers of America, is blasting the latest version of congestion pricing for failing to improve express bus service to the outer-boroughs.
He’s right.
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