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Skippy’s hot dog truck returned to its Dongan Hills home of 60-plus years earlier this month. On a Friday morning, operator Dawn LaVigne anchored her 1996 Grumman at her long-time spot between Slater and Jefferson Avenues, a former grassy clearing once surrounded by cattails.
On a breezy fall afternoon outside of Olive Tree Marketplace, Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) talked about skyrocketing inflation and soaring energy costs. The Sunnyside grocery store seemed a fitting backdrop for her press conference, as its owner, David Shehadeh, drove home the impact high gasoline prices on his food operation — and ultimately, his customers.
“The rates for deliveries [to me] have increased and now there’s now a surcharge for gas, which is making my profit margin very low to the point where it’s hard to do business,” said Shehadeh.
(BROOKLYN, NY) - Today Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) and State Assemblyman Mike Tannousis called on New York City to crack down on illegally operating unlicensed marijuana dispensaries popping up next to residential homes, schools, and community centers in the Bay Ridge neighborhood.
(STATEN ISLAND, NY) - Today Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) joined David Shehadeh, owner of Olive Tree Marketplace on Staten Island, and concerned consumers to show how skyrocketing inflation and rising energy costs are impacting New York City food markets and consumers, explain how the backward policies of the Biden Administration got us here and lay out Republican solutions to restore our energy independence and provide relief for American families.
(STATEN ISLAND, NY) - Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) today announced that the Empire State Development Corporation will be awarded a $48,008,231 federal grant to fund a dredging project in Staten Island's Arthur Kill Terminal to make way for an offshore wind staging and assembly facility.
Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) on October 19 released the following statement and attached report card recapping her first term in office representing New York’s 11th Congressional District:
Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) and Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) have formally called for a Congressional oversight hearing and an investigation into New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (MTA) mismanagement of federal dollars from both the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.
(WASHINGTON, DC) - Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) and Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) have formally called for a Congressional oversight hearing and an investigation into New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority's (MTA) mismanagement of federal dollars from both the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis.
(STATEN ISLAND, NY) - Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) today joined Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella, Assemblyman Michael Tannousis, City Councilman David Carr, and concerned members of the Staten Island community to outline federal solutions to address the flow of illegal immigration, speed up the asylum process and stop the migrant crisis from worsening in New York and cities across America.
The nearly 6,000 spouses and children of Sept. 11, 2001 victims have the support of U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, as a piece of legislation that would reverse an exclusion that barred them from compensation heads to the Senate for a vote.
Direct family members of first responders who perished on Sept. 11 were wrongfully barred from receiving money owed to them from the United States Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund (USVSST) and have been tirelessly advocating to right the wrong.