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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Rep. Nicole Malliotakis recently announced she has secured $11.2 million for various projects across Staten Island and Southern Brooklyn -- including funding for Richmond University Medical Center, (RUMC) Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH), the Goodhue Community Center and the St. George Theatre.
The monies are part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022, which is included in the U.S. budget, and recently pass the House and Senate and was signed by the president to become law.
(STATEN ISLAND/BROOKLYN, NY) -Today Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) joined Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella and local veterans groups at two events to speak out against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) proposal to close and consolidate VA Medical Centers in New York City.
(WASHINGTON, DC) - Today, Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) announced that she has secured $11,276,560 for various projects across Staten Island and Southern Brooklyn as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022, the federal government's operational budget. In July, Malliotakis was able to get funding for nine local projects reported out of the House Appropriations Committee. Today, the bill was passed out of the House.
The Biden administration plans to close two of the Veterans Administration hospitals in New York City — in Brooklyn and Manhattan, The Post has learned.
The VA would close those two hospitals and contract with private medical providers as part of a “strategic collaboration” to treat vets.
The plan sparked immediate rebuke from Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island).
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Rep. Nicole Malliotakis disagreed Tuesday night when she heard President Joe Biden say the state of the union is strong.
On Wednesday, Malliotakis pointed to things like rising prices at the gas pump, supply chain issues, and an uptick in crime to paint a stark contrast to the positive image Biden laid out during his first State of the Union address to Congress.
“The Biden administration created a lot of this pain that American families are feeling through their policies,” she said. “We really need to reverse course here.”
Earlier this month, a constituent reached out to my office seeking assistance with Social Security Insurance (SSI). When he became the legal guardian of his developmentally disabled niece, he found himself struggling to pay for the 24/7 caregiver support she required.
Republican officials and nearly 200 Staten Islanders rallied Monday afternoon to call for an end to coronavirus (COVID-19) mask mandates in city schools, sounding fervent opposition to the measure that has been the source of heated debate.
The protest, held at the Staten Island Republican headquarters in New Dorp, included GOP speakers from the city, state and federal levels and drew a raucous crowd, including young children, that urged for stronger actions to be taken against the directive.
Periods without heat or hot water; mold, rat and roach infestations; and broken elevators are among the inadequate conditions many residents of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and other government-subsidized housing in New York City have endured for years.
Over the past few months the Advance/SILive.com has documented the stories of residents and witnessed the conditions first-hand as part of an in-depth series looking at government subsidized housing on Staten Island, the problems residents face and poor conditions that exist in many locations.
(WASHINGTON, DC) - Today Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) cosponsored the Fentanyl Trafficker Elimination Act, legislation that holds fentanyl smugglers accountable for their role in the United States' opioid epidemic, as well as the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of Fentanyl Act that would permanently schedule fentanyl analogs increasing criminal penalties, and the Public Safety Enhancement Act of 2021 that would reauthorize Title I of the Omnib
When former Mayor Bill de Blasio announced late last year that New York City would be the first in the nation to be home to safe injection sites, it was never clear if the city reached an agreement with the federal government.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/Brooklyn) was one of the first local officials to point to a federal court decision in Jan. 2021 against a similar operation in Philadelphia in a case that the Department of Justice (DOJ) brought under former President Donald Trump.