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House Republicans, including Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn), received a chilly reception at Columbia University Wednesday after meeting with Jewish students about on-campus antisemitism.
“It’s shocking the amount of antisemitism that we’re seeing coming out of America’s colleges,” Malliotakis said. “It is heartbreaking.”
The group, led by Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), visited the Morningside Heights institution to learn more about the ongoing protests in support of the Palestinian people, and its impact on the school.
Staten Island Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis has joined forces with New Jersey Democratic Rep. Josh Gottheimer in a renewed effort against congestion pricing.
Malliotakis, whose previous attempts to stop congestion pricing were unsuccessful, and Gottheimer are now aiming to amend a broader piece of federal legislation dealing with toll road and express lane programs nationwide.
Earth Day gifted Staten Island blue skies, puffy clouds, and a refreshing breeze, setting the scene for Rep. Nicole Malliotakis’ (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) $1 million announcement to reconstruct Ocean Breeze’s streets to help the Mid-Island Bluebelt.
Staten Island’s Bluebelt system is an innovative network of green infrastructure that uses natural drainage corridors to take pressure off the city’s sewer system.
House Republican conference chairwoman Elise Stefanik and every New York GOP House lawmaker demanded on Monday that Columbia president Minouche Shafik resign immediately for failing to crack down on “a large unauthorized antisemitic riot” that has engulfed the university’s campus.
“It is time for Columbia University to turn the page on this shameful chapter. This can only be done through the restoration of order and your prompt resignation,” Stefanik and the nine other Republican representatives from the Empire State wrote in a letter exclusively obtained by The Post.
While the start of congestion pricing is slated for mid-June, Staten Island’s elected officials aren’t ready to call the battle against it quits.
Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R-East Shore/Brooklyn) is introducing legislation repealing the MTA’s controversial congestion pricing plan, he announced at a press conference on Monday at the foot of the Verrazzano Bridge.
This week marks the 500th anniversary of Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano’s arrival in New York Bay — and to commemorate it, drivers should get a toll break on his famed namesake bridge, a local pol says.
The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, which connects Staten Island and Brooklyn, was opened in 1964 and named after the explorer, who entered the bay April 17, 1524.
A bipartisan measure targeting maximum pain tests on cats and dogs was introduced on Thursday, the latest in a string of efforts to curb tax dollar support for animal testing.
Congresswomen Grace Meng (D-Flushing) and Nicole Malliotakis (R-Brooklyn/Staten Island) recently announced the introduction of the Fair Access to Co-Ops for Veterans Act, a bipartisan bill to make it easier for veterans in Queens and across the nation to purchase co-ops.
The New York City Council asked the state’s highest court to strike down a pair of rulings in a move that would pave the way for noncitizen immigrants to vote in city elections.
The controversial election change, passed by the City Council in late 2021 and signed into law by then-Mayor Bill de Blasio, would have allowed 800,000 noncitizens with green cards to vote but was struck down as unconstitutional last month by an appellate court.