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Most of the Island’s elected political delegation, led by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn), gathered outside Fort Wadsworth on Wednesday to decry the possibility of the site being used to house some of the tens of thousands of migrants in the city’s care.
oday Reps. Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11), Gus Bilirakis (FL-12), Chris Pappas (NH-01) and Dina Titus (NV-01), members of the Congressional Hellenic Caucus, released the following statement regarding this morning’s assault on United Nations (UN) peacekeepers and property by Turkish forces in Cyprus.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., is calling on New York City to drop any charges against people who were protesting expected plans for a nursing home in her district to be converted into an emergency migrant shelter.
The audacity! Staten Island elected officials are making it known to City Hall and the Biden administration to halt plans to use Fort Wadsworth as a possible migrant shelter site, charging that doing so would violate federal protections of national historic landmarks.
Senior citizens who have received unsolicited coronavirus (COVID-19) test kids in recent months may be victims of a scam, and two local officials are urging them to take action.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) and Borough President Vito Fossella on Monday issued a joint press release calling on seniors who received unsolicited COVID-19 tests to report providers to the Medicare Fraud Line, ask for a new Medicare Card, and report the fraud to the congresswoman’s office.
After years of delays, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) believes a vital resiliency project is ready to move forward along the East Shore.
Malliotakis has long maintained that design conflicts between the city and federal governments have been a key cause to delays for the massive project officially known as the South Shore of Staten Island Coastal Storm Risk Management Project, but colloquially referred to as the East Shore Sea Wall.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (PIX11) – The war between New York City and New Jersey over congestion pricing is heating up.
Last week, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy sued the federal Department of Transportation and the Highway Administration to try and stop the plan, which would toll drivers who enter Manhattan below 60th Street.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis has announced that her language meant to prevent the implementation of New York City’s congestion pricing plan was included in the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill, which passed the House Appropriations Committee this week.
The House on Wednesday voted in favor of barring the use of public schools and colleges that receive federal funds as shelters for migrants.
The Schools Not Shelters Act passed the lower chamber in a 222-201 vote, with four Democrats joining all Republicans to vote in support of the legislation.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Sandy Ground -- the oldest free Black community still inhabited by descendants of its original settlers -- inched one step closer to preserving its place in history when its leadership was able to recently reclaim its non-profit status.