In the News
“As the Rolling Stones said, “You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find you get what you need.”
As New York City continues to scramble to find places for the hundreds of migrants arriving daily.
Republican New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis pushed back against CNN’s Jim Sciutto on Wednesday after he claimed migrant crossings are virtually the same under President Joe Biden as they were under former President Donald Trump.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) alongside NYPD Deputy Chief Joseph Gulotta kicked off National Police Week by highlighting the dedication of police officers on Staten Island and across New York City during a press conference at the 121st Precinct stationhouse in Graniteville on Monday morning.
“We’re all here today because trade is all our livelihood,” John Atkins, president of Global Containers Terminal New York, said in his testimony at the U.S. House Committee of Ways and Means’ hearing in Staten Island on Tuesday.
Mayor Adams and several Staten Island elected officials are pushing for New York State policy to be amended to unlock U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funding that New York City could use to upgrade its essential water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure.
Republican New York Rep. Nicole Malliotakis suggested Wednesday that teachers unions used campaign donations to buy access that allowed them extensive influence in writing COVID-19 guidelines.
Borough President Vito Fossella called a stabbing at the Great Kills station of the Staten Island Railway (SIR) on Friday and other recent incidents of violent crime the direct result of the “turnstile concept of justice.”