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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A $400,000 grant secured by Rep. Nicole Malliotakis will benefit Staten Island children and youth seeking mental health and substance abuse services at Richmond University Medical Center (RUMC).
The funding is in the form of a federal grant from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and will go to the West Brighton hospital’s Staten Island Children’s Trauma Center.
After years of complaints by boaters and community residents, three abandoned boats were removed on Monday that washed up near the marina in Great Kills Park in 2019.
Congestion pricing in New York City has been in limbo since it passed as part of the 2019 state budget, but Rep. Nicole Malliotakis is trying to get ahead of an additional toll burden it could put on Staten Islanders.
To be implemented, the new system needs federal approval through an environmental review process, because some of the roads that would be affected below Manhattan’s 61st Street receive federal funding.
Freshman Staten Island Rep. Nicole Malliotakis introduced two new bills last week, focusing on government accountability and protecting her constituents from higher tolls.
In the “Protection Against Double Tolling Act,” the Republican lawmaker would require the feds to give a break to residents of Staten Island in the event New York City adopted a congestion-pricing plan.
House Republicans waded into the controversy surrounding Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and comments made by the Minnesota lawmaker this week that appeared to equate the U.S. and Israel with the terrorist groups Hamas and the Taliban. Omar walked back the comments on Thursday after pushback from a group of a dozen Jewish Democratic lawmakers.
On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Live,” Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) said that we need to know what was in the redacted portions of emails from White House Chief Medical Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci discussing the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
On the steps of the Yeshivah of Flatbush Joel Braverman High School, a pair of Brooklyn pols gathered on June 3 to condemn rising anti-Semitic violence in New York City.
Republican Rep. Nicole Malliotakis and Democratic Councilmember Kalman Yeger crossed party lines to address mounting safety concerns in the Jewish community.
Yeger, who represents Bensonhurst, Borough Park, and Midwood, called on other elected officials to work to denounce anti-Semitism.
A Staten Island lawmaker has introduced a new bill that would ban Black Lives Matter — and other “political” — flags from flying atop United States embassies.
President Joe Biden has made his intentions to return to the failed foreign policies of the past very clear. This includes the Biden administration’s intent for the United States to "re-engage immediately and robustly" with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) without receiving any commitments for much needed institutional reforms.
Murders, shootings, hate crimes, burglaries, robberies, and rapes have skyrocketed over the past year and lawmakers say ‘‘enough is enough.’'
Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis, City Council Minority Leader Steven Matteo, Councilman Joe Borelli, Assemblyman Michael Reilly, and Assemblyman Michael Tannousis convened on Monday morning for a press conference to call attention to the recent surge in crime and the need to change current policies in order to restore safety in Staten Island and New York City.