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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A long-awaited coastal resiliency project finally got underway Monday in South Beach as officials marked the 12th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy’s devastation of Staten Island.
The massive storm ravaged the Island‘s East Shore when it made landfall Oct. 29, 2012, and its aftermath advanced the East Shore Seawall, a $2.3 billion project for which Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) led Monday’s groundbreaking.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Politicians from both sides of the aisle gathered in front of St. Joseph Hill Academy with parents to demand a remedy to discontinued special education services in non-public schools.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - There’s nothing neighborly about these flights.
Staten Islanders are fed up with persistent noise from low-flying helicopters, including sightseeing choppers flying out of Linden Airport in New Jersey.
“There seem to be operators who are violating FAA rules and also flying at low and potentially unsafe levels,” said Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn).
Taxpayer refund checks are getting stolen in the mail.
And then, when the Treasury Department issues the taxpayer a new check through the mail, the replacement is getting stolen too.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R., N.Y.) said her office has fielded 218 cases of stolen checks totaling $3.8 million, with amounts ranging from a few hundred dollars up to $500,000. In one case, it took a constituent four tries to get a refund check delivered.
Bipartisan legislation that would require infertility treatments, like in vitro fertilization, to be covered by private insurance has the support of Staten Island’s congresswoman.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis is co-sponsoring the Helping to Optimize Patients’ Experience (H.O.P.E.) with Fertility Services Act, alongside Reps. Lori Chavez-Deremer, Zach Nunn, Susan Wild, and Debbie Wasserman Schultz, of Oregon, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Florida, respectively.
The measure would ensure infertility care is treated just as any other disease.
After years of persistent advocacy from Congress, organizations and animal lovers across the country, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) just confirmed, “We are no longer conducting any feline testing and are now bringing an end to animal research on sensitive species,” meaning cats, dogs, and non-human primates.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The Richmond County District Attorney’s Office was awarded a $500,000 federal grant to establish a cold case unit on the borough.
The grant will supply the office with the funding needed to establish the unit and dedicate more time to investigating violent cold cases that already have suspect DNA profiles.
The money was administered through the Bureau of Justice Assistance and awarded under the FY24 Prosecuting Cold Cases Using DNA grant program.
Feeding into this cycle is the undeniable connection between the sentiments towards crime and the escalating mental health crisis plaguing our nation. The numbers speak for themselves: an eye-opening 2022 analysis by the NYPD revealed more than 23% of individuals arrested for one of the seven major felony offenses had a documented history of mental illness, with nearly 40% of the offenses taking place in our city’s transit system.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — One of the migrants allegedly involved in an assault on two members of the NYPD in Times Square this past January has taken a plea deal.
Darwin Andres Gomez-Izquiel, 19, pleaded guilty in Manhattan Criminal Court Monday to assault in the second degree, a class D felony, and was sentenced to 364 days in jail, according to a spokesman for the Manhattan D.A.’s office.