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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Queens Borough President Donovan Richards thinks Staten Island is not doing its fair share in the city’s migrant crisis, and that isn’t sitting well with at least one local elected official.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) fired back at Richards this week after the New York Post quoted him asking “What About Staten Island?” in relation to the distribution of migrant shelters.
CAPITOL HILL - A BILL THAT WOULD LEVY FINES ON TAX-EXEMPT SCHOOLS has advanced from the House Committee on Ways and Means, its Congressional sponsor Nicole Malliotakis (R-11) announced on Tuesday, July 9. Just before the July 4 federal holiday, Malliotakis introduced the bill as academic institutions across the nation have dealt with often violent anti-semitic protests.
Don’t tread on Staten Island.
Staten Island Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) on Monday slammed Queens Borough President Donovan Richards for suggesting that her borough hasn’t taken in its fair share of migrants.
A $2.5 million federal investment will help restore a long-shuttered St. George fishing pier and revitalize the borough’s North Shore, officials announced Monday.
Three southern Brooklyn representatives rallied Monday to urge the state’s Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) to deny the application for a proposed cannabis dispensary in Bay Ridge, after the local community board voted against it last week.
Republican Assembly Members Michael Tannousis and Alec Brook-Krasny, along with Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, led the June 24 rally outside the site of the proposed dispensary, the former Pilo Arts hair salon on Third Avenue. The location includes three storefronts.
Bay Ridge parents, pols and civic leaders are begging state regulators to reject a proposed cannabis shop near a slew of the Brooklyn neighborhood’s schools and houses of worship.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-Staten Island/South Brooklyn) met with Dalai Lama this week at his residence in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh, India, while traveling on a bipartisan congressional delegation.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Elected officials and community leaders gathered in Port Richmond Monday to speak out against the city’s latest plan to shelter migrants in a house of worship.
Borough President Vito Fossella, Councilwoman Kamillah Hanks (D-North Shore), Councilman David Carr (R-Mid-Island), and James Smith, of the Port Richmond North Shore Alliance civic group, led the press conference against the planned shelter for 15 men at Faith United Methodist Church at the corner of Heberton and Castleton avenues starting Tuesday.
Dr. Fauci’s wasteful spending on cruel animal testing was front and center recently as Congress grilled him on the COVID-era catastrophes he caused, from risky gain-of-function research to BeagleGate.