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Sometimes government bureaucracy can even affect those serving our city and nation. Our office successfully intervened to expedite the renewal applications of two constituents serving as workers on the Staten Island Ferry. These city employees would not have been able to retain their employment with the NYC Department of Transportation if we did not step in so they could get renewed documents approved in a timely manner by the U.S. Coast Guard.
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, NY) - Today, Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis was joined bipartisan group of Staten Island elected officials, representatives of the U.S. Army Corps, New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYCDEP), and New York City Parks to commemorate the 12th anniversary of Hurricane Sandy and deliver progress updates regarding the first phase of Staten Island's East Shore Seawall project.
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, NY) - Today, Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis was joined by a bipartisan group of local elected officials to call on the U.S. Department of Education to hold New York City accountable for violating federal law by failing to provide non-public school students with developmental disabilities the Individualized Education Services Program (IESP) accommodations they are entitled to under the 1975 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
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).
(STATEN ISLAND, NY) - Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis today released the following statement after the individual responsible for vandalizing the Great Kills Post Office boxes was arrested:
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.
Our office recently helped a constituent redeposit two Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments to the proper account after two payments of $1,886 and $23,369 had been made to the incorrect institution.
After our office intervened, the total SSI payment of $25,255 was sent to the correct account and the constituent was made whole!