Police Search For 2 Suspects In Staten Island Cab Robbery
Police on Tuesday were searching for a man and woman who allegedly committed a robbery in a cab on Staten Island earlier this month.
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Police on Tuesday were searching for a man and woman who allegedly committed a robbery in a cab on Staten Island earlier this month.
On Tuesday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg toured the site at Crescent Beach on Tuesday where the 2,000 foot long berm is going in.
Hit hard by Superstorm Sandy a year ago, the Oakwood Beach neighborhood of Staten Island has become the first officially to give up on rebuilding.
Volunteers for her group, Feeding Family, are growing vegetables for meals at community gardens and cooking meals for 600 families a week.
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton joined volunteers in the Rockaways and on Staten Island to help with renewal efforts a year after Superstorm Sandy.
The flooding from superstorm Sandy practically washed one Staten Island neighborhood off the map, and that has many residents anxious to leave for good.
The city has named the initiative "Close to Home," but residents in Willowbrook, Staten Island neighborhood say the facility really is too close to home.
With Staten Island deer sightings on the rise, officials plan to start keeping track of animals from the sky.
Trains with open space rather than doors between cars, dedicated busways, and new "smart chip" systems to replace the current MetroCard system were among the ideas floated in a recent report outlining the needs of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in the 20 years to come.
Dongan Hills resident Barbara Laing said about 60 turkeys call her maple tree home, and her family keeps busy cleaning up after them.
A fan who credits a Jets game with alerting her to what turned out to be breast cancer served as an honorary captain for the Jets' game against the Pittsburgh Steelers this weekend.
A somber mass was held Sunday at a Staten Island church where a suspicious fire was being treated as a hate crime this weekend.
About 9,000 runners were pounding the pavement in Staten Island on Sunday.
Authorities say a 45-year-old nun jumped from a second-floor window to escape a suspicious fire at a Staten Island convent.
A fundraiser was under way Saturday on Staten Island to benefit a severely wounded green beret.
The suspect in the August robberies has been identified as Anthony McGee.
It was a tragic accident on Staten Island. A middle-aged pedestrian was killed and the driver of the SUV that allegedly hit him is an off-duty police officer.
The MTA said a host of issues including the cost, high winds and the weight of the suspension cables would all need to be a part of a feasibility study which would not begin until next year or later.
The Staten Island Advance reports that the birds will be transported upstate by the same U.S. Department of Agriculture unit that rounded up some of their brethren and sent them to a slaughterhouse last month.
Omar Duran, 54, was arrested Wednesday on charges of placing a false bomb, criminal possession of weapon and reckless endangerment.
The latest device was found in Grymes Hill on Saturday -- what police called a realistic looking bomb found in a backpack, along with a note, a name and an address.
Staff Sgt. Michael Ollis stepped into the path of the Polish soldier and blocked him from the blast of an insurgent's suicide vest, according to a report in the Army Times.
The NYPD Bomb Squad has been busy investigating a series of elaborate bomb scares on Staten Island.
Police on Monday were asking for assistance from the public in finding a suspect in a sexual assault last week on Staten Island.
The 625-foot Ferris wheel would have a view of the Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor and the Manhattan skyline.
