Tag: Staten Island (NYC)

A Staten Island St. Patrick’s Day Parade Welcomes L.G.B.T.Q. Marchers

This year, for the first time, every New York City borough will host a St. Patrick’s Day Parade that allows L.G.B.T.Q. groups, bringing a decades-long conflict to an end. That milestone will be celebrated on Sunday with a new parade on Staten Island, part of a deal brokered by Mayor Eric Adams. It’s the result […]

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F.B.I. Searches Homes of Fire Dept. Chiefs in Corruption Investigation

F.B.I. agents early Thursday searched the homes of two senior New York Fire Department chiefs responsible for overseeing safety inspections while city investigators also searched the chiefs’ offices at the agency’s headquarters in Brooklyn, people with knowledge of the matter said. The corruption investigation by the bureau, federal prosecutors in Manhattan and the city’s Department […]

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An Idealistic Cop, a Forbidden Ticket and a Police Career on the Brink

A red Mazda sped past a police officer’s unmarked car stationed at a tree-lined Staten Island intersection. The officer inside, Mathew Bianchi, clocked the Mazda at well over the limit and prepared to make a stop at a nearby streetlight. But the car blew through a red light. Bianchi turned on his siren. Behind the […]

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Large Fire Engulfs Industrial Building in Elizabeth, N.J.

Flames engulfed a large industrial building in Elizabeth, N.J., early Friday, leading it to partially collapse, a city official said, adding that no injuries were reported. The building, at 107 Trumbull Street, is in a complex that once housed the country’s first large Singer sewing machine factory, according to Bill O’Dea, a director of the […]

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Former N.Y.P.D. Officer Is Charged With Child Sex Offenses

A former New York City police officer was indicted in federal court in Brooklyn on Thursday on charges of coercing a boy to engage in sex and soliciting explicit sexual conversations and nude photographs from boys. The former officer, Christopher Terranova, 34, met one of his victims by using a Police Department database to obtain […]

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Marcel Hug, Catherine Debrunner of Switzerland Win Men’s, Women’s Wheelchair Races

Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner, both from Switzerland, won the men’s and women’s wheelchair races in the New York City Marathon on Sunday. Hug won a record sixth victory on New York’s course, while Debrunner set a course record in her debut in the race. Hug, whose nickname is the Silver Bullet, won his third […]

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Teen Charged With Murder in Stabbing of 13-Year-Old on Staten Island Bus

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of a 13-year-old on a city bus on Friday afternoon on Staten Island. The suspect, whom the police have not named, was also charged with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. He remained in custody on Saturday, the police said; it was […]

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13-Year-Old Boy Stabbed to Death on City Bus on Staten Island

A 13-year-old boy died after he was stabbed Friday afternoon on a city bus on Staten Island, and another teenager is suspected of killing him, the police said. The suspect, a 14-year-old boy, fled the bus and ran before a retired police sergeant apprehended him, the police said. The incident happened near Littlefield Avenue on […]

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Where the Migrants Who Came to New York Are Living Now

New York City has long been a magnet for new Americans. More than a third of its residents — over three million people — are immigrants. Before the pandemic interrupted migration patterns, the census tallied about 60,000 foreign-born people annually in the city who had been living abroad a year earlier. What’s different about the […]

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Judge Blocks Migrants From Former School, Questioning NYC’s Shelter Guarantee

A judge on Staten Island temporarily blocked New York City on Tuesday from using a former school as an emergency shelter for migrants, in a decision that could have broader implications for the city’s long-established obligation to offer shelter to anyone who asks for it. The city has struggled to provide housing to the more […]

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Vitriolic Anti-Migrant Protests Spread in an Unexpected Place: New York

The loudspeaker on a quiet Staten Island street blasted demands at 117 decibels, louder than a dog barking in your ear. Pointed at a school that is sheltering some of the 110,000 migrants who have arrived in New York City over the last year and a half, the message could not have been more unwelcoming: […]

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How Black Nurses Were Recruited to Staten Island to Fight a Deadly Disease

Virginia Allen, a poised 92-year-old with an elegant sweep of white hair and a nagging case of sciatica, remembers the first time she set foot on the sprawling green campus of Sea View Hospital three-quarters of a century ago. “I felt in awe of it,” she said of the complex, more than two dozen buildings […]

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