Staten-Island News

Here's a story that I think most area residents can file under "No shit." Still, while we knew the truth through our own experience, there's now some data that proves Brooklyn has some of the city's most reckless drivers.

The city's attempt to rectify a heating complaint at a Huguenot home met with disastrous results, a lawsuit alleges.

Although the season of the cicadas is coming to an end, these crusty critters made a lasting first impression on an young out-of-town visitor to Staten Island.

From Snug Harbor Cultural Center to St. George and West Brighton, it was a night of mayoral politics on Staten Island on Tuesday, with four City Hall hopefuls touching down in the borough.

Work crews are preparing to repave two stretches of Hylan Boulevard between Oakwood and Great Kills, as a $6 million project to reconfigure four intersections on the street draws to a close.

When the city came knocking in late April -- with a petite, brown trash can to be set at the curb every week, an oversized pail for kitchen scraps and instructions on how to recycle organic material -- Chris Silva signed up.

The girlfriend of a slain mob-connected restaurateur has racked up her third drunken driving arrest in the five years since his death, this time crashing her car in the same cemetery where he's entombed, according to authorities.

A stare-down in South Beach Monday afternoon ended with a 17-year-old stabbed six times, and his 18-year-old assailant behind bars, according to authorities.

If you're heading down to Disney World at the end of the month and plan on staying into the month of July, watch for a mega-event on Main Street USA, at which time 150 dance students - who attend Mrs. Rosemary's Dance Studio - will sashay and strut their stuff down in the "Land of Make-Believe."

New hurricane evacuation maps mean an additional 600,000 New Yorkers could be subject to leaving home the next time a massive storm barrels down on the city.

Borough President James P. Molinaro had a "tremendous salad" Monday night, after returning home from work at about 11 p.m. Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott also had a salad with homemade dressing and a piece of grilled chicken for dinner last night, after enjoying a salad fur lunch.

The lowest gas price on Staten Island over the last 24 hours is $3.70 for a gallon of regular unleaded.

Regular exercise and healthy eating -- as encouraged in the Staten Island Slim Down community fitness challenge -- are the keys to preventing type 2 diabetes.

They swooped in like vultures over just a few weeks, stealing brand new copper pipes, or sometimes contractor's tools, from homeowners struggling to make their houses livable after Hurricane Sandy.

Brooklyn traffic was snarled in the vicinity of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge late Monday night when a motorcycle caught fire and generated a big police response.

Two shootings four miles apart capped a weekend of gun violence on the borough's North Shore, leaving a 28-year-old waitress and a 29-year-old reputed gang leader wounded in separate incidents early Monday morning, Marisela Vazquez, 28, was headed back from her job at a Port Richmond pool hall about 4:30 a.m. when she found two men waiting outside ... (more)

The four senators of the Independent Democratic Conference just huddled with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, defending their legislative tactics as the governor himself joined a pile of advocates who have criticized them for not securing floor votes on progressive priorities including abortion.

An eviction at an Elm Park apartment erupted into a melee that sent two tenants to the hospital and resulted in the arrests of three people, including the 70-year-old landlord and his wife, said authorities.

Police seek the public's help in finding a man wanted for questioning in connection with an attempted grand larceny incident last month in Great Kills.

Staten Island tennis players said that there's very few playable public courts in the borough, because most of them have large cracks in the playing surface.