Staten-Island News

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.

As the weather conditions for another Eastern Seaboard hurricane season slowly begin to form in the waters of the Pacific Ocean and elsewhere in the south, northeastern municipal officials are thinking about how best to protect their communities.

Church in Dongan Hills, Cardinal Timothy Dolan had some bad news for ailing parishes as he acknowledged that church closings are on the table as part of the Archdiocese of New York's, "Making All Things New," initiative.

Republican mayoral hopeful Joe Lhota is poised to accept an endorsement from Rep. Michael Grimm at an event Monday morning, the candidate's camp announced Sunday night.

The new Sandy Resource center will be helping victims of the storm. Beverly Neuhaus, director of the Richmond Senior services, spearheaded the effort.

Five people, including a 14-year-old boy, were shot in three boroughs within a 21-minute span Saturday night, police sources said.

With the city's 5.6 percent increase on water and sewer rates going into effect on July 1, the price for metered water has almost doubled in less than a decade.

Patricia Amis, 44, grew up in public housing in Stapleton. After graduating Wagner College and becoming a licensed social worker, she has made it her mission to help victims of domestic violence.

The country's oldest continuous Fourth of July parade will kick off in less than a month, and as usual, it promises to retain its traditional, small town pride of place.

Rodney Stilwell kept to his mental and physical plan in the second round of the Staten Island Classic Saturday, shooting a 2-under-par 70 at LaTourette to widen the margin between himself and the field.