These 4 retailers will open in The Boulevard by spring
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
Posted Jan 14, 2021 Following the launch of ShopRite in The Boulevard in October, the next retailers slated to open in the newly built shopping center in New Dorp include LA Fitness, Ulta Beauty, Party City and Marshalls, according to the project’s developer. (Staten Island Advance/ Alexandra Salmieri)Alexandra Salmieri
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Following the launch of ShopRite in The Boulevard in October, the next retailers slated to open in the newly built shopping center in New Dorp include LA Fitness, Ulta Beauty, Party City and Marshalls, according to the project’s developer.
Staten Island COVID-19 vaccine appointments booked as state allows first responders, educators, seniors to get vaccinated
Updated Jan 11, 2021;
Posted Jan 11, 2021
Beacon Christian Community Health Center in Mariners Harbor is part of the city’s plan to vaccinate Staten Islanders for COVID-19. Jan. 11, 2020. (Staten Island Advance/ Alexandra Salmieri)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Open appointments for a coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine on Staten Island are scarce on Monday, the first day that first responders, education workers, public transit workers, public safety workers and residents aged 75 and older can begin getting vaccinated.
At least three of the borough’s vaccination hubs are no longer accepting appointments and many other web pages would not load, likely due to high volume, and there were long hold times at other locations.
Northwell Health, owner of SIUH, to rescind lawsuits filed against patients in 2020, will pause new filings
Updated Jan 06, 2021;
Posted Jan 06, 2021
Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze is shown in this file photo. (Staten Island Advance/ Jan Somma-Hammel)Staff-Shot
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Northwell Health, New York’s largest hospital system and the owner of Staten Island University Hospital (SIUH), said Tuesday it would rescind medical debt lawsuits filed against patients in 2020 and will institute a pause of new filings, following a news report about thousands of such suits.
According to online court records accessed Tuesday, attorneys filed at least 70 of those more-than 2,500 lawsuits which were first reported by the New York Times on behalf of SIUH.
Good riddance, 2020. Here’s what I’m looking forward to in 2021 (opinion)
Updated Jan 01, 2021;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Thank God that 2020 is over, right? We’ve all had enough of the cursed year that brought coronavirus into our lives.
Frankly, I’ve been sick of hearing about and talking about COVID-19 for months now. It’s been a “Groundhog Day” movie that I can’t escape from. Groundhog Day movie staring Bill Murray. (Photo courtesy of Moviefone)
That doesn’t mean that I don’t take the deadly global pandemic seriously. I do. I know we have an ongoing situation on our hands.