Friends, family urge local businesswoman to keep fighting after disturbing crash
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Friends and family gathered in Historic Richmondtown Tuesday night to urge the victim of a horrific car crash to continue fighting.
A Facebook stream of the candlelight vigil allowed Diana Petrone to be part of the ceremony from her hospital bed at Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze, where she’s been since the crash occurred Dec. 12 in New Springville.
Billy Contreras, a friend of Petrone’s and president of the Bikers Against Child Abuse (BACA) organization to which she belongs, said about 10 minutes before the vigil started that they received good news Petrone may have had movement below her neck for the first time since entering the hospital.
Woman taken away in ambulance following pedestrian crash in Rosebank
Updated Dec 23, 2020;
Posted Dec 23, 2020
A pedestrian reportedly was hit by a vehicle on Bay Street near Hylan Boulevard in Rosebank on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. A senior woman was taken away by ambulance following a reported pedestrian crash in Rosebank on Wednesday morning.
The crash was reported at about 10:35 a.m. on the 1100 block of Bay Street near Hylan Boulevard.
One patient was transported to Staten Island University Hospital in Ocean Breeze, according to a spokesman for the FDNY/EMS.
The woman appeared to be conscious when she left the location via an FDNY ambulance.
Mayor, officials hope by mid-2021 there will be a COVID vaccine for ‘anyone who wants it’ in NYC
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
Mayor Bill de Blasio holds a media availability at City Hall on Monday, December 14, 2020. (Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. City officials said Tuesday that they hope for COVID-19 vaccines to be widely available by the middle of next year.
Mayor Bill de Blasio and Dr. Dave Chokshi, the city’s health commissioner, said during a morning press briefing that the early focus will be on front line healthcare workers along with nursing home staff and patients, in accordance with state guidelines.
Monday’s COVID-19 data: Hospitalizations increase slightly, new cases continue to climb
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. While the first doses of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine were administered Monday on Staten Island, new cases and hospitalizations once again climbed on the borough as the country’s death toll surpassed 300,000.
There were 235 new cases reported since Sunday, according to city Health Department data, after 277 positive tests were tallied between Saturday and Sunday.
In total, 25,350 borough residents have tested positive for the virus, the data shows.
As of 1 p.m. Monday, 1,188 borough residents are believed to have succumbed to the disease, which represented a drop of two from yesterday’s total when seven new deaths were initially considered “probable.”
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