Who’s stealing tools from work vans? Burglary spree hurting utility businesses in pandemic
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
Posted Feb 17, 2021
The center console of one of Qasim Mohmood’s work trucks was ripped out as part of a borough-wide burglary spree. (Photo courtesy of Qasim Mohmood)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Qasim Mohmood has been living in Meiers Corners since 2005 and never had to worry about locking his car. Then, on Jan. 10, a pair of work trucks in his driveway were burglarized as part of a borough-wide pattern that has spread from the North to the South shores of Staten Island.
Murder, mayhem and parole: 7 notorious Staten Island inmates seek freedom this year
Updated Jan 11, 2021;
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Will 2021 be the year some of the most notorious inmates from Staten Island get sprung from prison?
Seven of those individuals are scheduled to appear before a state parole board over the next 12 months. Five of them are serving life sentences for murder.
Their victims run the gamut from one man’s 3-year-old daughter to another’s handicapped fiancée.
One killer had met his victim in a bar.
Another was just 17 when he brutally killed a neighbor and her parents over a half-century ago.
‘She saved my life’: Staten Island neighbors meet up every day, rain or shine, to survive pandemic together
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. In the little neighborhood of Village Greens in Arden Heights, sheltering in place for months on end gave way to some great friendships.
One day, in the beginning of the pandemic, in late March, after sitting inside for weeks, Roz Kurland said, “I’m going outside to sit on the bench.”
She did. Her other neighbor, Maureen Dubison, who has lived there for 46 years to her 47, said, “I’ll bring over a chair.” They both came from Brooklyn directly to Village Greens.