Mon June 14, 2021 - Northeast Edition
Staten Island Advance/SILive.com
Sandbags meant to protect Tottenville s coastal neighborhoods are shown to be in disrepair on June 2, 2021. (Staten Island Advance/Paul Liotta)
A project intended to protect Staten Island s South Shore coastal communities has been given the go ahead to begin construction this fall after years of delays.
The state-run rejuvenation of the area, known as Living Breakwaters, was funded and set to begin construction in 2018, according to a 2017 report from the Staten Island Advance/SILive.com, but the project laid dormant after that.
A spokesperson of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR), which is overseeing the project, emailed a statement to the Staten Island news outlet announcing that the agency had executed a contract with Weeks Marine, based in Cranford, N.J., and that it expected the project to be complete by 2024.
Party-backed Dem BP candidate’s slogan is ‘racist’ and ‘xenophobic,’ primary opponents say
Updated May 18, 2021;
Posted May 18, 2021
Borough president candidate Lorie Honor addresses a crowd outside Borough Hall in St. George as her opponents (from left) Cesar Vargas, Brandon Stradford, and Radhakrishna Mohan look on Tuesday, May 18, 2021. The four held a joint press conference to criticize their party-backed Democratic opponent Mark Murphy. (Staten Island Advance/Paul Liotta)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Staten Island First? Not so fast, four Democratic candidates running for Borough President said Tuesday.
Lorie Honor, Radhikrishna Mohan, Brandon Stradford and Cesar Vargas held a joint press conference on the steps of Borough Hall in St. George around 12 p.m. to criticize their opponent Mark Murphy’s creation of a third-party line called “Staten Island First.”
Man arrested in fatal shooting on Victory Blvd. in Dec.; victim, 22, was walking to grab sandwich, mom said
Updated 1:24 PM;
Today 10:48 AM
Joseph Evans, a resident of Tompkinsville, was walking to a nearby deli to pick up a sandwich when he was suddenly shot in the arm, back and head, according to police and his family. (Family photo)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Police arrested a man in connection with a fatal shooting last December on a bustling commercial strip in Tompkinsville.
Brandon Rivera, 28, of the 400 block of Van Duzer Street, was apprehended on Monday in connection with the death of Joseph Evans, 22.