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BACK SCRATCH: John Tabacco (left) says his campaign for a Staten Island CIty Council seat scored the nod of the state Independence Party after he agreed to lend $ 10,000 to Government Response Inc., a computer - services company run by Kristin Mackay, wife of party Chairman Frank MacKay (right).

A Staten Island City Council candidate is not happy that his opponent Debi Rose has joined in solidarity with NFL players by taking a knee.

It's a case involving Staten Island City Council member Debi Rose and the support she received from the WFP's for - profit arm, Data and Field Services.

But their fate largely rests on the stance of Staten Island City Council member Debi Rose, who has made a long list of demands to BFC Partners.

The seat was vacant following Joseph Borelli's (R) election to the Staten Island City Council in November 2015.

In February, Data and Field Services settled a lawsuit brought by Randy M. Mastro, a former deputy mayor who is now an election lawyer, that alleged that the Working Families Party had unfairly helped Deborah Rose, the winning candidate in a Staten Island City Council race.

The state's highest court in a ruling on Tuesday found that a special prosecutor can continue an investigation into whether the labor - backed Working Families Party broke election laws during a 2009 Staten Island city council race.

Not exact matches

The council amended the city's Lakefront Protection Ordinance to allow the sale of beer, wine and spirits on the island, which is controlled by the Chicago Park District.

For the first four months of this year, use of force by guards at Rikers Island that caused serious injury dropped 50 percent compared to the same period last year, and use of force causing any injury is down 17 percent, NYC Correction Commissioner Joseph Ponte testified to the City Council.

At 9:30 a.m., Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul will deliver remarks at the New York City Regional Economic Development Council, Brewster Building, 41 - 21 27th Street, Long Island City.

Ponte also told the NYC Council he didn't know city rules banned him from using his government car for jaunts out of state, wasn't alarmed about an underling potentially eavesdropping on investigators — and admitted he hasn't even read a key report on closing Rikers Island, the troubled jail complex he oversees.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced an agreement with the City Council to open or expand jails in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and The Bronx as part of a plan to phase out the troubled island - based jail in the East River.

Hundreds jammed the City Council chambers and spilled into adjoining hallways, including a slew of Long Island mayors, town officials, state and county legislators and others who will depend on Suozzi to bring federal money to local projects.

Congressman Daniel Donovan, the representative of the sole red beachhead in blue New York City, today backed one of his former staffers for a soon - to - be-vacant City Council seat that overlaps heavily with the Brooklyn end of Donovan's Staten Island - based turf.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Corey Johnson have announced an agreement to replace Rikers Island with a series of community - based jail facilities located near borough courthouses.

Brooklyn Reporter article on BP Adams supporting the City Council's resolution to landmark the Riegelmann Boardwalk in Coney Island.

The legislation would bolster what the council did in 2014, when it passed rules booting immigration agents from its outpost on Rikers Island, New York City's main jail complex, and restricted the city's cooperation with the federal governmCity's main jail complex, and restricted the city's cooperation with the federal governmcity's cooperation with the federal government.

«I was just so privileged to represent the folks of Staten Island and Brooklyn in Congress and in the City Council.

City Council Races 2017: Fighting Opioid Crisis Is Top Priority in Staten Island (Council District 49), via City Limits & WNYC

Also at 11 a.m., the Uniformed Firefighters Association endorses Kamillah Hanks, candidate for City Council District 49, Engine 158, Mariners Harbor, Staten Island.

The Council also proposes to create a major new event space outside St George's Hall, deliver a major new bus hub and a coach park for the city and construct four new bridges to link Salthouse Quay with Mann Island, opening up land for future development.

Others included Borough President Jimmy Oddo, NYS Senator Diane Savino, Assembly Members Michael Cusick (also the parade Grand Marshal), Ron Castorina and Matt Titone, City Council Members Steve Matteo and Debi Rose and Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon.

Borough President James Oddo, along with City Council members and the Staten Island Chamber of Commerce, announced a six - part plan to clean up Staten Island and get litter off the streets including bolstering the litter response team and having residents Tweet and Facebook about problem areas.

Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today he would finally bow to the urgings of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and countless left - wing activists and formulate a plan to shutter the Rikers Island detention complex over the next 10 years — although the crucial work of creating a new, diffuse jail system will fall upon his successor, regardless of whether the liberal Democrat wins re-election this fall.

Amalgamated Transit Union, ATU Local 726, ATU Local 1056, ATU Local 1179 ATU Local 1181 - 1061, American Council of Engineering Companies of New York Asian Americans for Equality, Center for Working Families, Citizens Committee for NYC, Common Cause / NY, Construction Industry Council, CUNY Institute for Urban Systems, DC 37, DC 37 Local 375B, DC37 Local 1655, Empire State Transportation Alliance, Environmental Defense Fund, General Contractors Association of New York, League of Women Voters of the City of NY, League of Women Voters of New York State, Long Island Contractors» Association, Inc. (LICA), MTA Coalition of Unions, National Conference of Firemen and Oilers, New York Building Congress, NY League of Conservation Voters, NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign, NYS Council of Machinists, NY State Legislative Conference Board, NYS Transportation Equity Alliance, PCAC to MTA, Pratt Center for Community Development, Regional Plan Association, Reinvent Albany, Teamsters Local 808, Transit Riders Action Committee, Transportation Alternatives, TWU Local 100, TWU Local 252, TWU Local2001, TWU Local 2054, Transport Workers International Union of America, Tri-State Transportation Campaign, UPROSE, We Act for Environmental Justice, Women's City Club.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito offered a curt retort today to two Staten Island Republicans preparing legal action against the city over its plan to flush municipal identification records and to shield undocumented immigrants from President - elect Donald Trump: «go ahead and sue us.»

The City Council largely concurred, and the Mayor's vision of a revamped Coney Island as year - round tourist destination will, like it or not, become reality.

Teamsters Local 237, a union that represents more than 30,000 government workers in the city and parts of Long Island, has thrown its support behind Heidi Harrison Chain, one of five Democratic candidates vying for Melinda Katz's (D - Forest Hills) Council seat.

Speaking at a City Hall press conference with fellow Staten Island Republican and Council Member Joe Borelli, Malliotakis pledged to appoint a commission within 60 days of taking office, with a goal of producing changes to the complex property tax system in the City that's widely viewed as uneven and inequitable.

I first met then - Councilwoman Letitia James in the fall of 2012 when the City Council organized volunteers to clean up and work in Staten Island and the Rockaways following Sandy.

Political peace ruled the shore, both East and South, of Staten Island this morning as mayoral candidate and Assembly Member Nicole Malliotakis and Council Member Joe Borelli held a cordial City Hall press conference.

She also connected with Staten Island Councilwoman Debi Rose — the first African - American from Staten Island elected to the Council — and former City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito offered a curt retort to two Staten Island Republicans preparing legal action against the city over its plan to flush municipal identification records and to shield undocumented immigrants from Trump: «Go ahead and sue us.»

At 2 p.m., NYC Council members, inmate advocates and former guards and inmates from the city's Rikers Island Correctional Facility discuss proposals for overhauling treatment of inmates at the jail; Urban Justice Center, 16th floor, 123 William St., Manhattan.

Detractors include Assemblyman David Weprin, who represents eastern Queens; City Council member Barry Grodenchik, for neighborhoods on the Long Island border; Thomas Grech, executive director of the Queens Chamber of Commerce; and assembly member (and former mayoral candidate) Nicole Malliotakis, repping south Brooklyn and Staten Island.

CITY HALL - City Council will vote momentarily to increase Staten Island Ferry service to at least every 30 minutes by May 1, 2015.

Before voting on all the matters facing the Council today, they'll all be discussed — including land use deals in Long Island City and Willet's Point and restaurant health inspection changes.

The commission was formed by Lippman at the request of City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, who proposed the possibility of closing Rikers Island during her State of the City speech last month.

It was among the least controversial measures before the Council today — which included two major land use projects, the creation of condos at the graffiti mecca 5Pointz in Long Island City and the creation of mixed use developments in blighted Willet's Point, Queens.

The Council has funded attorneys for unaccompanied minor immigrants who have flooded New York City's federal courts, passed the municipal identification card program dubbed IDNYC, and has kicked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers off of Rikers Island, where they had frequently issued detainer orders for undocumented immigrants who had served time accused of nonviolent crimes.

The City Council voted 46 - 0 Wednesday to increase Staten Island Ferry service to at least every half - hour, beginning with weekend evenings and then around the clock by May 1, 2015.

MANHATTAN, N.Y. — Criminal justice reforms were at the center of a sweeping agenda presented by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito on Wednesday that divided Staten Island's own members.

4 p.m. — The City Council is now voting on all the measures before them today, including the Staten Island Ferry bill.

STATEN ISLAND — Mayor Bill de Blasio set a special election for Nov. 3 to fill the City Council seat vacated by Vincent Ignizio, according to a proclamation filed on Monday.

The two typically work well together, a partnership stemming from their time together in the City Council, and it's a relationship that has benefited Staten Island.

QUEENS, NY — Queens Borough President Melinda Katz and Stop & Shop, with help from students of I.S. 93Q, today unloaded 1,000 Easter hams off an 18 - wheeler in front of Borough Hall, donated in time for preparations for the upcoming holiday to five local Queens organizations: Catholic Charities Queens North Community Center of Astoria, Chinese - American Planning Council's Nan Shan Senior Center of Flushing, Hour Children of Long Island City, Korean Community Services Senior Centers of Corona and Flushing, and Queensbridge / Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement Senior Center of Long Island City.

Council members said they had learned from a protracted court fight on Staten Island over the release of personal information related to the municipal identification card program; the city prevailed in State Supreme Court, although the decision has been appealed.

Mayor de Blasio's plan for closing Rikers Island says little about where new jails should be built — a decision he shrugged off on the City Council Thursday.

12:30 p.m. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has a pre-stated press conference about the Special Willets Point District in Queens, the «Five Pointz» development project in Long Island City, expansion of Memorial Sloan Kettering and CUNY on the Upper East Side, along with changes to the restaurant inspection system and Staten Island Ferry Service, in the Red Room of City Hall.

When Governor Cuomo double - dared the breakaways to show their hands in the Capitol, Silver, whose call the vote was, demanded that newly elected Rudy Giuliani and the City Council first submit a «home rule message» agreeing that the city wanted to shake loose its most Republican borough — knowing Rudy couldn't afford to lose the Island's tax base or its GOP voCity Council first submit a «home rule message» agreeing that the city wanted to shake loose its most Republican borough — knowing Rudy couldn't afford to lose the Island's tax base or its GOP vocity wanted to shake loose its most Republican borough — knowing Rudy couldn't afford to lose the Island's tax base or its GOP votes.