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City politicians past and present have come out in support of renaming the Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City after former Mayor Ed Koch, but City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria) said the bridge's current name is too significant to be changed.

-LSB-...] Koch Bridge rename no hit with ValloneQueens CampaignerPhoto by Christina Santucci City politicians past and present have come out in support of renaming the Queensboro Bridge in Long Island City after former Mayor Ed Koch, but City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. (D - Astoria) said the bridge's current name is... -LSB-...]

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«It smells like New York City water, it tasted like New York City water,» says LaCola on «Staten Island Hustle» after a sip.

After affiliating with medical groups on Long Island and in New York City, ProHealth Dental is expanding into New Jersey.

Jungle Island plans to present a plan for a 13 - story family - friendly hotel to the Miami City Commission on May 24, after another hotel plan failed last year.

Shortly after, in 1885 the United States built their first incinerator on Governors Island in New York City.

The Riverdale School in Long Island City is some seriously hot water after one of their students, 14 - year - old Avonte Oquendo, ran off of campus in the middle of the school day.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is undertaking one of the biggest challenges of his year - old mayoralty after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.

Long Island's 13 towns and two cities spent a total of $ 725 million on payrolls in 2014 — a 3.5 percent increase from 2013 — as the total number of employees grew slightly after years of decline, a Newsday analysis shows.

Staten Island Sen. Diane Savino knocked the decision by businessman Joe Ricketts to shuttering the local news sites in New York City that he owned just days after its staff voted to unionize.

The Staten Island Ferry engineer who fell asleep in the control room as the boat was docking will get his job back, plus about $ 20,000 in unearned overtime, after a judge overruled city officials who wanted him demoted.

Water's Edge in Long Island City closes after employees walked out complaining they hadn't been paid.

After being asked if he supported closing Rikers Island, Dietl said the city has to «fix what we got,» and added that he and de Blasio should stay in the jail complex.

The need for a study arose after the county began examining New York City's plan to reopen 23 of its shuttered Queens wells that dip into the aquifer system under geographic Long Island during its upstate aqueduct - repair project, Martins said.

De Blasio has also suffered from a series of recent mini-scandals, including questions about a six - figure city job given to the partner of one of his top aides and backlash after he was at the gym as a bloody standoff unfolded in Staten Island last week.

Two months after she proposed the plan, the Long Island Rail Road has agreed to City Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley's (D - Middle Village) request to let the community turn a dilapidated newsstand in Ridgewood into open space for the community.

The mayor called for tougher penalties under the city's right of way law after a Staten Island woman was fined just $ 250 for running down a pedestrian in a crosswalk, killing her.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio slammed Trump on Twitter as «pathetic» a day after the president used the same word to take a veiled swipe at him while speaking to law enforcement on Long Island.

Dan Donovan, 53, a career prosecutor in New York City's borough of Staten Island, told Reuters on Wednesday he was prompted to run after endless corruption scandals in Albany.

The latest version had a three - tiered phase - in, with New York City hitting the mark first in three years, Long Island and Westchester County after six and upstate after about eight years, according to rank - and - file legislators.

Mark - Viverito's call for Ponte to quit came after an investigation last month by the city's anti-graft watchdog agency found that he had been out of town for a quarter of 2016 as violence and corruption plagued the Rikers Island jail complex.

Last year, city schools stopped using words like «overweight» on the Fitnessgram reports after The Post revealed that skinny - as - a-rail student Gwendolyn Williams from Staten Island was given that designation.

The plan the mayor outlined aims to reduce the jail population to 5,000 after a decade, which he said would allow the city to relocate all inmates from its famous — and infamous — incarceration island.

DONGAN HILLS — A sports field opposite NYCHA's Berry Houses could get a multi-million dollar overhaul after Staten Island politicians asked the city to fully fund the upgrades.

U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D - Astoria), who helped rename the Long Island City post office after Ferraro in August and was a convention delegate back in 1984, recalled watching Ferraro address the convention floor and the American people as she broke barriers.

«Avonte's Law» is named after Avonte Oquendo, the 14 - year - old boy with autism who disappeared from his Long Island City school Oct. 4.

More broadly, the push for grand jury reform began last year, after a Staten Island grand jury declined to indict a New York City police officer in the choke hold death of an unarmed black man, Eric Garner.

The city also caused a stir in the borough last month after the Parks Department captured a deer in Brooklyn and set it free on Staten Island.

Clinton cited recent incidents of unarmed black men around the country being killed by police such as Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Tamir Rice in Cleveland and Garner, who she said was «choked to death after being stopped for selling cigarettes on the streets of our city,» in Staten Island.

The drive to rename the bridge — known across the East River as the 59th Street Bridge because it connects 59th Street in Manhattan with Queens Plaza in Long Island City — after the city's 105th mayor began with its current City — after the city's 105th mayor began with its current city's 105th mayor began with its current one.

«Staten Island is a borough that has a very high percentage of home ownership,» Borough President James Oddo, a Republican, said after de Blasio's second State of the City address.

In 2017 Erie County was proud to join the Hispanic Heritage Council of WNY, the City of Buffalo and others in a local relief effort for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria devastated the island.

Long Island City and Astoria begin to recover after widespread flooding during Hurricane Sandy.

Mayor de Blasio called for tougher penalties under the city's right of way law after a Staten Island woman was fined just $ 250 for running down a pedestrian in a crosswalk, killing her.

Political fixer, Harold Ickes, gave the re-election campaign committee of his pal, Mayor Bill de Blasio $ 19,250 in bundled contributions after his client A.E.G. Live won city permit to hold a music festival on Randall's Island.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo took the first flight allowed to land after Hurricane Maria slammed Puerto Rico last week, and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito joined city workers this weekend to aid relief on the island where her own mother liCity Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito joined city workers this weekend to aid relief on the island where her own mother licity workers this weekend to aid relief on the island where her own mother lives.

A deaf Staten Island landlady won a $ 750,000 settlement from the city after claiming she was falsely arrested by NYPD cops who refused to get her a sign - language interpreter while...

«I think I speak for all New Yorkers when I give the world's biggest eye roll after hearing this news,» said City Councilman Joe Borelli, a Staten Island Republican.

City taxpayers will shell out $ 3.8 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of an inmate who died when Rikers Island correction officers failed to get help after...

A town - hall style meeting was held Monday night about the future of Rikers Island after some high - profile calls to shut down the city jail complex.

Under the latest proposal, sources say New York City would see a $ 15 wage after three years, the neighboring suburban counties, including those on Long Island and Westchester, would see $ 15 after four years and upstate New York would get an increase to $ 13 or another number less than 15.

A Manhattan judge blocked the NYC Civilian Complaint Review Board's attempt to get confidential files on the city's $ 6 million settlement to the family of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who died after he was put in a chokehold by cops.

Though they may not always see eye - to - eye, Ignizio and other Staten Island elected officials have continued to praise the city's progress on recovery and resiliency after Hurricane Sandy.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has reportedly backed out of a fund - raiser for Congressman Michael McMahon after he voted against the health care reform bill last week.

When Eric Garner, a black Staten Island man, died in July after police placed him in a chokehold, Ms. James — now the highest - ranked African - American elected official in the city — did not lead the charge of critics decrying the alleged police brutality.

MIDLAND BEACH — Two years after Hurricane Sandy ripped through New York, devastating Staten Island and other waterfront areas, Mayor Bill de Blasio stood with other elected officials to tout the progress on recovery work around the city.

The advocates rallied outside City Hall as Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Bratton held a round - table with Staten Island community leaders and Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss the fallout of the death of Eric Garner, shortly after an NYPD officer apparently put him in a prohibited chokehold.

The NYPD chief skipped the event to stay in the city to deal with an investigation after Staten Island dad Eric Garner died Thursday night after being held in a choke hold by a cop.

Lawyer, lobbyist and political fixer, Harold Ickes, gave the re-election campaign committee of his pal, Mayor Bill de Blasio $ 19,250 in bundled contributions after his client A.E.G. Live won city permission to hold a music festival on Randall's Island, the NY Times reported.

ST. GEORGE — After years of delays, the city broke ground a second time on Staten Island's first Family Justice Center.