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New York Magazine reports that Matthew Barney gave a rare live performance in a warehouse in Long Island City last week.

Kate Taylor went to Long Island City last night to see the Vanessa Beecroft installation at Deitch Projects:

Polish artist Pawel Althamer, who in April closed his exuberant, expansive installation, performance, and sculpture show at the New Museum, to which museum visitors were invited to contribute, took his roving party to Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City last Friday night to mark the... Read More

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At last week's Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program graduation at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, N.Y., and again this week at the White House's United State of Women Summit, Buffett offered his number - one tip for business success.

While Staten Island is the city's least populous borough, its population has grown steadily and rapidly, more than doubling in the last half - century to close to one - half million residents.

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.

«We had harmonious life between Christians and Muslims till January last year when the trouble started,» said the woman from Ambon - the islands» biggest city.

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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.

I wonder what is going on with the investigation that made the papers last year regarding his home on city island?

Despite repeated promises by the New York City Correction Department to tighten security at Rikers Island, an investigator posing as a guard last month was able to smuggle in heroin, pills, marijuana, vodka and a razor blade, a city inquiry foCity Correction Department to tighten security at Rikers Island, an investigator posing as a guard last month was able to smuggle in heroin, pills, marijuana, vodka and a razor blade, a city inquiry focity inquiry found.

Staten Island is long considered the last bastion of the GOP in the city.

In 2011, Brian passed legislation and negotiated a deal between the State and the City to create $ 200 million worth of new parkland and open space on Manhattan's East Side, including a mile - long esplanade from East 60th Street south to 38th Street, which will close the last major gap in the greenway circling the island.

ALBANY - Nicole Malliotakis, the Staten Island Republican assemblywoman who lost her City Hall bid last November to Mayor de Blasio, is endorsing Dutchess County Executive Marcus Molinaro for governor.

Last I heard there was a popular railroad that ran from Long Island to the city which many people use to commute.

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.

If Ryan Cronin really wants to talk about taxpayer money we can certainly do that — starting with the 124 different tax increases his New York City Democrat cronies approved the last time they were in the majority, including the job - killing MTA payroll tax and elimination of the STAR rebate checks for seniors and homeowners who live on Long Island.»

-- «Sam Chang planning a 324 - key LIC hotel,» by The Real Deal's Christian Bautista: «Sam Chang is proposing a 324 - key hotel at 38 - 39 9th Street, just a block away from another Long Island City property the hotelier acquired last year.

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.

Geraldine Ferraro (c.) is presented with a plaque by U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (r.) during the renaming of the post office in Long Island City for Ferraro last year as former U.S. Rep. Barbara Kennelly looks on.

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.

Last year, 1,374 died from overdoses in the city alone, a 46 percent increase from 2015, with Staten Island and The Bronx hit the hardest.

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.

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.

Republican Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis of Staten Island is wading into the city's mayoral race, launching a campaign committee last week as she makes a final decision about a run.

The state - run ESD originally planned to fund its Kingsbridge commitment with money from the Transformative Investment Fund, a $ 400 million budgetary pool created by former State Sen. Dean Skelos last year to support projects, which senators would help pick, that «create or retain jobs» in New York City and on Long Island.

«The real answer to improving the roads on Staten Island and across the city is doing what we have been calling for these last several months and that is a commitment from the administration to pave 1,300 lane miles annually for the remaining three years of our terms,» said Oddo.

Mr. Seabrook, the union leader who has been a proud obstacle to plenty of the reform efforts aimed at Rikers Island by Mr. de Blasio over the last several years — he filed court documents to try to stop a new use of force policy and has held City Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates neaCity Hall press conferences decrying the mayor's policies and telling him to «shape up or ship out» — pointed to something that would probably be an even larger obstacle to closing down the city's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates neacity's controversial jail complex: resistance from residential neighborhoods who don't want inmates nearby.

In her State of the City speech last week, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced plans for a commission to study ways to shrink the population at Rikers Island — with the end goal of making the «dream» of closing down the city's jail compound a realCity speech last week, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced plans for a commission to study ways to shrink the population at Rikers Island — with the end goal of making the «dream» of closing down the city's jail compound a realcity's jail compound a reality.

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.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Simmering Republican Party tensions over the Mid-Island City Council primary and last year's South Shore Assembly race have burst into the open, with City Councilman James Oddo saying he and borough GOP chair Robert Scamardella haven't spoken since August.

The city last studied adverse health issues for Staten Island residents near Fresh Kills in 1997, but its sample size was small and it was before 9/11, Borelli said.

City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer (D - Sunnyside) hosted a town hall meeting with representatives of the MTA last week about extensive renovation to the No. 7 line that will mean some Long Island City stops will be out of order for 11 straight weekends.

City Board of Elections (BOE) commissioners last week ruled, 7 - 2, that Tabacco did not have enough valid signatures to get into an Independence primary against McMahon (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn), who is backed by the party.

While hate crimes have increased in New York City and across the nation, police statistics show they declined last year on Long Island.

Mayor de Blasio is the city's only top elected New York official who has declined to reimburse taxpayers for his personal and political use of city vehicles — including an NYPD - helicopter trip to last month's presidential debate on Long Island, The Post has learned.

Last November, Pamela Harris became the first African - American to win a majority - white seat in New York City when she captured the Assembly district covering Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights and her native Coney Island.

The mayor also proposed an annual allotment of $ 18 million to add ambulance shifts and hire dozens of new dispatchers to improve response times for the city's ambulances, which lagged last year, especially on Staten Island and in Queens and the Bronx.

Staten Island Assemblywoman and GOP mayoral candidate Nicole Malliotakis told the Observer last night that she returned campaign contributions from Palestinian - American activist Linda Sarsour — and condemned the City University of New York's Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy for inviting the Women's March organizer to speak at its commencement next month.

We're still tracking results from last night's party primaries for key congressional races, including a pivotal contests on Long Island and in New York City.

The voices of local lawmakers, civic leaders and residents must have reverberated last week with officials at the State Liquor Authority (SLA) who rejected a second application by the owners of a Long Island City strip club for a liquor license.

The mayor is the city's only top elected New York official who has declined to reimburse taxpayers for his personal and political use of city vehicles — including an NYPD - helicopter trip to last month's presidential debate on Long Island.

Calling the idea offered by the speaker during her State of the City speech last week «interesting and intriguing,» Cuomo said the island jail was a dated facility, and that the smaller, more technically advanced jails that can be built today would be «more appropriate.»

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.

De Blasio, who has said his administration continues to put plans in place to decrease the population in Rikers Island and install several reforms at the jail, said the speaker's plan, first laid out during her State of the City address last week, lacked detail and reasonable options for housing the approximately 10,000 inmates currently detained at the troubled jail.

Two Republican Assemblymembers from Staten Island, Ron Castorina and Nicole Malliotakis, brought a lawsuit against de Blasio's administration late last year, when the city announced plans to destroy copies of underlying records, such as copies of passports or bank statements, that applicants submitted to prove their identities.

ESD officials last week encouraged Island officials, along with leaders from New York City and the Lower Hudson Valley, to «identify our best sites,» LIA president Kevin Law said.

Last August, the New York City Council approved the bill, which requires corrections officials to publish regular reports posted on the Department of Corrections website about who is in solitary confinement in city jails and at Rikers IslCity Council approved the bill, which requires corrections officials to publish regular reports posted on the Department of Corrections website about who is in solitary confinement in city jails and at Rikers Islcity jails and at Rikers Island.

Kamillah Hanks, a Staten Island native, launched a run against Debi Rose in the Democratic primary for her North Shore City Council seat last month.