Sentences with phrase «left staten»

TIMES SQUARE — When she heard about the confrontation with police that left Staten Island man Eric Garner dead, Constance Malcolm, mother of Ramarley Graham, the unarmed Bronx teen fatally shot in his own home by NYPD Officer Richard Haste in 2012, says she couldn't watch the viral video of the incident.

His departure left Staten Island state Assembly member Nicole Malliotakis as the leading GOP contender and also freed up Massey's endorsement from the Independence Party.

Some had left their Staten Island and Queens homes as early as 4 a.m. to make departure on time, others had taken the day off work or school, all were there for the same reason: to meet with state lawmakers and convince them to modernize New York's antiquated election laws.

An attorney, he also did pro bono on a lawsuit to force Gov. Andrew Cuomo to set a special election for the congressional race last May after the resignation of Rep. Michael Grimm left Staten Islanders without a congressman.

But it's also starting relatively early given the surprise announcement by Paul Massey he would not continue on with his bid for the Republican nomination, leaving the Staten Island assemblywoman the likely nominee.

«People on Staten Island don't ever want to leave Staten Island for any reason ever, for anything, nonetheless to go live somewhere else in their golden years,» Quinn said.

If Mr. Cuomo leaves the Staten Island DA position unfilled, the role of acting district attorney would fall to the office's top prosecutor, Dan Master, until the end of the year.

His resignation leaves Staten Island without representation as the new Congress is sworn in Tuesday, just two months after Grimm was handily re-elected even while under indictment.

Bryan John Ellicott, a 27 - year - old bisexual trans man from Staten Island, was honored for his scrappy activism, including suing the city Parks Department when he was forced to leave a Staten Island public pool for changing in the men's locker room, and fighting the tampon tax and anti-choice politicians.

Not exact matches

He was the only Democrat to release a statement in response to Staten Island DA Dan Donovan's campaign announcement yesterday, in which he accused the Republican prosecutor of lacking sufficient experience to take up where Cuomo will leave off in January.

Eight people have filed a lawsuit against Cuomo, arguing his failure to set a special election date to fill the congressional vacancy left by former Rep. Michael Grimm violates the constitutional rights of residents of Staten Island and of southern Brooklyn.

At this point, Sen. Diane Savino, a Staten Island Democrat who was presiding from the dais, interjected: «I would just remind the members of the house that we should try and leave personal invective out of the debate.»

After more than a decade in office, Staten Island Democratic Assemblyman Matthew Titone is leaving his North Shore seat to run for Surrogate's Court.

She arraigned on charges of reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, reckless endangerment, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and leaving the scene of an incident, the Staten Island District Attorney's office said.

«Vinnie Gentile couldn't raise enough money to buy all of the four - leaf clovers and lucky rabbits feet to help him win this race,» one Staten Island Democratic operative told the Observer.

«The middle class is leaving in leaps and bounds,» said Republican Sen. Andrew Lanza of Staten Island.

While the hyper - liberal approach the Schneiderman campaign has adopted might be a risky strategy — particularly when it comes to winning the support of Cuomo, who is clearly concerned the senator's left - of - center ideology will hurt him in the general election against Staten Island DA Dan Donovan — it is one that is being expertly executed.

I reached out to Staten Island GOP chairman John Friscia, who said that there were complaints from supporters of each side about the other, along with some other races, and so they left the top of the ticket blank.

Lavelle is also a member of the executive board of the left - leaning Staten Island Democratic Association club.

«As a Staten Islander, I'm tired of being left out whenever new and exciting transportation announcements are made.

NYC Mayor de Blasio spent two hours at a Brooklyn YMCA this morning, leaving his police and fire commissioners to deal with a Staten Island standoff in which a gunman shot a city firefighter.

(He didn't say which one, although as I noted earlier today, Staten Island DA Dan Donovan's campaign has left the door open to running for AG on a third line in November).

But on the big - ticket stuff, Staten Island is slowly but surely being left behind.

SOUTH BEACH — The Staten Island Democratic Party picked Brooklyn City Councilman Vincent Gentile to run for the congressional seat left vacant by former U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm.

More recently, he helped Mr. McMahon handily dispatch Republican Joan Illuzzi to fill the Staten Island district attorney's seat that Mr. Donovan left empty last year.

Meanwhile, Bay Ridge - Staten Island Republican - Conservative Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis says she will not enter the race (if Grimm leaves the ballot) «because we already have a congressman.»

A yearslong investigation into the Working Families Party, the influential left - leaning group that helped fuel the rise of Mayor Bill de Blasio, has resulted in the indictments of two former aides to a Staten Island city councilwoman.

STATEN ISLAND — Councilman Vincent Ignizio, who announced he would step down in May to run a non-profit, will officially leave his post on Friday, the Staten Island Advance reported.

Thirty - five people showed up at the Hilton Garden Inn on Staten Island to hear Carl Paladino insist he's not leaving the governor's race.

NYPD officers got into a shootout with two men on Staten Island early Thursday, leaving one of the suspects wounded.

Lisa Percoco had left her New York City teaching job when they moved from Staten Island; she was unable to find a job in Westchester.

Staten Island Rep. Mike McMahon picked up the Independence Party today, a boost in his bid to win a second term in the NY - 13 district he captured in 2008 when Republican Vito Fossella left the stage amid personal scandal.

In November, Borelli won an uncontested race for the South Shore City Council seat recently held by Vincent Ignizio, who left that seat vacant to run Catholic Charities of Staten Island.

Oddo said this gives Staten Islanders not wanting to leave the Island for similar communities an incredible housing option.

Schneiderman lined up a long string of endorsements from the left — from labor unions like SEIU 1199 and HTC to the Rev. Al Sharpton (a nod that might come back to haunt the senator in the general election against Republican Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, after he pledged Sharpton's National Action Network would have an «annex» in Albany if he's elected»).

And at an event on Staten Island, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio — who has provided left - flank cover Cuomo and his running mate, Kathy Hochul — reiterated his backing for the governor but did not attack Teachout's decision to debate.

Tom Feeney, left, is replacing Paul Duffy, right, as Staten Island's regional representative for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office.

NEW YORK CITY — While Citi Bike stations have already popped up in New Jersey, the bike sharing service has only made it to three of the five boroughs in New York — leaving residents in The Bronx and Staten Island feeling snubbed.

Staten Island political kingmaker Guy V. Molinari, left, has replaced his protege, Rep. Michael Grimm, as a New York GOP presidential delegate.

Hizzoner promised Staten Island would not get a new jail, leaving the burden for the remaining four boroughs.

Just months after Percoco and his wife, Lisa Toscano Percoco, moved from a home on Staten Island to the country colonial in Westchester County — where the governor resides — she left her job as a public school teacher in New York City, Penland wrote in the criminal complaint.

Donovan, the former SI district attorney, is facing a re-election fight from his right and left in a conservative - leaning Staten Island district that includes southern Brookyln.

Mayor Bill de Blasio, left, winces as Staten Island Chuck breaks free and drops to the stage during the 2014 Groundhog Day ceremony at the Staten Island Zoo.

«At times it's hard for me to think that I'm leaving the New York Assembly, it's almost heartbreaking because I absolutely love the job and I love serving the North Shore of Staten Island as a legislator,» said Titone.

The Staten Island Republican — who left office in 2008 after a drunk - driving rap in Virginia exposed his secret second family and triggered a House ethics investigation — left an eight - year consulting gig at former Sen. Al D'Amato's Park Strategies firm in November.

During his Sunday morning radio show, Cats Round Table on AM 970, The Answer, Catsimatidis said Grimm (R - Staten Island / Brooklyn), who pleaded guilty last week to a felony tax fraud charge but said he wouldn't resign, should leave his seat in Congress.

Mr. Gentile received applause from students as he entered and left the school, and argued constituents across the district — most of whom reside on Staten Island — to reject electing another Republican to succeed former Congressman Michael Grimm, who stepped down in January after pleading guilty to a federal tax evasion charge.

The recent election of Congressman Daniel Donovan, the former Staten Island district attorney, has left a vacancy — many Republicans want State Senator Andrew Lanza to run for district attorney, a campaign that would also leave his State Senate vacant.

Melissa Mark - Viverito, the City Council speaker and a proud Democrat, is striking back against a pair of Staten Island Republicans who knocked her as a «socialist» to the «left of Mao» at a recent campaign rally.

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).