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New pickleball courts planned for Staten Island, local officials announce
The pickleball craze is sweeping the nation, and Staten Island is certainly no exception. Last Friday, local politicians announced plans to construct more public courts in the borough. Councilman Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore), along with Borough President Vito Fossella (R-Staten Island), and NYC Parks Commissioner Lynda Ricciardone made an appearance...
Vote now: Where is the best specialty pizza on Staten Island? | Best Of 2024
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — We kicked off our latest Best of Staten Island 2024 category last week, asking readers to nominate the best specialty pizza pies on Staten Island. After 60 nominations were submitted on our Instagram, Facebook and TikTok posts, it’s time to narrow the field to the top three finalists.
This group of teens is rejecting cellphones and social media
NEW YORK - A group of teenagers meets every Sunday in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, laughing, crafting and just talking.It's only unusual because there isn't a single smartphone in sight, and that's on purpose.They're part of a small but growing group of Brooklyn students who formed The Luddite Club, named after a 19th century movement opposing industrialization. This comes as New York City designated social media a public health hazard in 2024, and the Adams administration continues to consider banning cellphones in school."During COVID, I kind of looked at my screen time and I was like, 'Wow, I'm spending more than half...
CCRB probes of NYPD dropped because of budget cuts back on track, including one against top chief
A complaint about a top NYPD chief’s tweet is among 1,000 misconduct allegations that the Civilian Complaint Review Board might now be able to investigate, due to a budget restoration of nearly $1.2 million previously cut, the watchdog agency said. Chief of Patrol John Chell in January posted on X his opinion of a planned “Flood JFK for Gaza” protest at JFK International Airport, “What can’t I ...
Woman shot in stomach at NYCHA complex in East New York: NYPD
EAST NEW YORK, Brooklyn (PIX11) — A woman was shot in the stomach at a Brooklyn NYCHA complex early Tuesday morning, police said. The 41-year-old victim was shot at the Pink Houses at 2726 Linden Blvd. in East New York at around 2 a.m., according to the NYPD. The woman was taken to the hospital […]
Protesters celebrating Oct. 7 horrors across NYC are showing us all their true cause
On the one-year anniversary of the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust, the “pro-Palestinian” movement chose to celebrate, with hundreds of “protesters” hitting Wall Street and thousands gathering in Washington Square Park to march uptown. Their fellow-travelers also formed by the hundreds at campuses such as Columbia and NYU, chanting “From the river to the sea / Palestine will be free” — a call for Israel’s elimination, even if most of them refuse to realize or admit it. Other calls for murder included chants like, “There is only one solution, intifada revolution” and “Long live the intifada.” They vandalized a City College...
Thousands pack Central Park to mark 1 year since Hamas attacked Israel
NEW YORK -- Thousands gathered in Central Park on Monday night for a ceremony to remember the victims of the October 7th attack in Israel.The event, titled "October 7th -- One Year Later," was one organizers said they wish they didn't have to put together. It was the biggest event in New York City on Monday, with up to 5,000 in attendance, including New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The police presence was visible and quite large."We wish October 7th was just a regular day on the Jewish calendar, but it's not and it...
NYC marks Oct. 7 anniversary of Israel-Hamas war with memorial
NEW YORK (PIX11) — Hundreds of New Yorkers and politicians are coming together Monday to remember the victims of the Hamas-Israel war one year after the conflict began in the Middle East. The memorial kicks off at 5:30 p.m. on the south side of Union Square. “We will say loudly and clearly not another bomb,” […]
Super popular Salt & Straw has finally opened in NYC, but no one needed pastrami-on-rye ice cream
Salt & Straw — a Danny Meyer-backed, Portland, Oregon-based national chain of quirky ice cream shops — launched its first Big Apple spot at 360 Amsterdam Ave. last month to breathless media excitement. But its weirder confections should have stayed in Portland, a city with possibly the nation’s most self-important culinary scene. Some Salt & Straw “classics,” such as double-fold vanilla are fine, even at $21.20 for two double-scoop waffle cones. The vanilla is lasciviously creamy, but the flavor is one-dimensional compared to the airier, rum-and-nutmeg-tinted Madagascar vanilla at Gelato Factory a block away on Broadway. Mister Softee goes hard on NYC copycat ice cream...
Lanternflies be gone . . . please (letter to the editor)
On Arthur Kill Road ,just past Carlyle Green (in Village Greens), there is a tree loaded with lanternflies. It looks like the tree is dying, like the one I had outside of my house (in Chestnut Circle) that died. How do we get rid of them? Besides killing them? They...
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