Hopefully this business can be settled peacefully.
The so-called Godfather house in Staten Island has received not one, but two offers, the Post reported yesterday. The sprawling 6,248-square-foot mansion in the Todt Hill neighborhood was used as the Corleone family's main digs when the The Godfather was filmed back in 1972. Read More
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg made a visit to Engine 166/Ladder 86 Fire Company on Staten Island today, to thank the firefighters there for their work and hold his second post-Irene press conference.
With clear skies and the city back to work, the mood was light enough for a daring reporter to ask the mayor about El Bloombito, the parodic Twitter account created this weekend by soap-making stay-at-home mom Rachel Figueroa-Levin. Good humored as always, the administration even posted the clip to its YouTube page, titled "El Alcalde Bloomberg habla sobre su esfuerzo por aprender español." Read More
On Friday afternoon, State Senator Diane Savino was still plotting exactly how best to help same-sex marriage couples celebrate their big day on Staten Island.
“Assemblyman [Matthew] Titone and I are going to be there handing out cupcakes and champagne -- or perhaps mimosas, or bellinis,” Savino said.
By the time The Observer arrived at Staten Island's Borough Hall at 2 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, Titone and Savino had come and gone, and the procession of couples seeking marriage ceremonies and licenses had largely tapered off.
The majority of the 38 couples who had registered to marry there had long since come through, leaving plenty of room for stragglers to meander into Borough Hall, sometimes in clothing more fit for a backyard cookout than a wedding ceremony. “That’s the beauty of the entire thing,” commented a passerby on Stuyvesant Street. “They can just hop off their bicycles and come and get married, no red tape, nothing.” Read More
Finally, Staten Island is good for something besides a cheap booze cruise.
As part of the mayor's PlaNYC 2.0, the Bloomberg administration is once again looking at turning the massive Fresh Kills Park into a power plant. Once the city's largest landfill, Fresh Kills in in the process of becoming the city's largest park, and Read More
Over the past decade, no one has built more "green" buildings than the city's School Construction Authority. Even before Local Law 86 required all civic buildings to be built to sustainability standards, the department had been using such measures--light sensors, efficient heating and cooling systems, recycled materials, etc.--to build healthier instiutions that also save money Read More
Make 'em an offer they can't refuse.
The Post's Jennifer Gould Keill turned up an unusual listing from Staten Island broker Connie Profaci for the Corleone Mansion from The Godfather, now for sale for $2.9 million. "Who can forget the wedding scene in The Godfather, in which the big iron gates opened onto a large Read More
The owners of a Staten Island pizza parlor dropped some pretty stellar paranomasia on two would-be theives, the New York Post reports.
Court documents indicate that the following actually happened: Salvatore LaRosa and an accomplice spotted the men from Brothers Pizzeria walking out of their restaurant with a bag, followed them to their home, and Read More
Score one for the cars in the ongoing bike lane wars.
Where else but in Staten Island would they roll back protections for bikers? The car-friendly island off the tip of New Jersey has just erased a bike lane that connected the Staten Island Ferry to the Staten Island Railroad, a slap in the Read More
There was no eleventh hour rescue for Cedar Grove, no life preserver for the 99-year-old beach community on Staten Island's South Shore, the last of its kind. Despite resident's best hopes, the politicians and preservationists backing the Grovers could not reach a deal with the Bloomberg administration or the Parks Department to save Read More
As the Real Estate Desk noted yesterday, the mayor will not back efforts to save the Cedar Grove Beach Community--the last of more than a dozen such summer getaways that once lined Staten Island's South Shore--despite a photo op that suggested otherwise. Now, Dave Young, a resident of one of Cedar Grove's 41 Read More
In 10 days, residents of the Cedar Grove Beach Community on Staten Island's South Shore will pack up after another blissful summer. They've been doing it for 99 years. But this time, the ritual is bittersweet, for it will be their last. The city has decided it will not renew the community's lease, which Read More
Staten Island Republican Congressional candidate Michael Allegretti today accused his Republican opponent, Mike Grimm of living a lie, and falsifying everything from his military career to his time in the FBI.
"Today I have four questions to ask my opponent in an effort to find out 'Who is the real Michael Grimm?,'" Allegretti said in a Read More
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Everyone knows that Village Voice 'Queer Issue' cover boy Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino is currently rolling in it. He might make $5 million this year alone. He gets $60,000 an ep for the Jersey Shore. He's going to broaden his audience with a Dancing on the Stars nod. So Read More
Daily News: “AUTOCRAT!” The word was first used to describe Napoleon more than 200 years ago, and my how it's grown! But there is a pun here: President Obama is setting policy for American auto-makers that are benefiting from government bailout money. It's actually pretty nice, except that the overall tone of the article Read More
The biggest chunk of the federal stimulus money coming to New York City is heading to the smallest borough. Of $261 million, $175 million is designated for overhauling ramps in the Saint George Ferry Terminal. When asked at the press conference today why so much money was going to one project, Bloomberg let his transportation Read More
