Workers are struggling to save an old Staten Island ferry that’s sinking 60 miles north of New York in the Hudson River. The Herbert H. Lehman, named after the former New York Governor and United States Senator , was decommissioned in 2007 after four decades of service. The ferry began taking on water last week and is now listing to starboard at the end of a pier near Newburgh, NY. Divers inspected the sunken portion on Monday and determined it was resting on the river bottom. [ more › ]
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Photo: Old Retired Staten Island Ferry Boat Sinking Poetically
The Federal Bureau of Investigation may investigate claims that Republican Congressman from Staten Island Michael Grimm received illegal cash donations from the followers of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Tosef Pinto. An FBI official told the Wall Street Journal that the bureau is “gathering information” on the allegations, first reported in the New York Times but apparently noted by former Congressman Anthony Weiner, who said he informed the FBI of possible illegal activity in 2010. [ more › ]
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FBI May Investigate Claims That Michael Grimm Took Illegal Cash
A Staten Island woman says the NYPD wrongly forced her to go to the hospital while she was waiting for the ferry after a night of drinking in Manhattan. On December 8th last year, just before midnight, Chloe Sowers was sitting on the floor of the Lower Manhattan terminal drinking a coconut water and waiting for the boat to take her home. She was sitting on the floor because no seats were available, but this caught the eye of one Officer Kevin McKeon, who was so “concerned” about Sowers that she ended up handcuffed and taken to New York Downtown Hospital, where she was bound and drugged for the night against her will. [ more › ]
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Tipsy Lady Sues City After Cops Hospitalize Her Against Her Will
After reports that he strong-armed $500K in mystical donations from the followers of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, Staten Island Congressman Michael Grimm has had to distance himself from his duties as a Mitt Romney surrogate. But yesterday he told supporters that this whole “impropriety” stink isn’t so bad, compared to his other gigs as a Marine and FBI agent. “I’ve had people try to kill me. I’m going to dust myself off and I’m going to keep fighting for the people of Staten Island and Brooklyn.” [ more › ]
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Rep. Grimm Dismisses Sketchy Donation Allegations: "I’ve Had People Try To Kill Me"
While scanning through this 1946 issue of Modern Mechanix , we noticed something that looked incredibly similar to Darth Vader, who wasn’t created until much later, and didn’t appear on the big screen until 1977 . In the issue, it states: [ more › ]
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Did The Design For Darth Vader Come From An Old LES Oddities Shop?
Police on Staten Island are searching for the driver of a black SUV or pick-up truck who fatally ran over a cyclist last night near Wagner College. The unidentified 29-year-old cyclist was killed while biking along a curved stretch of road around 9 p.m. He was carrying a backpack containing a Wagner College folder and other papers, and the force of the collision knocked off one of his sneakers. The Staten Island Advance reports that according to a preliminary investigation the cyclist was headed “eastbound,” or uphill, on the “westbound” side of the road. [ more › ]
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Cops Search For Hit-And-Run Driver Who Killed Cyclist On Staten Island
The city’s Law Department has filed two more lawsuits against stores that exploit a perceived loophole in the city’s obscene cigarette tax law. You’ll recall that New York Smokes, a retail tobacco outlet on Staten Island, was making bank selling customers loose tobacco, which is taxed at a far lower rate than cigarettes. Customers would then roll their own smokes in the store using cigarette stuffing machines, walking out with a pack for about $6—far less than the average $13 price. But then the city cracked down on that enterprise, and now the guv’ment is going after two more shops. [ more › ]
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Roll-Your-Own Cigarette Shop Crackdown Continues With 2 More Stores Sued
Just like last year , Staten Island Chuck has once again predicted an early spring. Early this morning Mayor Bloomberg visited Chuck’s house at the zoo for the annual Groundhog Day ceremony, along with the PS22 Chorus , and a large crowd, according to the SI Advance … and not one of them saw a shadow. [ more › ]
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Staten Island Chuck Says Early Spring (Phil Says Six More Weeks Of Winter)
Last month it was revealed that the charity of a mystical rabbi to the stars spent $77,000 on a three-week rental in the Hamptons. Now, the Times reports that the followers of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto were allegedly strong-armed into illegally donating over $500,000 to Staten Island Congressman Michael Grimm’s campaign fund. Ah, so that’s how mysticism works. [ more › ]
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Rep. Grimm Allegedly Took $500K In Mystical, Illegal Donations
First dates are tough: you don’t want the person to know that you actually spend all your time in the same dingy dive, but no matter what super scientific online dating surveys say, dropping $100 on dinner reeks of trying too hard. Museums show you’re cultured, but all the line-waiting and pretending to know about Kandinsky can get tiring. Movies: staid and boring (you’re both just sitting in the dark!), and concerts are fine if you don’t mind shouting over the bass. So what does New York City’s Bachelor-in-Chief think is the “best spot in NYC” for a first date? “The Staten Island Ferry!” In January? Poor Diana. [ more › ]
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Bloomberg’s Idea For A Perfect First Date? The Staten Island Ferry