Category: Staten Island

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Port Richmond High School students recently returned from the state capital after participating in the annual Puerto Rican/Hispanic Youth Leadership (PR/HYL) conference, with four of them earning scholarship prizes. The PR/HYL conference, which was hosted on Sunday, March 10, as part of a three-day event, had the Capital bustling with more…

DEAR ABBY: My mom passed away recently, and the person I was in a relationship with from adolescence to my adulthood, “Charles,” didn’t attend her funeral. While I’m currently in a relationship with someone else I deeply love, I still feel my mother was fond of Charles despite our many hardships. Her affection for him…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Twelve units comprising 60 firefighters responded to a call of a fire at a home in West Brighton Wednesday night. The all-hands blaze was reported around 6:20 p.m. in the walls of a residence located at 277 Martling Ave., between Brookside Avenue and Manor Road, an FDNY spokesperson said. The fire…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — He might’ve come to Staten Island for ya sista, but he’s sticking around to see his mudda. For those wondering, the famed social media funny-man “Meals by Cug” does have a real name — he’s Danny Mondello of Rossville. And although he recently moved to Brooklyn to continue his explosive career…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It’s not every day that you stumble across an unopened box of syringes out in public on your way to work. However, that’s exactly what Rob Foran, a senior care assistant from Tompkinsville, found on a chair in a seating area near the National Lighthouse Museum in St. George Wednesday morning.…

TAMPA, Fla. — Aaron Boone headed from the Yankees dugout to his manager’s office after Wednesday’s spring training game at Steinbrenner Field, a 9-4 loss to the Red Sox. Seeing beat writers waiting in a hallway, Boone said, “Come on in guys.” “No, not yet,’ PR man Jason Zillo told Boone before huddling with the…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 911 call regarding a group of teens jumping off a pier into the water below prompted a large emergency response in Pleasant Plains Wednesday. The incident occurred at around 3:30 p.m. at a fishing pier near Sharrott Avenue and Hylan Boulevard. Read the full article here

Social media is going bonkers over Wagner College’s unthinkable run through the Northeast Conference Tournament, the culmination coming Tuesday night when the No. 6 seeded Seahawks toppled second-seed Merrimack, 54-47, in the title game in Massachusetts. It was the third straight tournament win by Wagner, which beat No. 3 seed Sacred Heart in the quarters…

RYE, N.Y. — The St Teresa’s Falcons 3A boys team wrapped up an unbeaten season last weekend by bringing home a CYO Archdiocesan crown from the School of the Holy Child. St. Teresa’s, which finished 21-0, beat Our Lady of Sacred Heart of Rockland County, 41-15, as Aaron To netted 15 points and was followed…

Buffalo, N.Y. — You don’t have to drive to Washington D.C. to see stunning spring cherry blossoms. Buffalo has been named one of the best places in the United States to see glorious cherry blossoms by Country Living. The big Western New York city made the list of 30 destinations alongside Macon, Georgia; Central Park…