Category: Staten Island

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — In honor of those who have died, here is a compilation of obituaries posted on SILive.com. Viewing times and guest books can be seen here. Ida Merlino, 103, died on Feb. 27, 2024. She was born and raised on Staten Island, to two Italian immigrants. She began working at her father’s…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Standing before a group of her peers and a handful of unfamiliar faces, a young student read aloud to District Attorney Michael E. McMahon. “A majority of people around the world face bullying often from discrimination,” the fourth-grade student said. “Personally, when I experience it, it makes me feel that I…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 40-year-old Brooklyn man accused of snapping a cane while striking a 78-year-old victim with the object outside the St. George Ferry Terminal has copped to a felony charge in the case, records show. Vladimir Joseph, of the 1100 block of Washington Avenue, pleaded guilty Feb. 21 in state Supreme Court,…

Charles Steele remembers all the days of hard work. Putting up shot after shot after shot in an effort to improve his perimeter game. With that in mind, It only seemed appropriate that the four-year varsity player join Staten Island’s coveted 1,000-point club via a pull-up jump shot. “I kept working and working and working,’’…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After considerable public pushback, Wendy’s is now framing its recently announced dynamic pricing strategy differently: Yes, there will be a price change, but it won’t be a surge during the lunch hour rush; instead it will be a discount when sales are slow. In a media statement issued on Tuesday, the…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y — Annadale resident Jennifer Guarnera, 27, was on surprise trip to Sardinia organized by her mom in honor of her late father’s dream for his daughters to visit “his country.” “He always spoke highly of Sardinia, saying, ‘Forget Hawaii, forget all these other islands, go to Sardinia,’” recalled Guarnera. “Unfortunately, he passed…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 47-year-old man who lives in Clifton was reported missing after he most recently was seen in Bloomfield. Taha Alsaidi, who lives in the vicinity of Vanderbilt Avenue and Bay Street, most recently was seen in the 1000 block of South Avenue on Fer. 20 at about noon, according to a…

A weather alert was issued by the National Weather Service on Thursday at 4:18 a.m. for lake effect snow until 6:15 a.m. for Oneida, Onondaga and Madison counties. “At 4:15 a.m., a lake effect snow band was along a line extending from Lysander to near Clayville and was nearly stationary,” according to the weather service.…

DEAR ABBY: My niece, who is engaged, is blossoming into a full-fledged bridezilla. She has upset her mother so deeply that she may not attend the wedding. The bride is dictating what her guests are to wear, in addition to telling her mother what she is to wear that day. She has also ordered my…

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — High winds have prompted travel restrictions on the Bayonne Bridge Wednesday night. Empty tractor-trailers, tandem trailers, motorcycles and car-pulled trailers are banned from the Bayonne according to Notify NYC and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The speed limit has been reduced to 30 mph for drivers. Read…