STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City officials have removed a section of NYPD barricade on Midland Avenue located by a migrant shelter that occupies the former Island Shores senior facility.
The section of barricade, which stood between Baden Place and Father Capodanno Boulevard, was taken away Sunday following a conversation between New York City Mayor Eric Adams and two New York State Assembly members representing Staten Island.
The removal of the section of barricade allows for improved vehicular access, as motorists may once again turn onto Midland from Father Capodanno.
“Assemblyman Mike Reilly and I conferred with Mayor Eric Adams and the NYPD today about the barriers along Midland Avenue and the surrounding streets,” Assemblyman Michael Tannousis (R-East Shore) posted to social media Sunday. “As a result of that conversation, the barriers have been removed. Traffic will now be flowing freely around this location.”
Barriers still surround the perimeter of the former Midland Beach-based senior facility, and an NYPD presence consisting of several police vehicles are still stationed in the area, as noticed Sunday evening by the Staten Island Advance/SILive.com.
Many of the metal barricades are now pulled to the side of the street on Midland Avenue and stacked next to each other on the sidewalk at the corner of Baden Place.
An NYPD barricade on Midland between Baden Place and Father Capodanno Boulevard, that limited vehicular access around the former Island Shores senior facility, now a migrant shelter, has been removed as of late Sunday afternoon. (Staten Island Advance/Scott R. Axelrod)
An area resident told the Advance/SILive.com she was pleased to see the removal of the barricade that made driving in the area a “real inconvenience.”
She also was pleased with the fact that MTA buses can now access nearby Father Capodanno Boulevard, as vehicles on Father Capodanno were being detoured onto Lincoln Avenue and vehicles on Midland headed toward Father…
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