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The forgotten borough: the ferry, the expressway, the one that always feels left out (we don’t).

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  1. August 29, 2026 The FerryHawks play as the Shaolin Hawks on Saturday, giving away Wu-Tang Clan concert tickets in the second, fourth, sixth and eighth innings.
  2. August 23, 2026 Fresh Kills New $230 million sanitation garages opened, clearing the old Jersey Street site for 232 affordable homes and a grocery store.
  3. August 22, 2026 Tompkinsville The city opened a $230 million Sanitation complex at Fresh Kills, clearing the way to demolish the old Jersey Street garage for 232 affordable apartments, including a 90-unit senior building.
  4. August 21, 2026 Mamdani's housing plan targets 17,675 new homes on Staten Island over five years, a 9.5% jump that would test the borough's most car-dependent, low-density neighborhoods.
  5. August 21, 2026 Twin tornadoes hit Queens and Long Island — *A birthday cookout at a Nassau beach club ended with the roof gone and furniture flying across the sand.* Top story
  6. August 20, 2026 Fresh Kills The city opened a $230 million sanitation garage at Fresh Kills, clearing the way to demolish the old North Shore facility for 232 affordable homes, a grocery store and open space.
  7. August 20, 2026 Bloomfield Investor Dov Hertz sold a 53-acre industrial storage site for $167 million, the largest such sale in New York City history.
  8. August 19, 2026 A 19-year-old was found dead with bruised wrists and signs of malnourishment in a New Springville apartment; his mother's account didn't match what officers found.
  9. August 19, 2026 The city's new $230 million Fresh Kills sanitation complex clears the way for 232 apartments and a grocery store on the North Shore.
  10. August 18, 2026 Richmond Dana Foley, 39, a mother devoted to her young son, died in an apparent murder-suicide with her boyfriend on a quiet Richmond cul-de-sac last week.
  11. August 14, 2026 The borough's own flag could become official under a City Council bill up for a vote Thursday.
  12. August 13, 2026 Midland Beach A city Parks Department seasonal worker was charged with child endangerment after handing a 10-year-old girl a lighter for a firework that blew off several of her fingers.
  13. August 12, 2026 Port Richmond A man with about 25 prior arrests was found eating pizza near the ferry terminal after allegedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend's friend to death; he's held without bail.
  14. August 11, 2026 The City Council could finally make the borough's decade-old flag official at a committee vote Thursday.
  15. August 11, 2026 Pied-à-Terre Tax Blocked, Then Unblocked — *A tax nine years in the making got stopped by a judge and revived by a lawyer, all before lunch.* Top story
  16. August 10, 2026 A Council committee votes Thursday on codifying the borough's decade-old flag into city law, a decade after critics said its predecessor looked like a garbage dump.
  17. August 7, 2026 The borough has the city's second-highest home air-conditioning rate, 96.6%, as summer heat advisories keep piling up.
  18. August 6, 2026 Landlords suing over the city's rent freeze are fighting to keep their case in a friendlier Staten Island courtroom as the city pushes to move it to Manhattan.
  19. August 6, 2026 Mamdani was booed off a Midland Beach stage after less than a minute at an NYPD National Night Out event, the Post reports.
  20. August 5, 2026 State lawmakers secured $445,000 to restore the haunted, 1885 Kreischer Mansion in Charleston and open it to the public.
  21. July 31, 2026 Chinese immigrants are now 17% of the borough's foreign-born population, driving a homeownership boom centered on New Dorp Lane.
  22. July 29, 2026 Chinese immigrants are now the borough's largest foreign-born group, 28,200 people who pushed Staten Island's immigrant population up 30% over the past decade, drawn largely from Sunset Park by cheaper homeownership.
  23. July 26, 2026 St. George The City Council approved a 14-story, 117-unit building near the ferry terminal with 30 permanently affordable apartments, part of a citywide package of more than 3,200 new homes.
  24. July 25, 2026 A judge tossed Randy Mastro's lawsuit to advance an open-primary ballot measure, though he could still appeal before an Aug. 3 deadline.
  25. July 24, 2026 Tottenville/Bay Terrace NYC Parks finished a $15 million rebuild of Aesop Park and Greencroft Playground with new play equipment, ramps and spray showers.
  26. July 23, 2026 The NYPD admitted in a court filing it wrote 257 criminal summonses to "reckless" cyclists since Mamdani ended the Adams-era e-bike crackdown.
  27. July 17, 2026 Sunday's World Cup final watch party lands at Midland Beach's Lot 7, the borough president's free screening alongside carnival rides and youth soccer drills.
  28. July 12, 2026 North Shore Two vending machines stocked with free naloxone, emergency contraception and condoms landed on the North Shore, funded by the city's opioid settlement after the borough posted its second-highest overdose death rate.
  29. July 7, 2026 Gothamist reports that a humpback whale surfaced off Staten Island and spent part of the July 4th weekend alongside boats celebrating the Sail4th holiday on the water.
  30. July 3, 2026 The Staten Island Ferry shuts down from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and again from 8 to 10 p.m. on July 4 to make way for 48 Navy vessels sailing up the Hudson for Sail4th 250; the MTA is adding express buses on SIM routes.
  31. June 26, 2026 NYPD has barred Officer James Giovansanti, who accumulated 547 speed and red-light camera violations since 2022, from driving squad cars, and the Internal Affairs Bureau has opened a formal investigation, the first public acknowledgment of the probe since Streetsblog's April report stunned the city. (Streetsblog)
  32. June 25, 2026 An unmarked NYPD Community Response Team car has accumulated $38,000 in unpaid speed camera tickets over three years, including 406 school zone violations, with the NYPD neither contesting them properly nor paying them, while five traffic agents walked past the car while it sat parked next to a fire hydrant for nine hours without a ticket.

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