Just as turkey leftovers faded, Staten Island’s weekly flu cases nearly tripled, rising to 234 by November 22nd—echoing leaps across all New York City boroughs, with citywide flu reports up 141% from last year to 9,563, per state health data. Brookl…
Staten Island braces for an Arctic blast as temperatures are set to drop from the low 40s into the teens Thursday night, with wind chills reaching the single digits, the National Weather Service warns. The cold snap may flirt with Central Park’s 1926 record low, while a fleeting suggestion of snow Friday is unlikely to impress anyone but meteorologists—who do love a bracing forecast, if not the frostbite.
Frank Morano, a Staten Island councilmember, has asked New York City’s transport department to study whether right-on-red turns—mostly forbidden in the city but nearly universal elsewhere—might safely resume at select intersections in his borough. The study would scrutinize places like Annadale, weighing quicker commutes against pedestrian risk, especially near schools. We await data to see whether local driving deserves a red light or merely a cautious amber.
Commuters inching toward New Jersey from Staten Island met their match in a Turnpike ramp crash near the Goethals Bridge, according to the Port Authority, with a neat dose of lane closures on the Verrazzano-Narrows adding to the morning grind. Some earlier snarls on the Staten Island Expressway have ebbed, but one suspects even Google Maps is running out of alternate routes for Gotham’s enduring motorists.
A 21-year-old ShopRite worker, Dominick Sacchetti, stands accused of setting fire to paper goods at a Staten Island supermarket just before Thanksgiving, forcing a frantic evacuation but causing no injuries. The blaze, which officials say caused over $100,000 in damage at the crowded Great Kills store, left both turkeys and tempers overcooked—a timely reminder that not all holiday chaos comes from the oven.
A Staten Island skincare entrepreneur, Eman Masoud, ignited outrage by posting a now-deleted video in which she boasted about denying help with a parking meter to a Jewish couple unless they said “Free Palestine.” Masoud’s Pure with Nature business is now under digital fire, its website shuttered, as online critics pile on—demonstrating yet again that in the age of viral morality, customer service takes unexpected forms.
Rashad Porter, 21, of Port Richmond, pleaded guilty in June after NYPD officers found him packing a 9 mm pistol with an extended magazine and 30 oxycodone pills during a late-night stop in a Tesla SUV on Staten Island. Six months’ jail and five years’ probation await him; Porter's lawyer remained silent while the NYPD cheerfully posted its catch of the day on X.
