A sprawling trucking terminal slated for Staten Island has emerged from a bureaucratic detour: after racking up a stop-work order and over $25,000 in fines, the developer now enjoys New York City’s blessing. Community dissent has done little to shov…
Commuters endured a slow start as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority reported delays in both directions of the Staten Island Railway on Monday morning, briefly turning the borough’s lone rail line into a patience-priming exercise. Normal service has since resumed, a reassuring sign that even New York’s most peripheral transit can still embrace the city’s tradition of eventually getting there—give or take a motive power hiccup.
A Staten Island entrepreneur is seeding his culinary empire with a nineteenth restaurant—this time plotting to bring Violette’s, his latest venture, across the Hudson to New Jersey. Having already spread his holdings over four states, the owner insists he’s scaling up without skimping on quality or his roots, apparently believing that home-cooked values travel as well as his expanding menu.
A principal in Kansas, credited with tackling an armed intruder at his high school in February, was unexpectedly crowned prom king by students last weekend, a gesture that arguably beats any youthful prank. He told NBC that instinct, training, and perhaps divine intervention helped avert disaster—a heartening outcome that leaves us pondering whether this is the only time crisis management has improved one’s odds at the coronation.
A Nevada mother, enraptured by the siren call of the gaming floor, allegedly left her 14-month-old son in a car outside the Silverton Casino, where Las Vegas temperatures swelled to 85°F. Police say the child waited over two hours before discovery; local authorities curtailed the outing and arrested her, perhaps fulfilling the adage that the house, and occasionally the law, always wins.
