Our Lady Queen of Peace Church on New Dorp Lane Allmir Lekperic, the 26-year-old Staten Island driver charged with fatally striking an elderly couple walking to a Thanksgiving Eve church mass and leaving the scene, posted the $50,000 bail. And his [...]
It makes a sort of twisted sense that Allmir Lekperic would try to find a way to wiggle out. Lekperic, 26, was driving with a suspended license when he allegedly struck and killed an elderly Stat...
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Our Lady Queen of Peace church On Wednesday afternoon, DOT officials had met with the pastor at Our Lady Queen of Peace church on Staten Island to discuss the problem of reckless drivers on the street that runs by the church and [...]
Last night, a couple in their 70s were fatally struck by a vehicle as they were crossing a Staten Island street to attend a church mass. The Staten Island Advance reports, "Lillian Sabados [77] was pronounced dead at Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze," [...]
We love Staten Island. These two guys broke into a Dunkin' Donuts in St. George in the wee hours of November 13, and stole about $3,000. However, they did not take precautions as to the security...
Continue reading "Staten Island Dumbasses Pose for Camera While Robbing'" [...]It's the magical holiday season, and you know what that means: drunk driving crackdowns! On Staten Island, D.A. Daniel Donovan hopes to scare the many hard-drinking readers of the Staten Island Ad...
Continue reading "Staten Island D.A. Turns to Shame to Halt Drunk Driving" > ' [...]It is that time again, the return of the Staten Island Railway’s “Get-A-Way” service. Here are the details courtesy of a press release sent to me by the MTA:
Staten Island customers looking to get a head start on their Thanksgiving celebration will be able to catch earlier afternoon express train [...]
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The Staten Island teenager who was run over in a chain reaction car crash in front of her high school last week has died. Janine Brawer, 17, was taken off of her respirator on Thursday after going [...]
The last dolphin spotting reported was off Staten Island this August, but today, just before 3 p.m., we got word that a dolphin was entangled in Queens — somewhere around Beach 87th and Beach Channel Drive. And some good news followed the original [...]
These cowboys have been flying around Staten Island's North Shore, usually on Forest Avenue, since August, pulling their dark-colored 2002-to-2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee up to nail salons, dry clea...
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Zelda the Turkey in Battery Park It's a Thanksgiving miracle! A wild turkey hailing from Staten Island found her way to the New Jersey Turnpike, where for days she's been dodging vehicles and worrying toll booth attendants.
Yesterday Tammy the Turkey, as [...]
Yesterday, the NY Attorney General's Organized Crime Task Force and NYPD raided a number of homes and business in Staten Island, Brooklyn, NJ, Pennsylvania, and Nevada, arresting 22 people from two investigations dubbed "Operation Pure Luck" and "Operation Night Gallery." The charges, according to Cuomo's' [...]
A city Sanitation Department chief; his father-in-law, an alleged Gambino family soldier; the owner of the popular Staten Island supermarket chain, Top Tomato, long-suspected by locals of having m...
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Continuing our Staten Island/ cosmetic procedure/ crime theme: Earlier this year, when Reverend William Blasingame of Staten Island's St. Paul's Memorial Episcopal Church was accused of stealing ...
Continue reading "Rev Who Stole for Botox Gets Probation, Must Pay Back $85K" > [...]This guy, Eduard Belfer, was busted in April for giving shots to patients without a medical license. Belfer was telling patients at Staten Island Pain Associates that he was a doctor, which was no...
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View Larger Map DATE: Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 12:27 a.m. LOCATION: In front of 44 Yale Street, Staten Island. In the second of two weekend murders in Staten Island, two men were shot, one of them ...
Continue reading "Somebody Got Murdered: A Second Weekend Homicide in Staten Island" [...]View Larger Map DATE: Nov. 14, 2009, 5:37 a.m. LOCATION: 23 York Ave., Staten Island. Staten Island isn't known as a murder hotbed, but this weekend, two men were shot and killed in the borough....
Continue reading "Somebody Got Murdered: Murder in Staten Island" > ' [...]The Staten Island Republican primary to choose a candidate to compete for Vito Fossella's former seat, currently held by Democrat Michael McMahon, may take place between Michael Allegretti, the 31...
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A Staten Island teenager is in critical condition after she was run over in a chain reaction car crash in front of Tottenville High School yesterday. At around 11:30 am, a Nissan Maxima stopped to allow 17-year-old senior Janine Brawer to cross [...]
Some folks are really unhappy about Brooklyn/Staten Island Democrat Michael McMahon's no vote on the health care bill. Some folks aren't. -- The city has made 700k WPA photos of New York address...
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Okay, so the International Speedway Corp.—which owns NASCAR—said they wouldn't pursue the building a raceway on Staten Island back in 2006—but they only sold their 676-acre parcel of land yesterday. The plot was bought by KB Marine for $80 million, and the ISC' [...]
International Speedway Corp. (ISC), whose plans to build a NASCAR track on Staten Island set off a "near riot" at a public hearing, announced the sale of the site to a Texas company at a $30 milli...
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