After a federal funding pullback and the Trump administration’s sharper gaze on “politically sensitive” art, some New York City artists are discreetly shelving projects on race, immigration, and gender. Private donors help cushion the blow, but with…
Staten Island’s ever-watchful fleet of about 230 speed cameras, both fixed and mobile, managed to issue a brisk 400,620 summonses and rake in nearly $20 million in fines between January and late November 2025, city data show. The Department of Transportation is tight-lipped about new camera locations, but diligent sleuthing by locals still reveals fresh surveillance spots, adding a modern twist to defensive driving—and perhaps cautioning us all to check twice before putting pedal to metal.
Spades hit dirt at Bayonne’s former Military Ocean Terminal, where construction has begun on a ferry terminal set to link New Jersey more briskly to Manhattan. The $4.4 million land buy sees Bayonne’s officials and New York Waterway betting on surging ridership, helped by property-owner handouts and promises of expanded waterfront promenades—a curious twist for a spot once built to launch soldiers, not commuters, across the water.
The Staten Island Foundation has teamed up with Candid to let local nonprofits tap a vast trove of funders’ data from its offices, offering a welcome lifeline as government grants wobble. Groups can now reserve weekday slots to hunt for cash using digital terminals, a rather large leap from the era of binder-wrangling. Evidently, philanthropy’s paper chase has at last discovered Ctrl+F.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill that would have required police agencies—including the NYPD—to grant journalists and emergency services selective access to encrypted radio frequencies, citing fears of compromising public safety and officials’ whereabouts. The measure, passed along party lines but lacking veto-proof support, now languishes—prompting local media to sharpen their pencils, if not their antennas, in protest.
Eden II/Genesis Foundation’s Winter Wonderland Gala brought over 400 guests to Staten Island’s Hilton Garden Inn, setting new fundraising and attendance records while doling out honors to five local pillars, including Dr. Donna Corrado and the North Shore Rotary. Proceeds go to autism services on Staten Island and Long Island. For a sector perennially hungry for resources, such largesse is as rare as a silent auction without bidding drama.
At peak hours, drivers queuing for the persistently maligned CVS lot at 1361 Hylan Boulevard, Staten Island, blockade traffic and test patience, thanks to one-way lanes too slender for modern cars and exits straight onto the borough’s throbbing artery. Locals suggest alternate driveways, but old habits—and determined motorists—die hard; perfect pharmacy locations may heal all woes, but not, it seems, the bruises to our bumpers.
