New York’s State Nurses Association has voted—by a thumping 97% margin—to authorize strikes at 12 city hospitals, Richmond University Medical Center on Staten Island among them, if contract talks miss their year-end deadline. Security—nurses point t…
Park Hill Apartments on Staten Island, long a byword for neglect, is set for a $165 million overhaul and new ownership by firms including Arker Companies and L+M Development Partners, with hefty sums from city, state, and federal coffers. Residents—over 1,000 souls waiting for proper kitchens—may finally see decades of promises morph into rewired, refurbished reality. Hope, as ever, will be included in the rent.
The Staten Island Foundation is giving local nonprofits on the often-overlooked New York borough access to Candid’s hefty Funders Information Database, promising digital matchmaking with elusive grantmakers at a time of lean government budgets. This partnership means leaders can now book time slots instead of braving binder-stuffed backrooms—proof perhaps that philanthropy, like Staten Island, can evolve without losing its accent.
We note the Hylan Boulevard CVS lot in Dongan Hills, Staten Island endures perennial scorn for its entrance bottlenecks, narrow angles and tortuous exit onto one of the borough’s busiest roads, resulting in gridlock that does a brisk trade during rush hour. Yet, as locals grudgingly admit, its proximity trumps geometry—especially once the clock (and traffic) strikes eight, when the real scramble seems only to be for prescriptions.
