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Tom WrobleskiThe Staten Island Advance |
If you didn’t know this would happen, you haven’t been paying attention. A few months ago, Gov. Kathy Hochul put the widely despised congestion...
I’ve been a registered Democrat since the first year that I was eligible to vote, back in 1982. Over the years, I have voted for Democrats and...
Members of Mayor Eric Adams’ administration this week fanned out across the city to tell New Yorkers how wonderful the mayor’s “City of Yes”...
I was born on Staten Island and but for two years in the early 1990s when I resided in Manhattan, I’ve lived here all my life. Meaning that I blew...
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic candidate for vice president, recently said that he thinks that the Electoral College “needs to go” and...
Likening Republicans to Adolph Hitler or calling them Nazis and fascists is one of the most overused tropes in the Democratic Party playbook. ...
Not everybody is as enamored of speed cameras as New York City. Some cities in Iowa recently had to turn off most of their fixed-location speed...
Mayor Eric Adams on Thursday was indicted on federal charges of bribery, mail fraud and taking illegal campaign contributions. The mayor is innocent...
Things were already bad enough in the City of New York. Federal investigators have been crawling over the administration of Mayor Eric Adams for...
There was a shooting at a high school on Staten Island on Thursday. And but for a tip from a reader, the Advance/SILive.com might have never heard...
We know that there’s no end to the ways that motorists get ripped off by various cities and states, from speed cameras to congestion pricing. But...
Mayor Eric Adams wants to build more housing in New YorkCity. The way he’s going about it could be a nightmare for motorists in the five boroughs....
Gov. Kathy Hochul has clearly gotten the message about congestion pricing: a lot of people hate it. Why else did the governor put the whole policy on...
More than 3,000 people died in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Untold more have died, and will continue to die into the future, from...
So, you drive an electric vehicle. You think you’re doing the right thing. You’re cutting back on auto emissions.
If you’re sick of speed cameras, you may not want to read on.Because there’s another traffic device out there that is also slipping its hands into...
It’s been a month like few others in American political history. And now we’ve seen something that most of us have never seen in our lifetimes: a...
New York City has gone all in on speed cameras in a bid to get more and more money out of drivers. But some states and cities are putting limits...
It’s a different America now. And a different campaign for president. A sniper opened fire on Donald Trump as the former GOP president was...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – It seems like every time you drive around you find a new speed camera, slyly tucked away behind a utility pole or street sign....
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Talk about going off the rails. MTA board member Norman Brown recently suggested stripping us of new train cars arriving this...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – The city Sanitation Department recently performed a massive cleanup along the old North Shore rail line. More than 220 tons...
Make sure you’re following the rules the next time you’re motoring through an active work zone on the New York State Thruway or some other state...
President Joe Biden at last seems to know how calamitous his debate performance against former President Donald Trump was. A report in the New York...
Gov. Kathy Hochul has temporarily put congestion pricing on hold. She might want to make that hold permanent. Because congestion pricing doesn’t...
Gov. Kathy Hochul has put a temporary halt to congestion pricing. So motorists won’t be forced to pay a $15 tax every time they drive into Manhattan...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Maybe President Donald Trump should send Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg a big fruit basket or some other token of thanks. It was...
As part of a massive increase, the city Department of Transportation is installing new speed bumps at 65 locations on Staten Island this year. Last...
What’s more politically toxic than supporting congestion pricing? How about calling for a tax hike in order to make up for lost revenue because you...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – The more you hear about battery energy storage system sites, the more worried you get. And you realize how little we know...
I don’t want to be a downer. But we’re not be out of the woods yet when it comes to congestion pricing. In a stunning demonstration of actual...
Guilty as charged. Former President Donald Trump on Thursday was found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records in the Stormy Daniels...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Coming soon to a neighborhood near you: battery energy storage system sites. Staten Island, which was the city’s garbage...
Nico Murillo, a Tesla employee in California, so dreaded his 90-minute commute to work that he actually took to sleeping in his car at the factory in...
The $15 congestion pricing tax is going to be a bitter pill for a lot of New Yorkers. But some in the five boroughs are finding the program harder and...
If privileged college kids want to root for terrorists, that’s their right, as wrong-headed as it is. But they shouldn’t keep other kids from...
You knew this was coming.Because when it comes to anti-motorist Vision Zero efforts in New York City, nothing is ever enough.And now the State of New...
Motorists will have to pay $15 to enter Manhattan below 60th Street starting on June 30. So now we know. After years of information coming out in...
Get ready to say goodbye to your garbage cans. It won’t be long before you’ll be prohibited from using them. And get ready to pony up some cash...
Staten Island has always been Donald Trump country. Back in 2016, the future president took a whopping 82 percent of the borough vote in the GOP...
“Never forget.” That’s what we all said after the murderous terrorist attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, which killed nearly 3,000...
When it comes to crime in New York City, it’s not only about statistics. That was made crystal clear last Monday, when the city saw two tragic...
I thought we were all in this together when it came to saving the planet. But we’re not. At least not when it comes to forking over the coming $15...
Speed cameras remain widely unpopular among Staten Islanders, despite camera supporters saying that the devices have improved traffic safety across...