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...In April, workers at a facility in Staten Island became the first in Amazon’s history to vote to join a union....
...It was the summer of 1976 and he was at a block party at a housing project in Staten Island....
...It was unclear from the report which side the court’s Chief Justice John Roberts would side with....
...Robert Armstrong, my wonderful colleague who writes the Unhedged newsletter, thinks so....
...The union drive at Starbucks has parallels elsewhere — an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, a Home Depot in Philadelphia and an Apple store in Maryland....
...The big screens on the walls are playing that view on a loop, the Staten Island Ferry, the little boats, the Circle Line, planes coming down to land: the Venice of the modern era....
...“We tried to find something pretty for our girl,” her owner Brian, with a gruff Staten Island accent, explained to me....
...“You can bend the rules plenty when you get upstairs,” says Staten Island’s Tess McGill, as played by Melanie Griffith in Mike Nichols’ excellent Working Girl....
...Moses, as biographer Robert Caro has written, was all about power. Jacobs was about people....
...For example, Denmark’s Statens Serum Institut reported this week that R rose from 0.6 to 0.9 after the country reopened its primary schools and kindergartens in mid-April....
...“In one particular instance we were engaged by armed criminals who sought to take us hostage,” a former colleague, Robert Rubin, wrote of a security assignment in the Middle East....
...The buzz of the Staten Island ferry. The tension of the 30-minute wait for the start line bus. The controlled mania of the race village....
...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Letter in response to this article: Accepting our addictive natures is a challenge / From Dr Robert Lefever...
...The 20 year-old hails from Staten Island, the mostly white, working-class New York City borough where Mr Trump won 80 per cent of the vote in April’s Republican primary, his highest showing in any district...
...The paper, which was briefly owned by the late Robert Maxwell in the early 1990s, was acquired by Mr Zuckerman out of bankruptcy, when he paid $36m for the title....
...Photographs: Robert Stolarik; Reuters; Rebuild by Design...
...Further out in New York Harbour, in some of the worst-hit parts of Staten Island, damaged homes remain vacant, with boarded-up windows and untended yards....
...A week after October’s superstorm Sandy hit Fox Beach Avenue, Staten Island, two of Joseph Tyrone’s tenants packed into their pick-up truck the few belongings that had survived the catastrophe....
...Betty Matos knows that she is one of the lucky ones in South Beach, her neighbourhood of Staten Island....
...New York is a city of five boroughs – the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island....
...There are no houses ripped off their foundations, as in parts of Staten Island, or boats swept on to rail tracks....
...Nearly 40,000 runners had prepared to race the 26.2 mile course that runs through each of the city’s five boroughs and starts at the foot of the Verrazano Bridge in Staten Island, one of the hardest hit...
...Additional reporting by Robert Wright...
...About $3.5bn of that is expected to be to repair damage to MTA facilities, including the New York city subway, Long Island, Metro North and Staten Island railways and several bridges and tunnels....
...While the majority of Manhattan dodged the most damaging effects of the storm, coastal neighbourhoods in Staten Island and Queens were hit with flooding and power outages....
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