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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....
...But the victory for workers in the Staten Island Amazon warehouse, who last week won the right to form a union, suggests that trend could be changing, argues Sarah O’Connor....
...The case involved Francis Lorenzo, an employee at a broker-dealer in Staten Island, New York....
...Last week, talking to CNBC, he savaged “bureaucracy and corruption and sinecure,” saying he was “ashamed” that it took so long to build a bridge between Bayonne, New Jersey and Staten Island, New York....
...Politicians throughout the EU are talking up the proposition of their own Brexit-like portmanteaus, but Trump supporter – and New York City Councilman – Joe Borelli thinks it is Staten Island’s turn to leave...
...Over the last ten years Hudson City, a $35bn-in-assets lender based in Paramus, New Jersey, has pushed into new markets in Staten Island, Long Island, Connecticut and parts of New York State....
...The company, which Forbes estimates brought in $8bn in revenue in 2014, still maintains its official address at the headquarters of the Staten Island Advance, the newspaper that Si and Donald’s father, Samuel...
...HOUSING In some of the worst-hit parts of Staten Island and Long Island, many damaged homes with boarded-up windows remain vacant....
...Cornelius Vanderbilt The first great corporate tycoon in American history, Cornelius “Commodore” Vanderbilt started a ferry service between Staten Island and the rising commercial centre of Manhattan at...
...While coastal parts of Staten Island suffered as much storm damage as anywhere, a significant number of the island’s 470,000 residents – many Italian-American, many emergency service workers – are entering...
...The Federal Emergency Management Agency temporarily closed its relief centres on Staten Island, the Rockaways, Coney Island and the Bronx, citing the safety of its staff....
...Mr Obama flew by helicopter over the Rockaways and Breezy Point in Queens – some of the worst-hit parts of the city – before visiting a federal disaster relief centre on Staten Island where he spoke with...
...In New York City, 115,000 had no electricity, the majority in Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island, mayor Michael Bloomberg said....
...Ray Kelly, New York police commissioner, said there had been two looting incidents reported on Wednesday night in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn and on Staten Island....
...The board of elections’ central phone line was knocked out by the storm and offices in Manhattan and Staten Island lost power....
...The city’s death toll from the storm has risen to 41 and Mr Bloomberg warned it could rise further as rescue crews go through the wreckage in the most badly hit areas of Staten Island, Queens and Brooklyn...
...Raised in a modest district of Taipei, where he still lives, he got poor grades at school so his parents sent him to live with an aunt in Staten Island, New York....
...Anthony Chatfield of Staten Island had brought his wife and young child in the hope of securing deals in the store on Friday that could not be had at other times....
...(Financial Times) Sandy’s devastation widens: “From New York City’s Staten Island to the popular beach towns of the Jersey Shore, rescuers and officials on Friday faced growing evidence of widespread destruction...
...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....
...Island, Brooklyn, and elsewhere who are gazing hopelessly at a smoking crater where their company stock retirement plan used to be....
...“As my parents would tell me when I informed them of my amazing achievements as a child in Staten Island, NY, ‘that and five cents will get you a ride on the ferry’.”...
...It has again returned its focus to New York – where it is hoping to open a store on an old industrial site on Staten Island – and has held meetings with local Hispanic and Asian small-business leaders in...
...A Staten Island Ferry had also been chartered to allow the borough’s workers to reach Manhattan. “We’re expecting a normal schedule. Its business as usual,” said a Nybot spokesman....
...Its efforts to open a 130,000sq ft store in Brooklyn, the Bronx or Staten Island have provoked furious protests. As for Manhattan, forget about it....
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