Staten Island (New York City)

Superstorm Sandy aid center on Staten Island fights order to leave

2013-05-06 06:30:00

NEW YORK — It has been six months since Donna Graziano packed a barbecue into her car, drove 15 miles from her Brooklyn home to Staten Island, and began cooking for residents of a neighborhood ravaged by Superstorm Sandy. Her one-woman effort in a...

The Goldman Sachs banker turned Nature Conservancy chief

2013-05-04 00:00:00

Mark Tercek had some horribly awkward moments after he left Goldman Sachs to run a U.S. environmental charity, the Nature Conservancy. At one of his first big staff meetings, he committed a total eco no-no by drinking from a plastic water bottle. When...

May Day in New York: Protesting just about everything

2013-05-01 15:36:00

NEW YORK -- There are many things to protest against in the world, and people rallying against a fair number of them took to one of New York’s iconic squares on May Day as part of nationwide rallies in celebration of the traditional workers holiday....

Gerald D. Klee dies at 86; psychiatrist involved in Army LSD experiments

2013-03-08 19:50:00

Gerald D. Klee, a retired psychiatrist and LSD expert who participated in experiments with the hallucinogenic drug on volunteer servicemen at U.S. military installations in the 1950s, has died. He was 86. Klee died Sunday of complications after...

Review: 'The Bitter Buddha' follows Eddie Pepitone's dreams

2013-02-14 19:40:00

Eddie Pepitone, perhaps the funniest stand-up comedian you've never heard of, gets a deserving close-up in the amusing, freewheeling documentary "The Bitter Buddha." Although the dyspeptic Pepitone, an unmade bed of a guy in his early 50s, has...

Iraq veteran on his double-arm transplant: 'It feels amazing'

2013-01-29 18:12:00

From the moment he entered the room at Johns Hopkins Hospital for his news conference, Brendan Marrocco was a picture of determination. He pushed his wheelchair using his arms and wrists and he smiled, showing off the new limbs. “It feels amazing,...

'Argo' writer Chris Terrio on Affleck collaboration

2013-01-17 06:00:00

It's a truism that all Hollywood screenwriters learn, either the easy way or the hard way, that filmmaking is a collaborative art. Still, some personality types struggle with that. Not Chris Terrio. That becomes all the more clear when, intending to...

Seafood fraud widespread in N.Y., probe finds

2012-12-11 11:57:00

This post has been corrected. See note below. There's a good chance that the white tuna sashimi served up at your favorite Manhattan sushi joint isn't white tuna at all. Instead, 94% of the fish labeled as white tuna in New York turned out to be...

Staten Island panel recommends armed officers in schools

2013-01-08 13:28:00

NEW YORK -- �A school panel in Staten Island has passed a controversial resolution recommending that armed, retired NYPD officers patrol local schools in the interest of security in the wake of the school shootings in Newtown, Conn. Though the panel has...

‘Man with the Iron Fists’: Rapper RZA makes jump to film director

2012-11-01 08:22:40

Sneaker review: Bon Iver's 'Ramos' shoe by Keep

2012-06-18 16:37:29

Battle of the Burgers recipe: German Cuban pork burger

2011-06-30 00:00:00

� "My German Cuban Pork Burger is THE BIGGEST BADDEST burger out there because it's not your regular lame everyday burger. Serve these burgers to your friends and family and THEY will tell you that these German Cuban Pork Burgers are not only...

Stephen Graham, left, and Morgan Spector filming on location for "Boardwalk Empire" on Feb. 22, 2013, in the Staten Island borough of New York City.

2013-02-23 00:00:00

From left, Brendan Marrocco, Dr. W.P. Andrew Lee, and Dr. Jamie Shores. Brendan Marrocco, attended a press conference held at Johns Hopkins Hospital with his team of doctors to discuss his bilateral arm transplant surgery, which was done on Dec. 18, 2012.

2013-01-29 20:15:00

Brendan Marrocco, attended a press conference held at Johns Hopkins Hospital with his team of doctors to discuss his bilateral arm transplant surgery, which was done on Dec. 18, 2012. Marrocco lost all four limbs in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq in 2009.

2013-01-29 20:15:00