Staten Island secession might not be a bad thing — for New York City’s crime stats. Murders in the “forgotten” borough have surged 129% so far this year over last year, to 16 from seven.

Staten Island, the third largest borough of New York City, was home to the Raritan and Unamis Indians when it was discovered by Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524. Despite the Dutch ...

Talk of Staten Island secession is back in the news. Nicole Malliotakis, the Republican congresswoman representing the borough and parts of southern Brooklyn, said that the migrant crisis should ...

Up until recently, an eerie recording reverberated 24 hours a day in the usually quiet Staten Island neighborhood of Arrochar: "This building is not safe for humans. The community wants you to go ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y, -- In the 1920s and 1930s, a medical dispensary at the corner of Bay Street and Union Place in Stapleton was transformed into an infirmary. According to historian James Ferreri ...

In New York, a ground-dweller by the name of Staten Island Chuck has made his call: spring is coming. New York's weather-predicting groundhog issued a proclamation Sunday morning, declaring that ...

A Staten Island judge ordered Friday that Mayor Adams’ administration cannot use an old private school in the borough as a migrant shelter — but the ruling was reversed within hours by a ...