• Staten Island Yankees ‘shocked’ big-league team dumped them

    Staten Island Yankees ‘shocked’ big-league team dumped them

    The Yankees’ decision to reorganize their minor league system was met with anger from another former affiliate on Monday. After Trenton Thunder owner Joseph Plumeri said the Yankees
  • Music stars from COVID-19-infected states get pass on NYC quarantine rules for VMAs

    Music stars from COVID-19-infected states get pass on NYC quarantine rules for VMAs

    When music’s biggest stars descend on New York for the Video Music Awards this week, NYPD cops will show up to check out the shows. But they won’t be judging the talent. Officers in the NYPD’s TV/Movie unit will see if the performers and their entourages are wearing masks and staying socially distant, city officials …
  • Dave Chappelle: ‘F–k everybody in Staten Island except Wu-Tang Clan’

    Dave Chappelle: ‘F–k everybody in Staten Island except Wu-Tang Clan’

    Don’t expect to see Dave Chappelle ferrying to Staten Island any time soon. In a new Netflix stand-up special, “8:46” that dropped for free Friday night via YouTube, the comedian scorches the city’s smallest borough while doing a slow-burn on George Floyd, police brutality and the killings of African Americans. “You watch one shooting after …
  • What ‘King of Staten Island’ doesn’t reveal about Pete Davidson’s life

    What ‘King of Staten Island’ doesn’t reveal about Pete Davidson’s life

    Pete Davidson’s destiny was set when he was a kid. His father, Scott, a firefighter with the FDNY’s Ladder 118 in Brooklyn Heights, was a big fan of standup comedy. “[Pete] saw that standup made his father happy,” Cris Italia, Pete’s former manager, told The Post. Years after Scott died on 9/11 — when Pete …
  • Amazon workers sue over lax workplace policies in coronavirus crisis

    Amazon workers sue over lax workplace policies in coronavirus crisis

    Staten Island Amazon workers sued the company over its handling of the coronavirus crisis, saying lax workplace policies put them at risk of catching the deadly disease. The federal lawsuit aims to hold Amazon legally accountable for what workers say are insufficient efforts to protect them from the coronavirus, which has reportedly killed at least …
  • SI Yankees in serious trouble as politicians plead to save them

    SI Yankees in serious trouble as politicians plead to save them

    The Staten Island Yankees, their prized affiliation with the reigning AL East champions in serious jeopardy, received public support from local government officials on Monday in an attempt to survive the imminent downsizing of Minor League Baseball. Congressman Max Rose, whose district includes all of Staten Island as well as a piece of Brooklyn, and …
  • ‘Sammy the Bull’ Gravano, daughter Karen in cast of new docuseries, ‘Families of the Mafia’

    ‘Sammy the Bull’ Gravano, daughter Karen in cast of new docuseries, ‘Families of the Mafia’

    Omertà doesn’t mean anything to these former mob households. In “Families of the Mafia,” a new docuseries premiering Thursday at 9 p.m. on MTV, four Staten Island broads formerly associated with La Cosa Nostra attempt to stop their children from making the same mistakes they did. Cameras followed the wiseguys over two years, which will air …
  • Karen Gravano is back on MTV with ‘Families of the Mafia’

    Karen Gravano is back on MTV with ‘Families of the Mafia’

    Karen Gravano is back on MTV with “Families of the Mafia,” a remodel of the short-lived show “Made in Staten Island.” “Made in Staten Island,” followed Gravano, her daughter Karina Seabrook and her friends, premiered in January 2019 to the dismay of local Staten Islanders, who started a Change.org petition to stop it. Gravano, 47, …
  • Amazon faces another NYC warehouse strike as dozens of workers have coronavirus

    Amazon faces another NYC warehouse strike as dozens of workers have coronavirus

    Amazon is facing its second labor strike at a Staten Island warehouse where workers fear more than two dozen people have come down with COVID-19, according to labor groups who issued an advisory about the noon action. Workers at the Bloomfield distribution center, called JFK8, are walking off the job at 12 p.m. on Monday …