Staten Island

After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and in the weeks and months that followed, more than half a million people were exposed to Ground Zero toxins in Lower Manhattan below Canal Street. Despite initial claims that the air was safe to breathe, all of the responders and survivors […]

Hundreds of community members gathered recently on Deserre Avenue in Staten Island for its renaming as Leif Eikeseth Way, in honor of an Army veteran, transit worker, and 9/11 first responder who passed away of cancer after his exposure to Ground Zero toxins. Leif Eikeseth, a 36-year veteran of the New York City Transit, was […]

The mountains of garbage at the Fresh Kills landfill on Staten Island were, in the late 1990s, forecast to one day become New York’s tallest landmark, surpassing even the World Trade Center towers. Little did anyone know that the last loads of debris buried at the site would be toxic rubble from those very same […]

Attorney Mike Barasch was one of hundreds of friends and supporters who turned out for the street naming in honor of FDNY Captain John Graziano on June 4th. “I feel so lucky to have known John and to be welcomed into in his vast circle of incredible friends. I have never known someone so universally […]