Local reaction to the death of George Floyd, a black man who reportedly gasped for air and pleaded for his life while his neck was constrained by a white police officer during an arrest in Minnesota, has sparked outrage. The case has many activists drawing comparisons to Eric Garner’s 2014 death in Tompkinsville, where a…
COVID-19 triggered a tsunami-like wave of cancellations and event postponements which started in March with what would have been the City’s 259th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade. Since then, events small and large on Staten Island haven’t been held. Most recently, it was announced that the 50th running of the New York City Marathon, scheduled…
Like those in countless other industries, real estate transactions were ground to a halt when New York was forced to hit pause to slow the spread of Coronavirus. For Tom Crimmins, the owner of Tom Crimmins Realty, Ltd., selling homes presented challenges without face to face interaction to help drive deals. “We were unemployed, in…