‘This is a turning point in battle’: Healthcare workers at RUMC start to receive the coronavirus vaccine
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
Richmond University Medical Center staff prepare syringes with the coronavirus vaccine on December 15, 2020.Staten Island Advance/Jordan Hafizi
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Dr. Jay Nfonoyim was the first to be inoculated at the West Brighton hospital.
“This is not going to be the end of it,” he said. “It’s just a very good beginning. With this, we can continue building upon it and continue doing the good things we have been doing.”
Nfonoyim noted that while some people are apprehensive about getting vaccinated because it is new, the technology that created it has been around for decades.
Car careens into Rosebank waterfront
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
One person was transported to the hospital after a car careened into the waterfront in Rosebank. (Photo courtesy of Steve S.)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. A car careened into the waterfront in Rosebank Tuesday afternoon, the collision sending one person to the hospital.
Emergency personnel responded to a call for a motor vehicle accident at 4:22 p.m. in the vicinity of Edgewater Street and Hylan Boulevard, according to an FDNY spokesman.
One person was transported to Richmond University Medical Center in West Brighton, the spokesman said.
The condition of the patient or any further details were not immediately available Tuesday night.
Coronavirus data: Hospitalizations continue slow uptick; overall deaths unchanged in 24 hours
Updated Dec 15, 2020;
Posted Dec 15, 2020
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Coronavirus (COVID-19) hospitalizations on Staten Island continued a slow uptick Tuesday as 278 new positive cases were reported across the borough.
City Health Department data published Tuesday at 1 p.m. also showed 1,188 borough residents are believed to have succumbed to the disease, which was unmoved from yesterday’s total.
However, confirmed deaths dropped from 994 on Monday to 980 on Tuesday, the data showed a decrease of 14. Meanwhile, “probable” deaths increased by 14 from 194 on Monday to 208.
A death is classified as “probable” if the decedent was a city resident who had no known positive laboratory test for the coronavirus, but the death certificate lists “COVID-19” or an equivalent as a cause of death.
‘COVID stole our dad and Pop-Pop from us’ Livingston mom hopes for a vaccine soon
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
Posted Dec 16, 2020
Mary Beth Russo and her dad, Bob Meyer, who succumbed to COVID in March. (Courtesy Mary Beth Russo)
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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. Everyone knew him as “Bob,” and Nov. 14 would have been Robert Meyer’s 70th birthday. Instead, COVID-19 stole him from his daughter and four grandchildren on March 28.
Today, less than two weeks away from Christmas, those he left behind his only daughter MaryBeth Russo, her husband Michael, and their four children, Michael, Maggie, MaryKate, and Matthew are still reeling from their loss.
Man pepper sprays Staten Island cashier in face, steals entire cash register
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Officials released surveillance images of the attacker.
It happened Tuesday, December 8 at 4:10 a.m. at the deli on Forest Avenue in West Brighton.
Police say the person sprayed the pepper spray right into the face of the 53-year-old cashier, then removed the cash register before running away on Hart Avenue.
The victim suffered pain and redness to his eyes. He was treated at Richmond University Medical Center where he was later released.
Anyone with information in regard to the identity of this individual is asked to call the NYPD s Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).