Business

Many and/or most readers of The Staten Island Advance and its online presence, SILive.com, have no doubt thought for years it was a small family-run newspaper that perhaps was part of a larger chain of […]

U.S. President Donald Trump suspended new federal offshore wind leasing on his first day back in the Oval Office on January 20, 2025 — pending an environmental and economic review. This probably dooms the Arthur […]

Like the end of the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life”, Staten Islanders came out strong to support and buy products from Holtermann’s Bakery on Staten Island — falsely accused by Whoopi Goldberg of denying her […]

Richard and Lois Nicotra are the Vanderbilt’s of our day — except they are good guys. Cornelius Vanderbilt began the Vanderbilt empire by operating a ferry on Staten Island; the Nicotra’s began their business by […]

CSX railroad operates freight train operations on Staten Island — picking up freight off container ships at a ship-to-rail, Intermodal, on-dock terminal at the Howland Hook Marine Terminal in Port Ivory. The Howland Hook facility […]

Imagine people from any era before the 1950’s attending the Staten Island Mall in the dead of winter. An incredible indoor city — warm, comfortable, and alive with people, stores, eateries, easy-to-access bathrooms. The mall […]