{"id":1487442,"date":"2022-05-22T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487442"},"modified":"2022-05-22T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T13:00:50","slug":"joe-borelli-renews-bid-to-pull-staten-island-out-of-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-borelli-renews-bid-to-pull-staten-island-out-of-new-york-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Borelli Renews Bid to Pull Staten Island Out of New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-borelli-renews-bid-to-pull-staten-island-out-of-new-york-city%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487442&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Staten Island pol is making another push to turn New York City into the \u201cfour boroughs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican Council Minority Leader Joseph Borelli <a href=\"https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=5656488&#038;GUID=C310E7AC-AFD6-4370-ACC7-BB5F66682D3B&#038;Options=ID|Text|&#038;Search=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">introduced legislation<\/a> Thursday to create a task force to study the feasibility of Staten Island seceding from the left-leaning Big Apple and becoming an independent city.<\/p>\n<p>Borelli \u2014 who co-sponsored a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/11\/08\/staten-island-councilmen-pushing-plan-for-borough-to-secede-from-nyc\/\">similar bill in 2019<\/a> that died in a committee \u2014 told The Post Saturday that he\u2019s hoping for better luck and a \u201cfair shake\u201d with a new mayor and City Council.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/staten-island-generic.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Staten Island previously tried to secede from the city nearly 30 years ago.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images\/iStockphoto<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He also shot down previous criticism that such a move would be too costly for the so-called \u201cforgotten borough\u201d since it would have to fund its own services now provided by New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone who can say definitively what it will cost Staten Islanders is dreaming,\u201d Borelli said.\u00a0 \u201cThey can\u2019t predict the type of government we would elect and how much [it] would duplicate services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mayoral spokesman Fabien Levy made it clear Saturday that Adams wants Staten Island to remain in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMayor Adams is a five-borough mayor, not a four-borough mayor, and Staten Island is as much of New York City as any other borough,\u201d Levy said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/fabien-levy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"911\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/fabien-levy.jpg\" alt=\"Fabien Levy\" class=\"wp-image-22362531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/fabien-levy.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/fabien-levy.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/fabien-levy.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Mayoral spokesman Fabien Levy shot down the idea of a Staten Island secession.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Staten Island previously tried to secede from the city nearly 30 years ago, with borough residents overwhelmingly passing a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1993\/11\/03\/nyregion\/the-1993-elections-staten-island-secession-is-approved-next-move-is-albany-s.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0non-binding secession bill<\/a>\u00a0in 1993. However, that movement was killed in Albany when\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/08\/27\/corrupt-ex-pol-shel-silver-still-freely-roams-nyc-after-conviction\/\">then-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver<\/a>\u00a0(D-Manhattan) refused to vote on the matter without a \u201chome rule message\u201d from the City Council.<\/p>\n<p>Staten Island would need state and city blessing for any secession plan. <\/p>\n<p>With about 475,000 residents, Staten Island is the city\u2019s least populated borough, but on its own it would rank among the most populated cities in the country, even exceeding cities like Miami and Sacramento.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Staten Island pol is making another push to turn New York City into the \u201cfour boroughs.\u201d Republican Council Minority Leader Joseph Borelli introduced legislation Thursday to create a task<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}