City calls for offshore wind facility dev on Staten Island

New York City’s green energy push is blowing towards an offshore wind facility on Staten Island. The city’s Economic Development Corporation issued a request for proposals last week to build a facility in the Rossville area of Staten Island, the Commercial Observer reported. The deadline for submission is June 1. The wind manufacturing facility will be sited at 2629 Arthur Kill Road across a 33-acre site on the Arthur Kill Channel. The site includes 2,000

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BFC’s Empire Outlets on Staten Island enters foreclosure

Empire Outlets, the ambitious mall on Staten Island, is itself headed for the discount rack. Its developer, Donald Capoccia and Joseph Ferrara’s BFC Partners, and senior lenders Goldman Sachs and Sterling National Bank, have agreed to put the property into foreclosure, the Staten Island Advance reported. The agreement will allow the restructuring of debt on the $350 million shopping center and will cost BFC its ownership of the pandemic-plagued project. The lenders may bid for

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Hobby Lobby lands 42K sf in Staten Island

Hobby Lobby has so far resisted the bright lights of New York City in its 50 years of business, but that’s set to change soon. The arts-and-crafts retailer will open its first New York City location at The Crossing at the Staten Island Mall, the Commercial Observer reported. The chain will be taking over a 42,000-square-foot space previously occupied by Babies “R” Us. The asking rent and lease length were not immediately disclosed. It’s also

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Hope floats: Pete Davidson’s and Colin Jost’s ferryboat allowed to stay past deadline

Thank you ferry much! The city is giving Staten Island-born comedians and Saturday Night Live cast members Colin Jost and Pete Davidson a little more time to find a home for the boat they purchase last month. As part of the deal to take ownership of the ferry John F. Kennedy, which plied new your harbor between St. George and the Battery for nearly 60 years, the yucksters, who paid more than $280,000 for the

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Floating real estate: Colin Jost, Pete Davidson buy Staten Island Ferry boat

They’re on a boat. “Saturday Night Live” regulars Colin Jost and Pete Davidson — arguably the two most-famous Staten Island-bred comedians ever — have purchased a decommissioned ferry boat that for years floated them to and from Manhattan. The more than half-century-old John F. Kennedy, which plied the waters between South Ferry and St. George since 1965, was purchased by the duo — along with comedy club owner Paul Italia — for around $280,000 at

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BFC Partners closes on Staten Island dev site

Almost two years after filing plans for a mixed-use project in Staten Island’s Stapleton neighborhood, BFC Partners has closed on the development site. BFC announced last week it closed on the site at 475 Bay Street, the Commercial Observer reported. The developer received a $99.8 million mortgage from the New York State Housing Finance Agency, which will go toward the project’s projected development cost of $151 million. Plans for a project from the Empire Outlets

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Unforgotten: Pete Davidson’s love letter to Staten Island

 Considering a move to Staten Island? Well, if you like bagels, pizza, cops and pills, it just might be the place for you. That’s (part of) the message Saturday Night Live’s Pete Davidson has in his love letter to his home borough, riffing on the 1991 Marc Cohn classic “Walking in Memphis” and aptly named “Walking in Staten,” which premiered on the sketch-comedy show last night. Joining Davidson — one of two Island natives on

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