Oakwood

By Hilary Russ and Edward Krudy NEW YORK, May 5 (Reuters) - Joseph Szczesny's modest Staten Island home was inundated when Superstorm Sandy slammed into the U.S. East Coast in October. Now six months later, the 63-year-old bridge repairman and his...

SEA BRIGHT, N.J. (AP) — Superstorm Sandy, one of the nation's costliest natural disasters, is giving new urgency to an age-old debate about whether areas repeatedly damaged by storms should be rebuilt, or whether it might be cheaper in the long...

Through the rubble in Oakwood, Staten Island, Sunday, one could hear and witness scenes of humanity. Volunteers from across the region packed the streets in every neighborhood on the island that needed aide. In fact, there really wasn't a block that...

A Long Island taxi driver shot twice by an off-duty Nassau County police officer is facing assault charges after authorities say he attempted to mow down two of their officers. According to officials, Thomas Moroughan was shot early Sunday following a...

Firefighters were on the scene Friday as a three-alarm brush fire ripped through the Oakwood Beach section of Staten Island. According to officials, the blaze broke out some time before 3 p.m. in a wooded area on both sides of Kissam Avenue. The other...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (WPIX) --  Firefighters battled a six-alarm brush fire that broke out Sunday afternoon in the Oakwood section of Staten Island. The flames, which began near Mil Road and Kissam Ave, were being fueled by strong winds, according to...

A Staten Island jury on Thursday convicted a woman of second-degree murder in the deadly shooting of her husband. Janet Redmond-Mercereau, a New York City public school teacher, apparently murdered her husband, FDNY Fire Marshal Doug Mercereau, while...