Topic: Julissa Ferreras

New law makes choking someone a felony

A new law that makes choking someone a felony could spark the first citywide crime increase in 20 years, police records show.. . Crime has been...
Last year at this time, Polish immigrant Edyta Katsanos was in a bind. She couldn't afford a lawyer but needed to file paperwork to become a...

Hearing sheds light on suicide crisis

Life as one of few Puerto Ricans in her largely white school drove Erin Mercado, 16, to start cutting her wrists and downing pills.. . For 14...

Editorial: None of her business

You know who thinks she's the best person qualified to know how the city's Health and Hospitals Corp. should come up with $1.2 billion worth of...
The Bloomberg administration is infuriated over a Manhattan judge's decision to block the layoffs of 150 hospital workers, arguing the ruling...

Editorial: That's the ticket

Politicians just can't break the habit of exempting themselves from the laws they pass to keep the little people in line.. . A galling example was...

City Council Winners: Mitchell, Ulrich, Ferreras

Ken Mitchell edged out Debi Rose by just 34 votes in the Staten Island City Council special election yesterday, according to the unofficial results from the Board of Elections.The B.O.E. counted 4,130 votes for Mitchell and 4,096 ...

Ferreras Fired Up Over Robocalls

After campaigning at a senior center with mayoral candidate and Comptroller Bill Thompson this morning, City Council candidate Julissa Ferreras explained why she's so upset at the tactics of her opponents: "There's an automated call of a woman's voice ...

Mud

Here's a campaign mailer from City Council candidate Julissa Ferreras, which accuses an unnamed male opponent of throwing mud at her. It also works as a subtle reminder that she's the only woman in the race. But in terms of ...
The leading candidate in the February 24 special election for the vacant City Council seat in Jackson Height, Julissa Ferreras, did not get matching funds from the Campaign Finance Board, which distributed more then $130,000 to the other three candidates. Ferreras ...