The Staten Island Business Council (SIBC), a networking group, donated $1,254 to the JCC Lucille and Jay Chazanoff Sunrise Day Camp during the first installment of its continuing “Success Series” at the Vanderbilt in South Beach. For those who aren’t aware, Sunrise Day Camp is a free six-week summer day camp for children with cancer […]
Achievements
SIBC Member Peggy Torres Becomes Staten Island’s First Female Auto Inspector
“Women drivers” are a road hazard because they are too busy applying mascara using the rear-view mirror. And parallel parking? Forget about it. Yeah, Peggy Torres knows all the stereotypes. The 49-year-old Tottenville resident is just too busy defying them to let such outdated cliches run her down. She earned her rare spot in a “boy’s club.” According to 2017 U.S. Department of Labor statistics, fewer than 2 percent of […]
Staten Island optician has a vision for success
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — While Victoria Rose Nieto, 32, was attending St. Joseph Hill Academy in Grasmere, she worked part-time at Pildes Optical in New Springville. “I would go after work in my Hill uniform, which the patients really got a kick out of,” she said, noting she also worked there after earning a bachelor’s […]
Cee-Jay Real Estate Development Corp Honored
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – The Staten Island Chamber of Commerce honored the borough’s best design and construction at its 53rd annual Building Awards on Friday at the Hilton Garden Inn in Bloomfield. In an encore performance, WCBS-TV’s meteorologist Lonnie Quinn emceed the event. “There’s just something fun about the people of Staten Island that keeps bringing me back,” […]