The vessel, with eight adults and two children on board, had been on its way to Guernsey but diverted to the closer island of Jersey due to rising winds.
The storm destroyed sandy stretches of land along the Jersey shore and gave many on Staten Island their own Katrina moment, with over 100 people confirmed dead (over 1, 000 people died in Hurricane Katrina in 2005) and roughly one million people still without power in the regions of southern Manhattan, the Island and parts of New Jersey.
To add to New York's island woes, on April 1st a Supreme Court arbitrator recommended that a 170-year dispute with New Jersey over control of Ellis Island, the immigrant gateway that New York has long thought of as its own, should be settled by dividing the island in two with New Jersey getting most of the land.
But on Tuesday, a U.S. Supreme Court-appointed special master recommended that most of Ellis Island be given to the state of New Jersey.
Unless you face a serious hardship, like many residents of Staten Island, the Rockaways and parts of New Jersey who have lost their homes, it behooves you to make the effort to go into the office or to find a way to work from home.
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We thumbed our phones trying to getting a signal, exchanged texts and surfed Twitter for storm updates, both for our location in lower Westchester County in New York, and for the traditional summer stomping grounds of Beach Haven, New Jersey, a spot of barrier island off the pine barrens where my toes have met sand and salt since the 1960s.
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Hemingway found Bimini, but Harold Hartman, onetime owner of a New Jersey box company, made the tiny island of Staniel Cay his adopted home.
Blizzard warnings were posted for parts of New Jersey and New York's Long Island, as well as portions of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, including Hartford, Conn.
Blizzard warnings were posted for parts of New Jersey and New York's Long Island, as well as portions of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, including Hartford, New Haven, Conn.
The duties of Miss Alderney, in representing the island, include being part of the Alderney Week Calvacade and Jersey's Battle of Flowers.
Within days after the Wall Street district erupted in flames and fallout, thousands of traders were back at their desks--but in midtown Manhattan, New Jersey and Long Island City (a part of New York City).
He has since had requests to help Rhode Island, New Jersey, and the country of Spain do what Michigan did.
Sports receiving the money must to create a plan to encourage more people to play their sport and put on events to raise the profile of their sport and the Island Games in Jersey in 2015.
Nine states of emergency have been called in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland and District of Columbia.
In turn, the States of Jersey put more emphasis on promoting the island as an upmarket destination.
Whitman said she plans to appoint a special commission to analyze what to do with the New Jersey's 22 acres of Ellis Island.
Islanders are being warned about an increased number of bee swarms in Jersey, according to the island's Bee Keepers Association.
Other island destinations on the route include Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Lewis and Shetland.
Val Cameron, the head of Jersey's Health Protection Service, said the island could challenge processed food manufacturers that do not meet certain standards under planned new legislation.
Madeira-born Ronaldo then paid his own tribute to the victims of the floods and mudslides on the Portuguese island by lifting his jersey to reveal a white t-shirt with "Madeira" written on it.
Unusually dry, warm and windy weather helped trigger a rash of wildfires across the region Monday, causing traffic and transit problems, consuming hundreds of acres of forest in South Jersey and forcing evacuations on Long Island.
Those trailers, in turn, can only cross from New Jersey to Staten Island by completely closing the westbound lanes of the Goethals Bridge, moving one at a time over the span at a maximum speed of 5 mph, Ms. Burtis said.
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Over the next two months, the DOI will identify WEAs off the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Virginia.
That includes Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, New York, the District of Columbia, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland.
The court ruled Tuesday that New Jersey had territorial rights to about 22 acres of the historic island, mostly where it was enlarged with landfill.
Jersey Tourism said the total number of people coming to the island between January and July this year was 24, 500, which was nearly 4% down on the same period in 2011.
Hess Corp. deployed generators to many of its stations after power went out, and Chief Executive John Hess said Friday that 177 of the 186 Hess stations in New York City, Long Island and New Jersey are open.
The New Jersey Marathon and the Long Island Marathon, each expected to draw thousands of runners and tens of thousands of their supporters, are the first major races in the region since two men allegedly set off bombs April 15 in Boston, killing three and injuring more than 200.
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Both arrests were the result of Operation Hornet, Jersey Police's efforts to tackle burglary in the island.
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