The Staten Islander News Organization was founded in 2018 to provide Staten Islanders with a choice in local media coverage. We’ve quickly risen to the position of being the island’s #1 TOTALLY FREE news source, with millions of readers monthly.

While the Staten Island Advance, the Newhouse family’s benchmark-setting daily,  has the honor of being Staten Island’s longest-running newspaper, our mission differs from theirs.

We do not cover breaking news like the Advance does.

Our in-depth coverage brings new perspective to unfolding stories. We are the No-Slant News.™

Our news articles keep our readers informed on matters significant to Staten Islanders, while our Community Directory showcases the island in its truest form: an island of hills with vast green space entwining seventy unique neighborhoods and towns,  an amazing place that’s truly  enigmatic to the outside world, indeed a world of its own!

Our guide to Staten Island presents our hyper-local Staten Island culture in all its richness, from our many historical sites and woodlands, to restaurants and shopping.

We aim to present Staten Island as a place of discovery and learning, helping to foster a sense amongst residents that we’re all quite fortunate to live here.

From our Staten Island news platform that you’re on right now, to the Staten Island Community Directory that can be found at the top of our main page, there’s news and information that Staten Islanders and visitors really want to know.

We believe that Staten Islanders should have 100% unfettered FREE access to important news, stories, editorials, and photojournalism that affect their world.

That’s why we’re billed as Staten Island’s [Hyper]Local Paper(less).™ We don’t cut down forests so you can feel guiltless knowing we don’t add to the footprint of environmental damage in bringing news to you.

Staten Island is a unique place; extremely diversified, with many people from different cultural backgrounds, sharing a roughly sixty square-mile piece of land. There’s also a significant range in socioeconomic standing, with residents ranging from those without means, to a thriving working middle class, to areas with the most beautiful expansive homes around.

For the most part, Staten Islanders live in peace with one another. Against all odds, we Staten Islanders find a way to manage, to co-exist. Everyone cares for their neighbors, and religion, race, and everything else matters little. That’s what makes Staten Island unique.