STATEN ISLAND

Rallies highlight resistance to the city's handling of the migrant crisis.

Co-op and condo boards will benefit from the greening of the city's electric grid.

Daroga Power is installing 48 fuel cells that will cut electricity bills – for free.

Commission will hold a string of hearings citywide, beginning March 12.

When factions fight for control, things can get ugly.

Co-op and condo boards must protect people from “foreseeable” harm.

One proposal would benefit Staten Island and punish Park Slope.

Appeals court upholds barbed street names in controversial condo development.

Streets are named for those timeless real estate staples: greed, trickery, and money lust.

Bank buildings are doing it. Synagogues are doing it. Now a former farm for the aged poor is doing it too: converting to condos.

Last week the New York City Council gave its blessing to a plan to turn a derelict 96-acre campus on Staten Island, known as the Farm Colony, into 344 condo apartments for residents over the age of 55. Thirty-four of the apartments will be set aside as affordable – that is, for families with incomes under about $150,000.

The council approved a plan by the city’s Economic Development Corp. to sell 45 acres to Raymond Masucci, a Staten Island developer, for $1 million. At a cost of $91 million, Masucci will rehabilitate five buildings, tear down five others, and preserve a 112-year-old dormitory as a “stable ruin.” He will also build three six-story apartment buildings and 14 townhouses on a property that was once a working farm for the aged poor.

The Farm Colony closed in 1975 and fell into decline. The new development, inside Staten Island’s first historic district, will be called Landmark Colony.