Look for our calendar soon, where you can see what events are planned in the coming weeks.

Save money! Visit the online Book Exchange

Welcome to the College of Staten Island NYPIRG chapter! We’re the state’s largest non-partisan student directed organization working to foster student leadership through work on campaigns in higher education, mass transit, hunger and homelessness, consumer and environmental protection, and social justice.

These campaigns are a great way to get hands-on experience in a real political setting. The work you do to organize coalitions and events, gain media attention, lobby legislators, and speak in public will allow you to become a better advocate for your own causes and will affect New Yorkers for years to come.

In the 28 years that NYPIRG has been at the College of Staten Island, students organizing with NYPIRG have been successful in many local and statewide campaigns, including:

• Closing the Fresh Kills Landfill;
• Stopping cuts to the TAP financial aid program and fighting tuition increases;
• Securing money for the State Superfund program to clean up toxic waste sites statewide, including nine in Staten Island;
• Creating an online book exchange where students can sell their books for more, and buy their books for less money;
• Passing legislation in the NYC City Council to protect children from the debilitating effects of lead paint poisoning;
• Lobbying the MTA to start a bus line, the S93, which runs from Brooklyn to the College of Staten Island;
• Increasing the New York State minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.15 an hour.

Ben DeAngelis, Project Coordinator
City University of New York
Campus Center 1C- Rm. 219
2800 Victory Blvd.
Staten Island, NY 10314
(718) 982-3109
csi@nypirg.org