STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Jeremy Claudio, a 34-year-old Stapleton man, is being remembered adoringly by family and friends as a “gentle giant” and as someone who was “everything to everybody,” following his death in a motorcycle crash Saturday afternoon in Clifton.
The eldest of four siblings and 18 cousins, Claudio made Staten Island his home when the family relocated from Brooklyn in 2008.
“He was just loved by so many different people,” his brother, Bernard Gardner, a police officer in Atlanta, told the Advance/SILive.com. “No matter what walks of life they came from, he just was pure.”…