STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A Staten Island woman says the city acted “cruelly” when city Sanitation Department workers towed and scrapped a bright green custom truck — a memorial to her late husband — that had stood for years outside his Brooklyn auto shop.
Maria Stylianou, a Ward Hill resident who runs New Millennium Motors in Gowanus, Brooklyn, said the flower-decorated “mini monster” truck was a tribute to her husband, Andreas Stylianou, a beloved longtime mechanic who was killed in 2019 after being struck by moving vehicles outside the business.
“I was given no warning. They said they tagged it and six hours later they towed it,” Stylianou told Staten Island Advance/SILive.com. “It was towed at 5:24 a.m. Wednesday, April 1, which means it was tagged at 11 p.m. No one was there at 11 p.m., and the shop opens at 8 a.m. They didn’t give us a chance.”…