A former GOP elected official has gone from serving his Staten Island constituents in the City Council to serving them frosty brews in his new outdoor beer garden. Joe Borelli was a member of the Council from 2015 to 2025, and its minority leader from 2021 to 2025, and often ripped lefty politics for driving businesses out of the Big Apple. He’s now gambling on his own venture, called The Garden by Hop Shoppe, in the pedestrian plaza at Staten Island Mall on Richmond Avenue in New Springville. “