STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 A video provided to the Advance\/SILive.com shows an unknown individual walk up to a home in Oakwood and remove a \u201cKeep Christ in Christmas\u201d sign. <\/p>\n
A short time late the same sign was found in a nearby storm drain, according to the homeowner\u2019s son.<\/p>\n
The owner of the sign is Antoinette Mirando, 69, who lives at the intersection of Peter Avenue and Hylan Boulevard.<\/p>\n
Her son, Salvatore, 29, also a resident of Oakwood, shared what he described as a \u201cwild\u201d video, which was recorded around 1 p.m. on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n
The footage shows an individual wearing a long green\/gray winter coat with gray hair. The person casually walks up to the camera, situated beside the entrance to Antoinette\u2019s residence, turns to the left, and begins doing something off camera by the front door.<\/p>\n
The person then walks away with a white \u201cKeep Christ in Christmas\u201d sign with the depiction of the Nativity of Jesus Christ. The individual can then be seen turning away from the door, sign in hand, and walking back toward the street.<\/p>\n
The individual crosses toward Hylan Boulevard and then moves out of view behind shrubbery.<\/p>\n
Found in sewer, son says<\/p>\n
Salvatore was five minutes away from his mom\u2019s house when he got the notification that someone was at her door. When he arrived, he learned that someone took the sign and it was caught on camera.<\/p>\n
He went out to see if he could recover either the sign or its metal spike.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went to the sewer to go look for the metal and then I looked down in the sewer and the sign and the metal were both in the sewer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Salvatore Mirando, a resident of Oakwood, found his family’s “Keep Christ in Christmas” sign in a storm drain at the intersection of Peter Avenue and Hylan Boulevard in Oakwood shortly after it was stolen on Dec. 31, 2025.(Courtesy of Salvatore Mirando)<\/p>\n
Although he made an effort to recover the family\u2019s sign from the drain, the son could not retrieve it.<\/p>\n
Antoinette lives just around the corner from St. Charles R.C. Church, where she is a parishioner. Her son expressed that he was glad the person simply targeted the family\u2019s sign and not the church\u2019s own nativity display.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish I knew what possessed them to do something like that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n