Annual 5K for Staten Island hero soldier halted by de Blasio COVID rules

His battlefield bravery was so heroic that the city named a Staten Island Ferry boat after him.

But it wasn’t enough for Mayor de Blasio to loosen up on his coronavirus rules. The parents of Army Sgt. Michael Ollis, the 24-year-old Staten Islander killed in Afghanistan in 2013 as he shielded a wounded Polish soldier from an insurgent suicide bomber’s blast, say they received a de facto denial this week on a permit for the annual 5k run that honors their hometown hero son.