A saga the City Department of Environmental Protection strung across the last year, explaining the plug ugly project obstructing the waterfront along the West Promenade, unexpectedly got a fresh update during RIOC's December Board Meeting. It may be the most reliable yet. Or not - we're talking about the City DEP, after all.
Never a fan of the RIRA Column with which past President Jeff Escobar helped the Main Street WIRE build ad space without value, I still found Escobar honest and concerned with facts, if dull as a pile of weeds. But the latest piece, by RIRA Vice President David Lawson, although just as boring, is neither honest nor worried about facts.
What made the RIRA Common Council's recent kiss-off of the Roosevelt Island Senior Center's programs so strange were the contrasts it drew for those who use or are otherwise familiar with the Center's programs. The Carter Burden Network, which got shafted, leveraged its own resources to rescue a broken program that now flourishes, a valued resource for our community's elderly.
After weeks of rearranging travel to manage partial subway shutdowns, my heart sunk when I read, "Dec 14 - 17, 10:45 PM Fri to 4 AM Mon, F trains will be rerouted via the E in both directions between Roosevelt Av and 47-50 Sts because of station enhancements," on MTA's notice. Should I shout out to RIOC, pleading for Red Buses?
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