It's Wednesday, August 15th, 2018

It's Wednesday, August 15th, 2018

TRANSIT:  F Trains, Tram and NYC Ferry operating as scheduled for Roosevelt Island. Red buses are on a weekday schedule. 

NOTE: All week, late nights from 9:45 p.m until 5:00 a.m. south bound F Trains into Manhattan bypass Roosevelt Island.

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Island News

A new day for Westview and Roosevelt Island affordability.

State Finally Gets Around To Announcing Westview Deal Signed in July

08/13/2018 - 08:59 Updated 2 days ago

July 31st, all parties signed a deal formally exiting Westview from Mitchell-Lama protections and escorting the complex into 30 new years of affordable housing. The State finally announced it yesterday in a statement giving most of the credit to Governor Andrew Cuomo and his leadership, a campaign theme. It was something like praising an absentee landlord for collecting rent.

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Opinion

Southpoint Park: are irrigation systems fouling public water supplies?

Transparency Absent as RIOC's Water Quality Tests Are Wasted

07/28/2018 - 21:33 Updated 2 weeks ago

So far, RIOC's treated fears about contaminated water fountains like a speed bump to be rolled past and forgotten. They tipped their hand with the ill-considered hiring of Healthy Building International Inc., a firm specializing in indoor environmental quality, to run tests, and ignoring serious questions from residents. Now, although that effort's been rejected by unnamed "health officials," we're nowhere near being out of the woods.

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Features

Profiles, a 1995 Newspaper Documents A Different Roosevelt Island

Profiles, a 1995 Newspaper Documents A Different Roosevelt Island

08/08/2018 - 20:56 Updated 5 days ago

No one here has to be told that Roosevelt Island is a unique kind of place, always activist, separate but also part of Manhattan, but a look through Profiles, a publication from 1995, suggests that periods of Island development carried with them a one of a kind flavor all their own. This one reflects a state of mind before the crowning of Jerome Blue as RIOC president did a number on local identity.

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Around New York City

NYC Ferry Astoria Route serves Roosevelt island

Wednesday, NYC Ferry Changes Schedules for Roosevelt island and More

08/14/2018 - 20:32 Updated 12 hours ago

Wednesday, August 18th, is a big day for NYC Ferry. It's new Soundview Route opens, bringing service to The Bronx for the first time. The Astoria Route, serving Roosevelt Island, is being adjusted at the same time.

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