Here's a regularly updated group of stories of interest from the New York Metro area, frequently with links to other news sources.
01/04/2018 - 09:48
Updated 23 weeks ago
Public schools have already been closed, the leading edge of snow is sliding into New York, and early today, winds are whistling outside our windows, but if what we're hit with this morning's the worst of it, we'll be lucky. And that's not likely to be the case.
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01/01/2018 - 17:55
“September, 2017, Stanford University welcomed its first classes to a new idea campus on Roosevelt Island today…” was the lede I expected to write when I started following this story, six years ago. Cornell changed the storyline, however, and Roosevelt Island.
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12/28/2017 - 09:21
Updated 24 weeks ago
This is not a one day event. Temperatures are expected to be bitter and dangerously low for at least the next ten days. It's an historic event that calls for your special attention to keep yourself and your neighbors safe. NYC Emergency Management has issued a Code Blue Weather Alert.
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12/18/2017 - 17:38
Updated 26 weeks ago
With cultural and business change quickened by computer technology, innovation becomes the key to adjusting on the fly, collaborating to develop better fits and best practices for the world’s challenges. In the first Open Studio at Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island, 20 of 52 active teams showed packed conference spaces not just how, but why they are pulling it off.
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12/11/2017 - 22:35
In the aftermath of today's terrorist bombing near the Port Authority, RIOC Public Safety Director John McManus reached out to remind Roosevelt Islanders that his department is committed to safety. Here's his message to residents and visitors.
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12/10/2017 - 14:38
While carolers sang their way up Main Street, from Subway Station to community Christmas Tree, I decided to sample a Christmas bash on the other side of Rivercross, indoors in the community room. Roosevelt Island Disabled Association President Wendy Hersh invited me to a special event, hosted by Do For One. I couldn't wait.
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12/05/2017 - 19:45
Updated 27 weeks ago
On Roosevelt Island yesterday, December 4th, 2017, two very different ribbon cutting ceremonies marked changes that will better our community and send waves of change around the world. We’re inspired by innovations impossibly large and delightfully small.
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11/29/2017 - 20:47
Possibly because a recent spate of damages to new ferries caused a half-dozen to be taken out of service, NYC Ferry has begun servicing the Astoria line with older boats, including water taxis. An accident on Monday where a ferry got hung up on sandbar added to the problem. Our reader, Rose Klein, shares her photos.
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11/24/2017 - 09:34
Updated 29 weeks ago
"Across the country, Republicans are doing everything in their power to disenfranchise Americans, including putting up barriers to registering to vote. In New York City we are reversing this trend," said Fifth District Council Member Ben Kallos, a Reform Democrat who represents Roosevelt Island. "The City Council just passed my bill to allow New York City residents to register to vote online."
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11/21/2017 - 09:51
Updated 29 weeks ago
The MTA released plans for this year’s Holiday Nostalgia Trains, an annual event that returns vintage cars to tracks from which they were evicted decades ago. Courtesy of the New York Transit Museum and the MTA, 2017 brings back reminders of the way we were, this year on the F tracks, celebrating the first anniversary of the Second Avenue Subway.
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