Here's a regularly updated group of stories of interest from the New York Metro area, frequently with links to other news sources.
11/24/2018 - 10:30
Updated 21 weeks ago
It may or may not really be news, but when the New York Daily News published a story about the possibility of Coler's closing, it raised immediate concerns. But not for the first time.
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11/23/2018 - 09:59
Her life endangered after the Communist regime murdered her friend in 1985, acclaimed Romanian Poet Nina Cassian sought political asylum in the United States and spent the rest of her life on Roosevelt Island. A new film, The Distance Between Me and Me, takes a look at her.
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11/21/2018 - 17:02
Four Freedoms Park Conservancy yesterday announce the winners of its Sketch 4 Freedom Contest: Richard Clements wins first prize with his submission Serene Space. Second place was taken by Hugo Barros Costa. In third place was Robert Miller.
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11/16/2018 - 20:22
Updated 22 weeks ago
If you have doubts about the newest generation of professionals, banish them. Roosevelt Island's Mark Kilpatrick, the Co-Founder of Urban FT, was awarded recognition on the 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 for the Enterprise Technology Category. Here's why.
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11/15/2018 - 20:59
Updated 23 weeks ago
Promising to exceed forecasters' predictions of a dusting, snow started early this afternoon, then picked up momentum as afternoon darkened toward evening.
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11/13/2018 - 18:08
"It is with extreme pride and excitement," said Roosevelt Island's groundbreaking philanthropist and educator Jim Luce, "I announce the Jamaican Minister of Education Hon. Ruel Reid has asked me to join the faculty of the Caribbean Maritime University in Kingston as Adjunct Professor." But that's only part of the story.
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11/12/2018 - 09:56
Last week, the East-West School of Dance presented Kathak Students Showcase, courtesy of Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance, at the Howe Theatre in the Cultural Center. Debi Huggins, a Roosevelt Island resident who teaches at the school, sent an appreciation of our rich culture in performing arts.
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11/06/2018 - 10:10
Updated 24 weeks ago
As the south end of Roosevelt Island was built out with new parks and Cornell Tech's campus, radical change in Long Island City's skyline, just across one channel of the East River, was unmistakable. Soon, a word larger than radical will be needed.
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11/05/2018 - 10:02
Updated 24 weeks ago
The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation's hopes for making the contaminated water crisis it created go away suffered another setback when activist Frank Farance was the featured guest on Decent Life on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network on Saturday. Full video below.
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11/03/2018 - 09:00
Updated 24 weeks ago
It may have been 70 on Friday, but according to NYC Ferry, winter begins on Monday.
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