Here's a regularly updated group of stories of interest from the New York Metro area, frequently with links to other news sources.
03/09/2019 - 20:54
Updated 31 weeks ago
Coler, a long term care facility embedded in New York City's Health & Hospitals network, is at least as unique as the Roosevelt Island community in which it forms the northernmost neighborhood. Its sui generis nature may be its most vulnerable characteristic.
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03/04/2019 - 21:56
Updated 32 weeks ago
It's becoming routine with RIOC - major inconveniences on very short notice, often aggravated by RIOC taking weekends off while life on Roosevelt Island continues, and callous disregard for our neediest residents.
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03/03/2019 - 15:37
The National Weather Service issued a Winter Storm Warning for New York City and surrounding areas, effective at 1:00, this afternoon, although precipitation, as rain, is not expected before 4:00. Moderate to heavy wet snow is perilous, but for us, the timing couldn't be better.
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03/03/2019 - 09:45
Updated 32 weeks ago
Each year during March, Women's History Month, State Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright hosts a celebration in which she honors Women of Distinction within her district. For 2019, five Roosevelt Islanders are among the honorees.
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03/01/2019 - 03:31
Thursday afternoon, RIOC confirmed that the Roosevelt Island Tram will be shut down all day on Sunday, March 3rd. Although they will provide shuttle bus services, hours of support will be reduced.
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02/28/2019 - 18:08
Updated 33 weeks ago
A surprising press release on Tuesday, "Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a proposal to transform the MTA and create dedicated and sustained funding streams for the agency. The proposal includes the joint endorsement of congestion pricing and a plan to reorganize the MTA," avoided most details and left Roosevelt Island in a peculiar position - as we usually are.
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02/27/2019 - 10:29
Updated 33 weeks ago
Just a week ago, RIOC learned that major rehabilitation work on the Tram's infrastructure should start last Sunday for optimum results, giving them just days to adjust. Then, the other shoe dropped, late Friday, forcing them to scramble in preparation. Results were better than they seemed in real time.
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02/25/2019 - 10:00
Roosevelt Island joins Cornell Tech in losing a star as computing pioneer and Cornell Tech's founding Dean Dan Huttenlocher departs for MIT to become the inaugural Dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing on August 1st.
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02/23/2019 - 10:45
Updated 34 weeks ago
Released after hours on Friday in detail indicating they knew about it well before, RIOC announced critical changes in the Tram shutdown plan, just a week into the project, then contradicted themselves less than two hours later, saying the Tram will be completely shutdown Sunday on a single day's notice.
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02/21/2019 - 18:35
Updated 34 weeks ago
Anger, frustration, confusion and dismay blew up this week over, of all things, plans for 2019's Cherry Blossom Festival, leading to multiple resignations from the Common Council, already unable to seat a quorum for its last meeting, and threatening to bring the group to what some believe is a too long delayed crash landing.
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