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03/18/2019 - 09:33
Updated 1 year ago
It's almost as if RIOC has a plan to undermine itself when it has good news to report while flying the flag high when it screws up. It's inexplicable that a State agency with loads of cash and awash in excess personnel can't even get out a simple, significant service announcement. BTW, the Tram and elevator are back at full service. We have to keep repeating it because RIOC won't.
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02/28/2019 - 18:08
Updated 1 year 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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02/26/2019 - 20:04
Updated 1 year ago
"The Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) is pleased to announce that the Cherry Blossom Festival will proceed as planned," according to a Common Council press release. "On Sunday, February 24, the RIRA Common Council passed a motion to support the Cherry Blossom Festival’s fundraising efforts and budget," it added, but something was missing.
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02/13/2019 - 10:22
Updated 1 year ago
RIOC President/CEO Susan Rosenthal cited "the spirit of being good neighbors" in making a change, reducing longtime Octagon Express service in morning commutes to "limited" status, adding a stop and extra commuting time for passengers from the housing complex most distant from primary mass transit.
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01/26/2019 - 10:51
Updated 1 year ago
Sometimes, NFL quarterback Doug Flutie's passes seemed to shoot up out of a shrinking wall of linebackers and lineman, source unseen. At 5' 10", he chaffed at being dissed as too short for the position. He fought back, but it never made him any taller. Roosevelt Island should be able to relate.
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01/03/2019 - 19:15
Updated 1 year ago
While it's untrue that shouting, "Boo!" at them won't knock Hudson/Related's sadly under-designed holiday decorations over in Riverwalk Commons, it doesn't take much more.
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01/02/2019 - 10:24
Updated 1 year ago
On a quiet, cool weekday evening, as I waited for the next Red Bus across from Nisi, five things surprised me, waking me up to a danger I'd missed - as had RIOC. I was, after all, sitting in front of the Public Safety Department with a clear view of Main Street.
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12/18/2018 - 18:21
Updated 1 year ago
This Graduate School Helped Make New York Appealing to Amazon is, more or less, a puff piece using a weak association as a springboard to root for Cornell Tech's adventures in technology innovation. Fair enough. It's a great school and neighbor deserving any spray of hearts tossed its way. But then, the New York Times allowed Roosevelt Island's leading Cornell basher to cut loose as the community's voice.
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11/26/2018 - 10:04
Updated 1 year ago
The raw numbers are terrible by themselves, but when you look at some of the disreputable politicking going on behind the scenes, they come off as an embarrassment for Roosevelt Island, one so bad RIOC needs to throw them out and find another way to handle Public Purpose Fund giveaways.
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11/20/2018 - 09:41
When a nonpolitical entity sprays public relations around, it's a form of advertising. When government does it, it's propaganda. RIOC's HEY SUSAN! operation misuses taxpayer money, but takes a new turn, slamming Island residents who've criticized our unelected representatives.
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