Opinion

Is RIRA Really Electing RIOC Board Members?

So, what do you get when you mix Joyce Short's resuscitation of the Maple Tree Group with the former Main Street WIRE's casual relationship with journalism?

You get Opportunity Knocks for Seat on the RIOC Board, Short's fractured headline in the print edition, a deceptive foray into alternative reality.

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Still Your New York

Today, we face an affordability crisis that threatens New York’s very soul. Everywhere I go, people tell me they feel their ability to remain here slipping away. On Monday, I devoted my annual State of the City speech to telling New Yorkers about how we are tackling affordability and to deliver a simple message: This is still your city. 

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Your Turn To Stand Up To Trump

Have you been looking at Washington and wondering, "How did this happen?" If so, here's your chances to do something about it. Throw your grassroots support behind the movement.

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So You Thought the Story About PS/IS 217 and the Trees Couldn't Get Worse... Guess Again

Discouraged by the lack of response from elected and other officials, I'd decided to let the issue of PS/IS 217 thoughtless destruction of healthy trees slide for a while. But in the absence of any oversight from RIOC, Ben Kallos, Gale Brewer or the Board of Education, the school bluntly took another step toward becoming Roosevelt Island's worst neighbor.

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Do You Have a Calling?

Have you got a calling? A mission you feel compelled to pursue? I have. Mine’s writing off-key. The first time I put pen to lined, school paper, my story was about interracial romance between teenagers. In 1961.

Stories began escalating in my head when I was thirteen and have pestered me ever since.

Later, I began to wonder, is the common wisdom true? Is it always wise to follow that call?

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Roosevelt Island Redux: Smoking Pot In Public

Purple haze, all in my brain

Lately things they don't seem the same

-Jimi Hendrix

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New York at the Center of a Nation In Crisis

Late last evening, Mayor Bill de Blasio, leader of the country's largest sanctuary city, responded to President Donald Trump's blanket ban on Muslims from seven countries and denial of the neediest refugees. Trump's executive orders openly favored Christians. We include the mayor's response in full.

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Ron Musto: "Farewell, Fresh Direct"

As the Roosevelt Island Daily reported, many Roosevelt Islanders avoid shopping at Gristedes for various reasons: prices, freshness, store policies, and they now shop at Wholesome Foods, the Deli, or off-island at Whole Foods, Associated or a vanishing number of other supermarkets. And some use delivery services like FreshDirect and PeaPod.

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