12/23/2016 - 11:21
Since our founding in the mid '70s, the Roosevelt Island community excelled at blending ethnic diversity, making room for people with disabilities and sustaining affordability. But we also stepped out with something for which the architects and designers never planned: Art. Our painters and sculptors blossomed late as a group but today make their mark all over the island.
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12/21/2016 - 11:41
They arrive separately at public meetings and share glances you hardly notice. See them active at a hundred events and you may never realize they are married. But one thing's sure - if the meeting involves an important occasion for Roosevelt Island, Ellen or Howard Polivy, maybe both, will be there, looking for ways to offer their talents or insight.
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12/17/2016 - 17:34
A before and after consideration of the Hudson Companies' gift to Roosevelt Island is easy. Take a walk down Main Street to the subway station. Look at its rusted eves with weeds sprouting in them, an exterior more neglected than weatherworn. Now, swing around the back to get a Riverwalk view. You feel like you've exited the Third World and entered a welcoming, modern community.
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12/13/2016 - 21:48
Sometimes, our wealth is best measured by what we give. In those terms, Jim Luce is a very wealthy man, and Roosevelt Island is richer because of him
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12/10/2016 - 11:02
Updated 32 weeks ago
Roosevelt Island institutions have failed to keep up with dramatic changes in who we are. Increases in our Asian population make us younger, and we look at life from exciting new angles.
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12/08/2016 - 11:39
Updated 32 weeks ago
After Dick Lutz's ugly, years long campaigns against the Roosevelt Islander blog, we've come to expect the bullying, but just two days after I had a conciliatory conversation with the WIRE's current listed publisher, Dana Agmon, Lutz's most recent misleading blast took us by surprise.
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12/07/2016 - 10:57
Roosevelt Island would be a different place, if not for Judy Berdy's forty years of nonstop efforts on our behalf.
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12/07/2016 - 10:35
If we didn't already have Frank Farance in our community, Roosevelt Island would have to go out and find one.
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12/05/2016 - 16:04
Since the community's founding, Jack Resnick, MD, has been "the Roosevelt Island Doctor," establishing his practice here and continuing today.
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12/04/2016 - 00:00
News websites are flooded with painful, scary headlines because that's what's considered "news," but in reality, they paint misleading pictures of who we are. Roosevelt Island is no exception, but this series will be. In the spirit of the season, every day until December 24th, the first day of Chanukah and Christmas Eve, we will celebrate a person, group or feature that we consider a special gift to us. We start with the big one: RIOC.
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