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01/14/2017 - 23:13
If you don't think you live in a foreign country, get in a car and drive twenty-five miles west, then take a look around. You may not be in Kansas, but you're closer to it in spirit than you are to Times Square.
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01/13/2017 - 16:49
There's always a day when you find out that a good number of your neighbors don't share the family or moral values you do. If you're lucky, the discovery won't lead to your being assaulted as a Roosevelt Island mother walking her 3 year old son from the Day Nursery was.
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01/03/2017 - 11:11
Updated 36 weeks ago
Entering 2017, my goals did not include starting up an online community newspaper. But fate has a way of bumping you off a well-worn groove and sending you off on a whole new track while you catch your balance.
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12/24/2016 - 11:34
It's almost impossible to overestimate the profound changes Cornell Tech is likely to ignite on Roosevelt Island. Many are not yet known, but the promise we've seen so far quickened in the last year and will start delivering in 2017.
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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 40 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 40 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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