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06/27/2018 - 16:37
Updated 1 year ago
The Westview Task Force began a message to tenants, "While progress in discussions between NYS agencies and WV Owners has not been as fast as anticipated, due in part to RIOC President Susan Rosenthal’s extended vacation in June, still a lot has been accomplished and we are told parties are just inches away." Yes, the vacation variation is new, but haven't we heard that one before, more than once, along the troubled road to affordability?
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06/20/2018 - 14:21
Faced with thousands of petition signatures and email complaints, the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation shows all the depth and wisdom of a pack of squirrels in mating season. Perhaps that's unfair to the squirrels, which when overwhelmed with hormones still maintain their amazing dexterity. RIOC's got the flexibility of a tree sloth.
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06/19/2018 - 09:21
Updated 1 year ago
"We're on it," declared RIOC President/CEO last month when we asked her about the obscenity and racism laden graffiti bruising The Prow, an art installation jutting into the East River along the West Promenade, south of The Octagon. Apparently, being "on it" did not mean doing anything about it.
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06/15/2018 - 21:07
Updated 1 year ago
Opinion: Cuomo Thumbs His Nose At Roosevelt Island, Installs Unqualified RIOC Leader was our headline in October, 2016. I was wrong. No, not about Cuomo. Of course he was thumbing his nose at us, as he had before and has since. Yet Susan Rosenthal may be qualified, just not for the job we expect of her. Instead, she executes the Governor's anti-democratic bidding on Roosevelt Island. But that begs the question: where are Kallos, Seawright and Serrano, the people we elected to help and protect us?
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06/14/2018 - 09:39
Updated 1 year ago
Yes, the pending failure of the Westview affordability exit plan represents another piece of Roosevelt Island's community reduced to rubble along the trail of Susan Rosenthal's RIOC leadership, but does the primary blame really fall on her, this time? Maybe not, and in an immediate sense, certainly not. The proximate bad guys are enough to make abused residents sick.
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06/12/2018 - 17:56
Updated 1 year ago
The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation set off alarms on Friday, releasing a statement that their practices in irrigating Southpoint contaminate the Southpoint water supply, making it unfit for drinking. The statement was more disturbing in light of their recent threat to charge the WFF Cat Sanctuary for using the same water.
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06/04/2018 - 09:18
Updated 1 year ago
The affect of not voting has never been fully analyzed because, it's assumed, non-voters - nearly half the population - have preferences similar to voters. But that shaky argument's getting shakier. Research shows it's untrue and may have decided the last presidential election.
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05/22/2018 - 18:55
Updated 2 years ago
With transparency at RIOC sharing qualities similar to those of a double-brick wall, it's difficult to tell if it's incompetence, political posturing, real estate profiteering or something else to blame. What we do know is that RIOC, without public explanation and behind closed doors, trash-canned a deal agreed on after more than a year in negotiation. Time's now running out for preserving a last chance at affordability.
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05/20/2018 - 09:13
Updated 2 years ago
After reading our article on RIOC's imperial takeover of Roosevelt Island Day, some readers asked the obvious question: "Where will the Farmer's Market be that day?" "How will RIOC ruin that?" one wondered. "Five bucks it never occurred to them?" I answered. Did I win my bet?
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05/15/2018 - 09:10
Updated 2 years ago
Last November, we wrote about the new, enhanced level of cluelessness infecting 591 Main Street with RIOC under the combined leadership of Governor Andrew Cuomo and President/CEO Susan Rosenthal. Since, shockers like the outright destruction of the Roosevelt Island Youth Program, a 40 year institution here, demonstrate disregard for community standards. Now, quality of life issues are taking a drubbing with RIOC giving off-islanders' needs preference over residents' as summer approaches.
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