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09/07/2016 - 00:00
Updated 1 year ago
According to an article in the New York Times, slanted to support it with little effort at balance, the Brooklyn Queens Connector is moving forward. It's a bad idea, not just for Roosevelt Island, but Brooklyn and Queens, wasting money when better options are available.
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09/01/2016 - 00:00
When the three stapled pages appeared in a loose roll near our door, I was afraid management at Roosevelt Island’s Manhattan Park wised up, determined to make a case for themselves in the sub metering dispute. But they surprised me.
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08/28/2016 - 00:00
Updated 1 year ago
If you caught Eileen Gardiner’s critical look at Westview and the Taskforce popularly elected to guide residents during the transition out of Mitchel-Lama, did you see a reflection on Roosevelt Island life and the way it's changing?
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08/24/2016 - 00:00
Updated 1 year ago
The fate of Westview, last of Roosevelt Island’s Mitchell-Lama buildings, is shrouded in mystery. Over fifteen months ago, on May 1, 2015, tenants received a proposed offering for a co-op conversion — hereafter referred to as the “Red Herring.”
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08/23/2016 - 16:31
On the Tram, at RIRA meetings, sunbathing on the Meditation Steps, you used to see Jim Kaufman everywhere on Roosevelt Island, but suddenly he was gone. I searched and asked around and still haven't found what became of him. But what did turn up churned memories back into view, reminders of a critical moment that got past us, under the radar.
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08/22/2016 - 00:00
Updated 1 year ago
Last week kicked off with a surprise from Manhattan Park, an almost comical misstep and ended with more evasion and denial but with a dark cloud on the horizon.
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08/15/2016 - 00:00
Updated 49 weeks ago
An open letter to the Republican Party from an old friend: You've done so little good for us in the last twenty years, please show your heart's in the right place and let your leader, Donald Trump, carry on.
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08/04/2016 - 00:00
Updated 46 weeks ago
In a Roosevelt Islander blog post, Publisher Rick O'Conor asked, "... at what point will the condition of Blackwell House be such that it can be used for some purpose other than just staring at it?" It was a good question, posed in April, 2011. Five years have passed without an answer.
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08/03/2016 - 00:00
In an extraordinary American year, it's important to stand up early and often on behalf of the most outstanding candidate running for President in my lifetime, Hillary Clinton.
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08/01/2016 - 00:00
Updated 1 year ago
Way back in 1950, UNESCO issued a statement that there is no biological basis for racial categories. Yet we see race everywhere in our news media, in our neighborhoods, in our culture. Why?
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