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The Uncaptain of a Nonship

You are un-directing the passage, right? You are non-navigating the ship I feel, in long hysterical driftsRoosevelt Island is small. Its stories aren’t. Step inside The Lighthouse for the questions, characters and inconvenient details that don’t fit in the daily...

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You are un-directing the passage, right?

You are non-navigating the ship

I feel, in long hysterical drifts

     that I am on the formless threshold

          of an enormous room without walls

               and that you are slamming doors

 

David Stone is a New York City based writer whose book 21 Poems was published this year.

Still Searching: Transparency Delayed at RIOC

Still Searching: Transparency Delayed at RIOC

New York’s Freedom of Information Law rests on a basic principle: government records belong to the public unless an agency can identify a lawful reason to withhold them.

New York’s Freedom of Information Law rests on a basic principle: government records belong to the public unless an agency can identify a lawful reason to withhold them. For Roosevelt Island residents, that right matters because RIOC controls public land, infrastructure, transportation, contracts and development without functioning as a locally elected government.

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