David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
Navigating Apps with Changes in Memory: Join Our Study
December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Is Zabar’s New York’s Best?
Zabar’s New York’s, best original neighborhood market, thrives while nearby competitor Fairway goes belly up. The reason is simple. Zabar’s knows what it is and doesn’t get outside itself. Reporting by David Stone for The Roosevelt Island Daily News To…
Future Is Now: WITNY Reborn As Break Through Tech
WITNY became Break Through Tech in January as Cornel Tech’s pioneering effort to bring more women into technology grew national. Reporting by David Stone WITNY, Women in Technology New York, dug in four years ago. The partnership between Cornell Tech…
New Center for Figurative Painting
The Center for Figurative Painting a new “museum/gallery,” as described by artist Simon Dinnerstein, in the heart of Chelsea, New York’s lively art epicenter, opened its inaugural exhibit on February 3rd, 2020. But although the coronavirus pandemic curtailed that exhibit,…
MTA’s Smart Bay Ridge Branch Idea
The MTA’s smart Bay Ridge Branch, diminished in the uproar over Andy Byford’s quitting, is the best new transit idea in a long time. It helps all mass transit riders from Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn. Reporting by David Stone But…
FIGMENT NYC 2020 City of Dreams Pavilion Finalists
FIGMENT 2020 City of Dreams Pavilion got rolling on January 22nd when finalists for the June event were announced. FIGMENT comes to life on June 6th and 7th in Lighthouse Park on Roosevelt Island.
Can Phages Save Us…? Are There Life Saving Secrets?
Can phages save us? Really? From what? First, what are phages anyway and how do their near-magical powers work? Ready for the good viruses? About Bacteriophages… By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small Their full title is a mouthful….
Queens Bus Redesign Meeting Set
A Queens Bus Redesign Meeting is set for February 4th in Long Island City, the closest so far for Roosevelt Island. Showing up and speaking up matters. Be there.
Lucky To Have Her
Lucky To Have Her is Chapter One From the Novel by David Stone You can say I failed. I won’t disagree with you. But life is a story told after the fact. At what did I or does anyone else…
Roosevelt Island Transit: How To Get Where You Want
Roosevelt Island transit choices jumped into focus again, last winter, when the MTA threatened to gut bus service. And followed up with mangling a subway shutdown. Then, the pandemic threw it all out of sync, but as we ramp back…
MTA Bus Plan Fight Rallies
An MTA bus plan fight rallied quickly on Roosevelt Island in the last several days. Efforts rose from multiple directions as news about killing Q102 service spread. Reporting by David Stone A few years back, the MTA severely limited Q102…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor