RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

Reporting Roosevelt Island since sunrise.

RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

Reporting Roosevelt Island since sunrise.

Sign of the Times: Roosevelt Island, January 20th, 2021

Seen at the subway… Roosevelt Island has plenty of official explanations. Occasionally, one even explains something. The Lighthouse follows the questions, bargains and inconvenient details shaping what happens next. Connect the dots → Introduce Yourself Again Felina, the failing Westside...

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Seen at the subway…

Right here, on this reinforced concrete column…
The WIRE: Two Futures, One Empty Chair

The WIRE: Two Futures, One Empty Chair

David Stone is preparing to take over. Dick Lutz is preparing him. Somewhere between January and July, the same plan begins moving in two directions.

It is December 6, 2015, and David Stone is writing to Dr. Jack Resnick about a chair that will soon be empty. Dick Lutz is preparing to leave the Main Street WIRE, and Stone has been encouraged to ask whether he might replace him. Seven years of covering art, Cornell Tech and questionable practices inside Public Safety have taught Stone how the paper tells an Island story.

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