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,...
How safe is your baby food?
Heavy metals including lead, arsenic and mercury can be found in commercial baby foods at levels well above what the federal government considers safe for children, a new congressional report warns. C. Michael White, University of Connecticut Members of Congress…
Fire Outside Duane Reade, 425 Main Street, Roosevelt Island: What We Know So Far
The fire outside Duane Reade started at around midnight, and reportedly, a witness saw it a pile of debris deliberately set aflame. There were no injuries and only exterior damage. Roosevelt Island Daily News The Roosevelt Island Daily News thanks…
The Eviction Moratorium Pause Ended Yesterday. Here’s What You Need to Do
Allison Dikanovic, THE CITY This article was originally publishedon Feb 24 at 12:25pm ESTby THE CITY When the state Legislature passed the Emergency Eviction Act at the end of last year, nearly all eviction proceedings were paused for 60 days….
There was a time reparations were actually paid out – just not to formerly enslaved people
The cost of slavery and its legacy of systemic racism to generations of Black Americans has been clear over the past year – seen in both the racial disparities of the pandemic and widespread protests over police brutality. Thomas Craemer,…
Roosevelt Island Jewish Congregation Presented Queen Esther’s Gambit for Purim 5781/2021
By Janet Falk Purim, a joyous and comedic holiday celebration, filled with fun and parody based on the Biblical story of Esther, was celebrated online by Rabbi Joel Shaiman and the Roosevelt Island Jewish Congregation (RIJC) on Thursday night, February…
Poor judgment again leads the way in PPF recommendations
The Roosevelt Island Common Council’s public purpose fund recommendations for 2021 are riddled with poor judgment. So much so, anyone could have drawn straws at random and done better.
Andrew Cuomo “kissed me on the lips,” says Lindsey Boylan, and now the walls keep tumbling down
“As I got up to leave and walk toward an open door, he stepped in front of me and kissed me on the lips. I was in shock, but I kept walking,” wrote Lindsey Boylan in a Medium post today….
The Roosevelt Island Jewish Congregation Celebrates Purim
A Special Message from RIJC President, Nina Lublin: The RIJC is the oldest, longest-serving active egalitarian congregation on RI, engaging the community for more than 40 years. We are multi-generational, welcoming, & responsive to our unique Island population. …
RIOC, sleazy, cheapskate or just incompetent? stole my work…
RIOC stole my work, a photograph I caught live of my friend, Roy Eaton, on Roosevelt Island Day in 2019. Although not totally surprised, I was, at first stunned, seeing my work in their monthly promotion.
Now, a look back at opening Cornell Tech and Roosevelt Island tilting south
Opening Cornell Tech, the years long trek that hit Roosevelt Island out of the blue, was a lesson in community unity, but it tilted south. In many ways, it ended the original idea of Roosevelt Island as an isolated experiment….
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor