Roosevelt Island COVID-19 reported statistics as of the week ending January 31st, 2021, show our community still staying much safer than the rest of the city.
According to reports, collected by The Gothamist, from the New York City Department of Health, Roosevelt Island has a positivity rate of 2.59%. The overall city rate was 8.31% for the period, and Manhattan had 4.16% positivity.
With 464 residents tested for that week, Roosevelt Island shows little increase in testing or results after the RIOC sponsored Swift Rapid COVID-19 Testing site opened in mid-January.
Stack Work Advances While Answers Do Not
On June 17 and 18, HPD told the first meeting of the Roosevelt Island Steam Plant Demolition Community Advisory Group that smokestack demolition had no projected start date. Residents and the CAG would receive at least five business days’ advance notice once a date was set. Scaffolding around the stacks could not proceed until soil removal and backfill were complete and the area stabilized.
