With the RIOC/Hudson-Related duo out, Westview’s management started a street level facelift for the long neglected corridor. Hopes are high that RIOC will follow through with promised repairs to curbs and the street.
The Roosevelt Island Daily News
The Line That Didn’t Land
We’ll listen to you right after we’re done not listening to you.
I stood in the back of Good Shepherd Chapel on the evening of April 15, 2026, at the Steam Plant Demolition Town Hall, watching people adjust scarves and jackets before the meeting began. Benjamin Jones, President and CEO of RIOC, thanked us for attending and, without a pause, said he was “pleased to host tonight’s town hall on the city’s demolition of its steam plant.” The demolition, in other words, was not up for discussion.
