With local infections rising and vaccination rates well below neighboring communities, our new Wall of Shame recognizes folks who still refuse wearing masks on public transit. It also puts the blame where it mostly belongs — on RIOC for failing to enforce the very rules they created.
The Roosevelt Island Daily News
Misinformation is widespread, but one fact is clear. RIOC knows the rules but fails to enforce them.
Risks for children are not worth some juvenile demand for living in a community where you ignore the rules you don’t like.
So, shame on RIOC as well the passengers.
Photo from last week provided by a reader.
Three Newspapers and a Broken Water Fountain
In 2018, Roosevelt Island had three local newspapers and no working drinking fountains. Seven years later, one paper had disappeared, one founder was leaving the country and the word “your” was about to receive a much clearer ending.





