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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.

No truth to the rumor…

…that the incoming governor sent the Cesspool Man over to Blackwell House to clean out the swamp. Roosevelt Island is small. Its stories aren’t. Step inside The Lighthouse for the questions, characters and inconvenient details that don’t fit in the...

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…that the incoming governor sent the Cesspool Man over to Blackwell House to clean out the swamp.

The Women Who Held the Ground

The Women Who Held the Ground

Three women tested the limits of what a meeting designed only to discuss “how” would allow itself to hear.

The recording arrived before RIOC posted it. On this island, that usually means they’ll release it when they’re confident nobody still cares. ArchRI simply made a copy available, the way people here tend to do once they’ve stopped waiting for institutions to keep their word. It was the first meeting of what is now meant to be a monthly community advisory group (CAG).

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