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,...
Alternative COVID Testing Sites: What We Can Do Now Instead of Waiting in Line
After four hard days in line, it’s time to think about Alternative COVID Testing Sites. Hundreds of Roosevelt Islanders flocked to Good Shepherd Plaza for COVID testing. Although many were eager and ready, there were a few problems that left…
Season’s First Snowfall for Roosevelt Island
It was not predicted, and if you slept late, you might have missed it, but our season’s first snowfall blanketed Roosevelt Island overnight. It was light, but beautiful. By David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News Our Season’s First Snowfall…
The Coler Auxiliary, Gifts and Cheer to Our Disabled Neighbors
When the holidays come, our neighbors to the north have no better friends than the Coler Auxiliary, Roosevelt Islanders stepping up again, this year. The Roosevelt Island Daily “The Coler Auxiliary funds annual gifts for all the residents,” says long…
Something New: “Local Tipster” Selling Stickers About and For Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt Islander Jess Klein is selling locally oriented sticker sheets on Etsy. Take a look here. Click here to see Local Tipster’s shop on Etsy. More from the Roosevelt Island Daily
COVID Surge Forces a Pause in All CBN/RI Senior Center Programing.
The Roosevelt Island Daily News “We are closing the Senior Center to all programing until further notice” said Senior Center director Lisa Fernandez. The congregate lunch program will distribute grab-n go-meals 11:30-1:00 daily Case assistance will be available remotely and…
Holiday Best Wishes from Westview
One of Roosevelt Island’s biggest stories in 2021 was Westview’s reaching the final stage of privatization, welcoming home ownership and income stabilization to the community. Learn more about Westview here.
Eunice Folla, 30 Year Roosevelt Islander, Died This Month
Eunice Tazuko Tamashiro Folla was a force of life,” her family says on a memorial page, “a radiant and joyful presence who devoted her life to loving, giving and educating – loving her children, her family, and her community, and…
The beat goes on with third day of COVID testing and vaccines
In a third day of COVID testing and vaccines, Roosevelt Islanders waited again in a long line, the length of Good Shepherd Plaza. It was a microcosm of what the recent infection surge brought to New York as well as…
REALITY CHECK: MAGNIFICENT THINGS HAPPENED IN 2021
Feeling bleak? Well, 2021 wasn’t all bad. In fact, mainstream media — hooked on negative clickbait — didn’t tell you, but magnificent things happened in 2021. Here are a few astounding things ordinary people won at home and abroad. By Peter…
“Blue Light” new photographs by Anne-Marie Dannenberg at the Octagon
New photographs by RIVAA artist Anne-Marie Dannenberg add striking colors and ingenious designs to the walls of the Octagon Gallery, in the lobby at 888 Main Street on Roosevelt Island. The Roosevelt Island Daily News With COVID variants surging, a…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor