In partnership with Senator José Serrano and the Roosevelt Island Residents Association,” Menin’s office announced, “we’ll be distributing at-home Covid-19 test kits and KN95 masks at the Good Shepherd Plaza on Roosevelt Island on Thursday, January 27 at 2 pm.”
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At the June 18 meeting of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation’s Real Estate Development Advisory Committee, President and Chief Executive Officer B.J. Jones acknowledged that there had been no progress finding a tenant for the long-discussed medical space on Main Street. Hudson/Related Realty LLC had told him that filling the space, along with other vacant storefronts, was proving more difficult than expected.










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