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,...
Kicking Off Pride Month, NYS Parks Commissioner Erik Kulleseid at FDR Four Freedoms Park
With the all-new “Progress” version of New York’s largest Pride Flag as a background, Commissioner Kulleseid cheered the start of Pride Month in New York State. To The Daily, he emphasized the welcome everyone, without exception, should feel in all…
Old is new. Fay Christian returns to RIOC Board of Directors
After four years away, Fay Christian returns to RIOC’s Board of Directors where she served from 2008 until 2018. Board membership is uncompensated. It requires appointment by the governor and approval by the State Senate, which is expected as early…
Ballet Hispánico at FDR Four Freedoms State Park, Pride Month
Posing in colorful costumes on the steps at FDR Four Freedoms State Park, Ballet Hispánico celebrates Pride Month in 2022. The steps are decorated with the city’s largest pride flag, this year featuring the arrow of progress. The Roosevelt Island…
Same old song as manager Jessica Cerone Exits RIOC
Our sources tell us that Jessica Cerone, long a pillar in RIOC’s Communications Team, quietly stopped coming to work in late April. Paired with also disappeared Erica Spencer-EL, who held multiple management positions, Cerone played a critical role in successes…
AMERICA NEEDS TO SEE THE REALITY OF ASSAULT RIFLE MURDERS
Decades ago, photos of Emmett Till’s murdered body galvanized action for civil rights. Today, disturbing images could do the same for gun control. By Mitchell Zimmerman | June 1, 2022 OtherWords, Reprinted by The Roosevelt Island Daily News In the days since…
Habitat Devastation, Two Years Later, in Southpoint Park
Two summers ago, defying community resistance and overthrowing an approved plan, RIOC devastated the shoreline areas in Southpoint Park. These were the last natural shorelines on Roosevelt Island. Their contractor, Langan Engineering, promised that the displaced species would return to…
Solving the dog problem, saving sanity and money
“You’ll never solve it,” a longtime resident said. She was talking about the Roosevelt Island dog problem, and she was right. Coupling RIOC’s anti-dog policies with its chronic inability at solving problems, the issues fermented for years. Yet, there is…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor