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,...
Keeping New Yorkers and Their Pets Together in Tough Times
More and more people are giving up their pets to city-run shelters due to housing insecurity — and in response, the city’s not-for-profit animal care and control agency has hired social workers to help New Yorkers keep their best friends. …
RIOC Silently Adds a New AVP Akeem Jamal
Without notice, RIOC added Akeem Jamal to its executive roster in August. According to his LinkedIn Profile, Jamal is now Assistant Vice President, Communications & Public Affairs at the state agency. The Roosevelt Island Daily News Jamal has been the…
Cop Who Bragged About Ripping Down Mask to Pepper Spray Protester Escapes Discipline for Use of Force
The NYPD officer who ripped down the face mask of a Brooklyn protester and pepper sprayed him in the face in the early days of the George Floyd protests in New York City — and who later bragged to colleagues…
New Yorkers poised for enormous relief from Biden’s plan
(The Center Square) – New York’s Democratic U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer said more than 10% of New Yorkers will receive some relief from President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program announced last week. By Steve Bittenbender | The Center Square contributor 1 hr…
How the Women We Elected Can Help Roosevelt Island
As the next year rolls out ahead of us, the women we elected have a remarkable chance for helping Roosevelt Islanders. Couple that with independence and authority we haven’t seen in our public officials in years and you’ve got potent…
RIOC Communications. Or How To Shoot Yourself in the Foot
RIOC communications nosedived last week, exposing a lack of awareness or skills that serves no one well. At this sorry point, it stops the bunkered state agency from getting credit even when it does well. by David Stone The Roosevelt…
Gov. Abbott accelerates busing of foreign nationals from southern border to New York City
(The Center Square) – Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is accelerating the state’s busing to New York City of foreign nationals who’ve entered the U.S. through the southern border. By Bethany Blankley | The Center Square contributor Aug 27, 2022 Republished…
Franz Marc Never Painted Again: The Case Against War
Because he died so young – only 36, still in the upward arc of his art – you won’t find a lot of Franz Marc’s creations in museums and galleries. But a painting in the modern art rooms in the…
A Roosevelt Island Fall for Arts Festival in 2022…?
A Fall for Arts Festival for Roosevelt Island this year grew increasingly unlikely as prior years’ planning and calls for artists’ dates went by without notice. On RIOC’s outdated website, one page suggests “September 24th, TBC.” But we assume that…
Unraveling the Interplay of Omicron, Reinfections, and Long Covid
The latest covid-19 surge, caused by a shifting mix of quickly evolving omicron subvariants, appears to be waning, with cases and hospitalizations beginning to fall. Liz Szabo, Kaiser Health NewsAugust 26, 2022 Reprinted with Permission: The Roosevelt Island Daily News…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor