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,...
CDC study shows a big drop in life expectancy in New York
(The Center Square) – A new report released this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows New York suffered the steepest drop in life expectancy of any state in 2020. Steve Bittenbender | The Center Square contributor…
BILLION-DOLLAR FRANCHISES ARE PAYING WORKERS CHICKEN FEED
One Chick-fil-A store tried paying drive-through workers in chicken sandwiches. It didn’t go over well. By Jim Hightower | August 24, 2022 Republished with Permission: The Roosevelt Island Daily News America’s stringent system of corporate capitalism keeps carving out new depths of…
RIOC Cleaned Up Good Shepherd Plaza. Let’s Keep Going.
Let’s keep going. After weeks of pushing, RIOC pitched in, cleaning up Good Shepherd Plaza and improving the historic space. But why stop there when so many other fixtures can benefit? by David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News “Restore…
Mayor Eric Adams Visits, Connects with Roosevelt Islanders
For the first time, Mayor Eric Adams sat and listened carefully as Roosevelt Islanders shared their concerns. State Assembly Member Rebecca Seawright arranged the meeting and sat in as moderator while Adams’s leadership skills took center stage. by David Stone…
Affordable Art Weekend at Gallery RIVAA
Come and visit us at Gallery RIVAA for our Affordable Art Weekend coming up this Friday evening from 6-9 pm, Saturday and Sunday from 11-5pm August 26, 27, and 28, 2022 with arts and crafts. Your purchases go toward supporting…
Jerrold Nadler Defeats Carolyn Maloney, With Dan Goldman and Yuh-Line Niou in Race Too Close to Call
Fifteen-term U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler won the Democratic primaries in a hotly contested race for Congress in Manhattan while a major Manhattan/Brooklyn race for an open congressional seat remained too close to call Tuesday night, in the second of two…
NYC Subway Beauty and Grit: Passing, Brighton Beach
At the elevated NYC Subway Station in Brighton Beach, beauty and grit is the theme in Passing. This joining of seemingly contradictory effects creates an image greater than either. Fine art photographer Deborah Julian captured the natural urban landscape. by…
Roosevelt Islanders Turn Out in Force at Districting Hearing
A City Council districting hearing last evening got a vocal, red force of Roosevelt Islanders intent on reversing preliminary maps moving the community into a Queens-based City Council District. Organizers arranged a private bus for bringing residents to the hearing….
Inept or Uncaring? Why Won’t RIOC Give Us Safe Crosswalks?
The problem of safe crosswalks on Roosevelt Island was forced on me last week when I barely escaped being hit twice. And I witnessed a narrowly missed tragedy at the community’s most dangerous crosswalk, one routinely ignored by RIOC’s Public…
Interesting Fact #12: There is More Life Underground Than Above It
The closest and probably least known form of life underground is the fungal web that connects trees and other aboveground life forms like a kind of internet in the dirt. It’s colloquially known as the “Wood Wide Web.” by David…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor