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,...
Art and Artists Dance Past Fumbling RIOC in Winning Fall for Arts
On a chilly autumn day, the art and artists animated Fall for Arts 2022, dancing through and painting over RIOC’s miscues. Powered by the Roosevelt Island Visual Art Association (RIVAA) and Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance (MSTDA), the show…
Roosevelt Island’s Amazing, Shrinking Community Events
Community events bind neighbors, sharing values and everyday life experiences. Shrinking or ending them, especially those bound in tradition, makes little sense, but that’s exactly what RIOC under Shelton J. Haynes did throughout last year. It started with a strange…
Border crisis: Mayor of overwhelmed New York City declares emergency
(The Center Square) – New York City’s mayor on Friday recognized what political officials in southern border states have been trying to explain for more than a year. By Alan Wooten | The Center Square October 7th, 2022 Republished with Permission:…
Final Districting Map Now Sends Roosevelt Island Back Home
After weeks of push and pull, the final district map released yesterday returned Roosevelt Island to its lifetime home in Manhattan. A first map yanked the community, along with chunks of the Upper East Side, into a Queens City Council…
THE GOP’S 2022 PLATFORM IS A GRAB BAG OF NUTTINESS
When not attacking the Muppets, the party’s leading figures have spent the year laying out plans to tax the poor and eliminate Social Security. By Jim Hightower | September 28, 2022 Republished with Permission: The Roosevelt Island Daily News Let me say…
THE COLLAPSE OF LOCAL NEWSPAPERS HELPS HACKS SPREAD LIES
“Critical race theory” panic owes its rise to thousands of fake websites filling the gaps left by real, independent newspapers. By Jim Hightower | October 5, 2022 Republished with Permission: The Roosevelt Island Daily News One noisy piece of the GOP’s culture…
Right-Sizing RIOC Now: Cut Bloated Public Safety Staffing
The common sense cutting of Public Safety staffing has nothing to do with “defunding” the police. Public Safety Officers are not police. We already pay for that in city taxes. But they are an inexcusable drain on Roosevelt Islanders’ personal…
Stymied on OMNY for the Tram, Will RIOC Dip Deep into the Past?
Stymied on OMNY, the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC) may have a solution. Cowed by bullying MTA brass, RIOC’s deep thinkers are rumored to be dipping into transit history for alternatives. As the story goes, they found something they can…
Severe Sleep Apnea Diagnosis Panics Reporter Until He Finds a Simple, No-Cost Solution
The lab technician who watched me all night via video feed told me that I had “wicked sleep apnea” and that it was “central sleep apnea…” Jay Hancock, Kaiser Health NewsOctober 3, 2022 Republished with Permission: The Roosevelt Island Daily…
RIOC Promotes Mary Cunneen, Staffer with a “History.” UPDATED.
Mary Cunneen, then Director of Parks and Recreation at RIOC, got my attention in 2018 when I ran into two women crying on Main Street. Cunneen, they said, was trying to shut down the Southpoint Park Cat Sanctuary. The story…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor