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New AVAC Crash Stirs RIOC’s Gross Illiteracy. When Will This End, Governor Hochul?
Another serious AVAC crash happened sometime over the 4th of July weekend. We don’t know much about it because the standard mismanagement gave rise to an utterly illiterate community alert mainly underscoring the mess RIOC has become. Governor Hochul, is…
Broken Again, The AVAC System Is A Model of Consistency
If you love consistency at all costs, the broken again AVAC system on Roosevelt Island must make you feel warm inside. Otherwise, it’s another gross blunder by the murky Team RIOC specializing in pointing fingers and dodging blame. by David…
RIOC Fail: Two Years Later, The AVAC Is Still Broken
The once world-celebrated, unique system for handling trash on Roosevelt Island is still broken. Two years after the jams started and through many excuses – remember the bed frame? – the Shelton J. Haynes Roosevelt Island AVAC system is broken…
Half of Roosevelt Island’s Historic AVAC System Is Now Shut Down
Cobbled together in a rush, a RIOC Advisory said yesterday that the state had ” shut down for emergency work” the entire “east side line.” That means that 17 complexes, from Roosevelt Landings through all of Southtown, are without AVAC service….
AVAC Repair Work Is Underway, Clearing Blocked Tube
Welcome AVAC repair work is underway along the West Promenade near Rivercross. Recurring problems leading to shutdowns have hampered the garbage collection system since last May. RIOC contractor ENVAC is now tackling the worst of it. by David Stone The…
The Newly Renovated AVAC System Breaks Down Again… and Again
Envac Iberia promised RIOC a newly renovated AVAC system in the spring of 2019, and RIOC awarded them $1.7 million for the project. The work would “…improve operations, reduce energy consumption, release more than half the space presently reserved for…
Reverse Nostalgia. AVAC Breaks Down Again After a Single Day
Reverse nostalgia greeted some Roosevelt Islanders for Thanksgiving. Smelly hallways and heaps of black trash bags herald a new AVAC failure, after just one day. By David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News Reverse Nostalgia for Thanksgiving “Please be advised…
RIOC finally updates on the AVAC, and it’s good news…
When RIOC updates on the AVAC, it’s always a little confusing and incomplete. But this time, it’s also mostly good news. By David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News Updates on the AVAC “Please be advised that maintenance work alongside…
As AVAC Crisis Now Worsens, RIOC Retreats In Silence
The AVAC crisis, we learned yesterday, has grown much worse. Now six months long, RIOC predicts as much as another half-year before it’s fixed. The information, of course, did not come from the state agency that never gets it wrong….
For residents bummed over the long broken AVAC, a new round of cryptic messages
The broken AVAC residents have dealt with since May got another spray of cryptic messaging from RIOC. Cryptic because each message contradicts something before it, making the whole mess a mystery of excuses. By David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor