David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
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December 2, 2025
Weill Cornell Medicine seeks older adults with mild memory loss for a study on improving navigation apps. Participation is valuable,...
Dogs: Another Roosevelt Island Battle That Shouldn’t Be
The roots of dog animosity on Roosevelt Island are as deep as the new community itself. Initially, ground leases barred residential building owners from allowing dogs in their apartments. All the WIRE buildings plus Manhattan Park signed on. There was…
RIOC Proposes the Worst Possible Future Dog Run
In his President’s Report at the May, 2022, board meeting, Shelton J. Haynes proposed a new temporary dog run for Roosevelt Island. Dog owners were frustrated, and that evolved toward anger. Haynes appears clueless after five years of dodging dog…
Dog Run Tempers Flared. Then RIOC Did Less Than Nothing
A proposed new, safe and healthy dog run brought opposing groups to a late 2019 RIOC board meeting. What the state agency did next – nothing – led to simmering conflicts over two years later. by David Stone The Roosevelt…
Dog issues prompt a statement out of Shelton Haynes’s bunker
Addressing dog issues smoldering through the last several years, RIOC President/CEO Shelton Haynes said, Residents Association President Rossana “…Ceruzzi has made me aware of growing concerns surrounding dogs that we plan to address immediately.” But evasive as ever, he never…
Civil Disobedience? Pooped Out Residents Ponder Options
In a feisty Facebook thread spilling from Saturday into Sunday, pooped out Roosevelt Islanders argued and plotted over the continuing issue of dog residue on sidewalks and promenades. by David Stone Roosevelt Island Daily News Pooped Out: The Dog Dilemma…
Can We Do Better? The Sorry State of the Southtown Dog Run?
The Southtown Dog Run was set for replacement – or at least improvement – in 2019. That’s when RIOC yielded to community pressure, squashing a plan jammed into Blackwell Park. by David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News The Southtown…
King of Roosevelt Island or Visiting Dignitary?
He had a regal look, no question, and he kinda looked like an historical figure… but this is 2022. Was he the King of Roosevelt Island or a visiting dignitary arriving by sleigh? By David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor