David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
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M and F Train Realignment: What Roosevelt Islanders Need to Know
Roosevelt Island residents woke up this week to a new kind of uncertainty. Not a tram outage, not a ferry delay, and not another set of vague service alerts from multiple agencies. This time the confusion sits right on the…
Roosevelt Island Update: What the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is Saying About the F/M Train Switch
By Ericka O’Connell, Roosevelt Island Daily Hello, neighbors. We’ve got fresh information from the MTA about the upcoming swap of the F train and M train routes — and it’s time to take a closer look so we know what’s coming here…
The Tram and F Train – Mid-February Shutdowns Challenge Roosevelt Island
Roosevelt Island’s Tram shutdown highlights RIOC’s negligence, further harming residents with disabilities while tourists swarm, exposing systemic failures in public transport and outright disregard for citizens.
The F Train Back Now – It Could’ve Been A Lot Worse
Breathe a sigh of relief. With the F Train back, the worst-case scenarios never happened as both the MTA and RIOC came through for travelers. Let’s take a look. by David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News When the 63rd…
RIOC: No, We Won’t Help on the Worst Transit Day All Year
Last evening, RIOC made it clear. They will not try anything new that might help residents on the worst transit day of the year. Appeals have been made, pleas about Roosevelt Island’s most vulnerable, but no, we’re still stuck in…
No Fooling, F Train Returns to Roosevelt Island on April 1st
Yesterday, the Metropolitan Transit Authority confirmed that the F Train returns to full service on Monday, April 1st. We reported that last week based on their website information. It’s good news, but we’ll have a struggle on the weekend before….
CONFIRMED: F Train Shutdown Set to End in Two Weeks with Tough Last Weekend
According to the MTA’s Planned Service Changes website, the much-awaited end of the F Train shutdown arrives on April 1st, but it won’t go down easy. For the last weekend in March, F Train Shuttles will not run. Only MTA…
Is the F Train Track Fixation Project Almost Over?
RIOC representatives recently shared that their contacts within the MTA expected the F Train fixation project to end in April. Now, confirmation may have come publicly from the MTA itself. by David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News Before Labor…
Fear on the F Train Shuttle during rush hour with no help anywhere
While the MTA and cooperative media shovel safety pabulum at the public, subway fear is real and continuing as an F Train incident yesterday showed. Not only are dangers increasing, but it’s more concerning that no help is available. The…
Roosevelt Island Now: Tram Rocking Out of Control. Subway Stranding
For anyone who has lived here for a while, Roosevelt Island now is filled with trouble. The Daily gets emails and texts about it every day. But yesterday, October 11th, 2023, it tumbled from troubling to shocking – and frightening….
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor