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,...
Navigating Change: Challenges and Failings at RIOC’s Public Safety Department
If anyone wants proof that RIOC’s Public Safety Department needs change, resident attendance at last week’s “community engagement meeting” should do it. Only a dozen showed up while a little under 12,000 declined the invitation. (See a video of the…
UPDATED: For Turning Community Engagement Into Deception, PSD Chief Brown Should Resign
Even after pressure from elected officials, PSD Community Engagement meetings are all the community has in formal contact with RIOC. That makes them all that much more important and their low-quality content even more aggravating. But October’s Community Engagement was…
Chief Kevin Brown and Friends Shine at September 11th, 2023 Ceremony
The September 11th, 2023 Ceremony on Roosevelt Island floated on the shoulders of PSD Chief Kevin Brown and his friends. Common ground was created around shared memories of the World Trade Center disaster. Both Brown and his deputy Anthony Amoroso…
Shelton Haynes’s 10-Point Plan for Safety Is Hopelessly Off The Wall. But Why?
In another onslaught of screaming headlines, Shelton J. Haynes shouted out a 10-Point Plan about public safety. The whole thing’s bogus, of course, a ludicrous stab at an “holistic,” but barely thought through self-promotion. Profoundly confused, Haynes said, “Roosevelt Island…
Fade to Black as RIOC Shuts Down the Last Open Community Link
Turn out the lights. Fade to Black. According to reports, RIOC shuts down the far-from-threatening monthly PSD appearances before a Common Council committee. That’s right. Chief Kevin Brown will no longer lob back softball questions from a powerless committee. Here’s…
Dumb and Dumber at RIOC PSD or Just Selective Enforcement?
We suspected selective enforcement when PSD lazily put up barriers in front of a single fire hydrant on Main Street. Was it just knuckle-headed or something worse? by David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News Selective Enforcement? When PSD Chief…
RIOC Slammed Again with Formal Charges of Racism
Formal charges of racism, involving an incident last month, have been lodged against RIOC. This time, the complaint comes from Mexican Americans but joins a pending lawsuit of racism toward a white woman. By David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor