David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
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December 2, 2025
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Make Roosevelt Island Main Street Better with Car-Free Weekends
Roosevelt Island’s Main Street is drearier than it should be or was originally envisioned. It discourages strollers, and people casually meeting people. Free Red Buses usher potential friends and customers past. Car-free weekends can help by relaxing car and truck…
RIOC Cleaned Up Good Shepherd Plaza. Let’s Keep Going.
Let’s keep going. After weeks of pushing, RIOC pitched in, cleaning up Good Shepherd Plaza and improving the historic space. But why stop there when so many other fixtures can benefit? by David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News “Restore…
Inept or Uncaring? Why Won’t RIOC Give Us Safe Crosswalks?
The problem of safe crosswalks on Roosevelt Island was forced on me last week when I barely escaped being hit twice. And I witnessed a narrowly missed tragedy at the community’s most dangerous crosswalk, one routinely ignored by RIOC’s Public…
Main Street in Distress Now With a Few Sprinkles of Light
In American life, Main Street is as much icon as fact, a symbol representing our shared values and interests. But on Roosevelt Island, it’s even more so because Main is our only street, and everyone lives on it. Its deterioration…
Main Street, Roosevelt Island, What Most Visitors Never See
About the long-neglected tree beds on Main Street, a resident wrote, “They are first and foremost eyesores, and then safety hazards. It’s impossible to believe — No, wait – not impossible — the neglect going on this long.” We took…
The facts are in: Roosevelt Island’s Main Street is messed up.
Roosevelt Island’s Main Street problem may never be perfectly solvable, but it can get better. Meanwhile, facts matter. Reporting by David Stone Roosevelt Island Daily News Roosevelt Island’s Main Street Flipped History You won’t notice, right away, but Roosevelt Island‘s…
Streets paved with gold…? Here, it’s more like rock salt.
A rain storm turned to ice when temperatures plunged on Saturday. It was minimal, and no mishaps were reported… unless you include hazardous overdoses of rock salt spread everywhere. by David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News Gold Flipped for…
Let’s make a smart traffic plan for Roosevelt Island…
A smart traffic plan would be close to revolutionary for Roosevelt Island because we’ve never really had one. Cars, trucks, bikes and pedestrians go it alone, navigating without guidance. By David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News A smart traffic…
A Child Hit In Crosswalk Is Third In Two Months
The child hit in a crosswalk, yesterday, was the third on Roosevelt Island in two months. Multiple reports say RIOC’s Public Safety Department refused a request for protection during a Halloween party, claiming they were “understaffed.” By David Stone The…
Proof that nagging – plus two accidents – gets RIOC off its peg
RIOC’s been nagged for months about returning mini stop signs in crosswalks. They lower the risks to which pedestrians are regularly exposed. But nothing happened until two people were hit by cars. Better late than never, although it’s shameful it…
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor