Adorned, almost as if by a brushstroke, the art of the Smallpox Hospital, joins nature and design. By David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News
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A haunting distant echo for Roosevelt Island in a Met Spectacular
A haunting, distant echo stopped me cold while I walked through the the Met’s big post pandemic show. Alice Neel’s art fills a full wing,
What is Roosevelt Island? New York’s City of Tomorrow?
What is Roosevelt Island? A simple question with many answers, none definitive. Because Roosevelt Island is many things, a work in progress, and it depends on who’s looking and what they’re looking for… By David Stone Assorted Ideas, Large & Small Roosevelt Island Is… …an experiment, a work in progress, but results linger on a permanent
Historic Blackwell House, in the Sun, Winter Afternoon on Roosevelt Island
Blackwell House, Roosevelt Island, New York City, quiet in the chill of an afternoon. Trees, stripped bare in winter, and long shadows leaning east brace the scene.
Across the River: Dark History at Rockefeller University
We know the history we’re taught can be what results from determined myth-making, evolving stories erase the unpleasant and uplift the positive. We like our heroes clean and uncomplicated. But raw truth manages to leak through.
