David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor
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RIHS Returns The Elevator Storehouse Plaque Home On Roosevelt Island
Efforts by the Roosevelt Island Historical Society (RIHS) paid off yesterday when an original plaque from the Elevator Storehouse came home. By David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News The plaque, identifying a building providing elevator service to Roosevelt Island…
The Roosevelt Island Elevator Storehouse? A Piece of the Past Returns
An Elevator Storehouse once sat alongside the Queensboro Bridge. Much more than a place for storage, it was torn down in 1970, before Welfare Island became Roosevelt. But a significant, salvaged piece returns home tomorrow. By David Stone The Roosevelt…
“Shameful and disgusting…” Neglect sucks the life out of a local treasure.
Amid construction under a hot sun, discarded, a local treasure suffers the abuses of neglect. Rejecting creative suggestions for reuse, RIOC leaves historic Tram cabins open to graffiti or worse. By David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News “This abandonment…
Paving Over History, RIOC Obliterates the NYPL Garden
RIOC calls it, “…renovating the open space and garden adjacent to the R.I. branch of the NYPL,” but really, it’s paving over history. Unless paving over open space qualifies as “improvement.” By David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News Observing…
How RIOC Bungled Blackwell House Into Next To Nothing Special
Blackwell House, shuttered for twenty years, reopened mid-pandemic. After millions spent on restoration, the historic farmhouse welcomed visitors. But then, tone deaf as always, RIOC reinvented it… as next to nothing special. By David Stone The Roosevelt Island Daily News…
The Art of the Smallpox Hospital, Renwick’s Historic Gem, in Spring
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 When James Renwick designed his second building on Blackwell’s Island, it’s unlikely that he foresaw…
On Roosevelt Island, The Now Lost Southpoint Before Four Freedoms Park
The erasure is so complete, seeing Four Freedoms Park for the first time, you’d never guess what was there before.
David Stone
Founder & Euro Editor