Vote Roosevelt Island As 2010 Curbed Neighborhood Of The Year - David Beat Goliath, King Harry Beat The French, Rudy Made The Notre Dame Football Team & Roosevelt Island Can Beat Park Slope

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Well folks, Roosevelt Island has made it into the Sweet 16 Round of the prestigious 2010 Curbed Neighborhood of the Year Award.

The Curbed Cup, our annual award to the New York City neighborhood of the year, is kicking off with 16 'hoods vying for the prestigious fake trophy. This week we'll have two matchups per day, and all the results and the full tourney bracket will be reviewed on Friday. Voting for each pairing ends in the wee hours the next morning. Let the eliminations commence!...

But talk about being an underdog, we Roosevelt Islanders have to battle the mighty Park Slope in order

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to advance to the next round. Roosevelt Islanders, do not fear such a battle, others before us have overcome similar odds. Remember David beat Goliath and Rudy made the Notre Dame football squad despite being told over and over that he couldn't do it.

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If David and Rudy could win their battle against overwhelming odds, why can't Roosevelt Island beat Park Slope?

Go to the Curbed site right now, vote for Roosevelt Island and tell them why you think Roosevelt Island should be the 2010 neighborhood of the year. This is what I said to Curbed during the nomination process:

No question about it - The 2010 Curbed Neighborhood Of The Year has got to be Roosevelt Island.

For development, who can beat the spectacular new Roosevelt Island Tram with it's convenience and amazing views of the waterfront and NYC skyline. There's also 2 new waterfront buildings right next to the tram and subway.

As to restaurants we got the new Riverwalk Bar & Grill with their special football menu of 35 cents hot wings- mmmm good. Pretzel Turkey sandwich was pretty tasty too. It did open in 2009 but that's practically yesterday for Roosevelt Island. Also, Roosevelt Island's long time operating Trellis Diner recently got an A from the Health Inspector.

Retail Development - Our Main Street Retail Revitalization will soon be under way when a private sector Master Leaseholder will hopefully replace RIOC (the government public benefit corporation) as landlord and improve the current "Soviet" style look of Roosevelt Island's retail.

All this and more including our parks, green space, community activists, ghosts and creepy spirits (except the under construction Louis Kahn/FDR Memorial which will destroy the great views from Southpoint Park) make Roosevelt Island the hands down choice for the 2010 Curbed Neighborhood of the Year.

So go on right now and vote for Roosevelt Island as the 2010 Curbed Neighborhood Of The Year. It's a battle worth fighting.

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 Be wary Park Slope. Here comes Roosevelt Island.

Vote here.

UPDATE 3:25 PM - WOW- RIGHT NOW ROOSEVELT ISLAND IS BEATING PARK SLOPE 52% -48%. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK - RU-DY, RU-DY, RU-DY, RU-DY!!!!!!!!!!!!

UPDATE 3:40 PM - Curbed is reporting that there are allegations of ballot stuffing going on from both sides. I am sure nobody from Roosevelt Island would do that because we can win honestly. Please only vote once.

UPDATE 12:30 AM 12/14 - At this moment Roosevelt Island has increased it's lead over Park Slope with 56.6% of the vote to Park Slope's 43.4% out of a total of 1542 votes. Make of this what you will that in the other contest today, between the West Village and Noho, a total of 660 votes were cast.