WNYC Radio Know Your Neighbor Video Profile of Roosevelt Island Main Street WIRE Editor - See How The WIRE Get's To Your Door Knob
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WNYC Radio interviews the Main Street WIRE editor and shows how Roosevelt Island's local newspaper gets distributed to building residents.
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wow i thought there was like 30 people that do it and it gets delivered so early
Our WIRE, while not the hot sheet like the NY Post, Daily News, NY Times or WSJ, does, with limited resources, a pretty decent job of reporting news and features on the Island.
From its earliest days, the WIRE has tried (and mostly but not all the time) succeeded to present fair and balanced reporting of events (good and bad) on the Island.
Sometimes, the news is not so good, and when all the many sides of a story are told, one might think the WIRE and its current editor are a little biased -- but they are not, and he is not.
We are a complicated place, with many stories - most ordinary, a few extraordinary, and the effort that goes into publishing a FREE bi-weekly paper and the challenge of getting it distributed to every building and hopefully onto every doorknob is a tribute to a committed bunch of volunteers who sort, stuff and deliver.
Praise them plenty and volunteer your time some Friday morning...
That was funny. "The New York Times doesn't cover Roosevelt Island well enough." What is there to cover? And what exactly does the WIRE do? It's mostly non-stories and heaps of advertisement. By looking at the video and the average age of the volunteers I give the WIRE maybe another 10 years or so...
Let's be honest. It's just a hobby of some oldtimers on Roosevelt Island. It has no future.
To 10:11 AM
With that attitude, maybe ten years from now you will be old enough to volunteer your services to the WIRE. It my humble you!
I always like when the WIRE is delivered to my door, so I don't have to look far for potty training paper for my puppy. It's also good for the bottom of my birdcage. Other than that, it's worthless garbage.
Nice to know that my family resides in the same vicinty as people as charming as yourself.
Perhaps the complainers could do better ? I don't think so.
Frankly -- the majority of the folks who get things done for and on the Island are veterans of the days before the Tram and the subway and the new developments. More than a few are over 50 and quite a few newcomers have done their share of helping the Island improve.
So to the complainers -- until YOU show us what you can do, knock it off...
There is nothing to do better. Roosevelt Island has no need for its own newspaper. There is hardly anything ever in there that is worth reading (with the exception of the letters to the editor, but that's just for entertainment and this blog here fills this niche just fine).
The current RIOC gets things done on this island. The RIRA has a few new members, so that's cool, too. The WIRE? Uhm... well, I guess somebody will step up eventually.
Ref above blog statement that "The current RIOC gets things done on this island". This is true but sad.
The latest RIOC did was to prolong the time it takes the southbound bus to go from Octagon,Manhattan Park and Main Street to the subway station in order to create parking spaces for Riverwalk tenants.
RIOC should establish a red bus stop at Sports Park and ask the MTA to add a stop at the tram for the Q102; a sidewalk at the tram bus stop would also be helpful.
Nobody is complaining about the volunteers that help distribute the paper, just the paper itself.
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