New Flower Shop Vendor For Roosevelt Island Farmers Market & Credit Card Payments Accepted For Ravioli, Steaks, Burgers & More At Hoboken Farms

New Florist At Roosevelt Island Farmers Market

The Roosevelt Island Farmers Market will be open as usual tomorrow morning next to the Roosevelt Island Bridge ramp and will have another new vendor joining the existing crew. Last week I met the nice folks from YA Florist who are bringing some sorely missed flowers back to Roosevelt Island. Give them a try!

I also learned last week that there is at least one Roosevelt Island Farmers Market vendor

accepting credit card transactions - Hoboken Farms - where you can purchase an assortment of fresh mozzarella cheese, breads, homemade ravioli, steaks, burgers and chicken entrees. They are using the old fashioned manual machines. RIOC Director Jonathan Kalkin has suggested using a new wireless device for electronic transactions and tweets:

Roosevelt Island Garage now accepts cards! Going to inform the farmers market/other merchants about https://squareup.com/ so they can too!

I'd like to see all of Roosevelt Island's merchants, including the Farmers Market vendors, using Square or something similar to it. Would be very convenient.

Here's some scenes from the Roosevelt Island Farmers Market though it looks like it was taken in cold and chilly weather, hopefully not to return until next winter

You Tube Video of Roosevelt Island Farmers Market

Electrical Fire at Roosevelt Island Main Street Flower Shop - Nobody Injured

Main Street Flower Shop

There was an electrical fire yesterday afternoon at the Roosevelt Island Main Street Flower Shop in Urban America's Eastwood (Roosevelt Landings) apartment complex. Fortunately, nobody was injured. According to the 12/2-4 Roosevelt Island 24 hour Public Safety Incident Report:

Fire- Smoke Condition- At the R.I. Flower Shop. PSD responded. EMS refused. No injuries. It appeared to be an electrical fire. PSD evacuated nearby areas. PSD with assistance of Urban American were able to contain the fire and prevent it from spreading. FDNY responded and extinguished it.

NYC Fire via RI 360 has the real time unfolding events:

Roosevelt Island, Manhattan, NY, 12/3/08

Address: 560 Main St on Roosevelt Island

12:24 hours
Phone Box 1942 - Report of smoke from the flower shop @ 580 Main St.
Engs. 260, 262, 263
L116, TL117
Battalion 49
Rescue 4 (normally assigned)

10-75-1942 - 12:28 hours
E260: Urgent! 10-75 1942, fire in a flower shop!
E312
TL115 is the FAST Truck
Battalion 45
Squad 288
Division 14

CIDs for 580 Main St
MD 19 story 1000x3000 interconnected on the 4th floor only. Duplex apartments. Handicap occupants throughout. Vent shaft from bathrooms to roof.

12:30 hours
E258 available replacing E312

7-5-1942 - 12:32 hours
Car 11A (DC William Seelig, Chief of Rescue Operations): We're 10-84 at the 10-75, we're going to use All-Hands.
RAC4

12:35 hours
Apartment 422 at 560 Main St reports smoke.

Report finishes here.

This is the second fire at Eastwood (Roosevelt Landings) in recent months. In October, there was another Eastwood fire which resulted in the death of a resident although the cause of the fire was attributed to the deceased smoking in bed.