Weekend, June 3-4, 2023 – BACK TO CHECKING OUT NEIGHBORHOODS
WHERE ARE YOU SHELTON J. HAYNES?
IT SEEMS THAT OUR GREAT NEW 7 PERSON RIOC CONSTITUENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT DOES NOT THINK THAT ADVISING RESIDENTS OF SUBWAY SCHEDULE CHANGES ARE IMPORTANT.
THERE SEEMS TO BE NO EXPRESS BUSES SCHEDULED TO AND FROM THE ISLAND THIS WEEKEND.
GET OUR YOUR METROCARD AND BE PREPARED FOR LINES AT THE MANHATTAN TRAM STATION!!!
THIS IS FROM THE MTA WEEKENDER:
https://new.mta.info/article/subway-and-rail-service-changes-june-2-5
F trains, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens
Queens-bound F trains are running on theF line from W 4 St-Wash Sq to Jackson Hts-Roosevelt Av from 11:45 p.m. Friday to 5 a.m. Monday because of track maintenance.
- For service to/from 14 St, 23 St, 34 St-Herald Sq, 42 St-Bryant Park, 47-50 St, 57 St, and Lexington Av/63 St use nearby E stations, or take a downtown train and transfer.
- For service to/from Roosevelt Island and 21 St-Queensbridge, take the Q66, Q69, Q100, or Q102 buses to Queens Plaza.
- Note: Uptown trains are running on the line from W 4 St-Wash Sq to 59 St-Columbus Circle.
- F trains are running between Jamaica-179 St and Church Av.
FROM THE ARCHIVES
WEEKEND, JUNE 3-4, 2023
ISSUE# 100
THE MAN WHO
GOT THE WINDOW GLASS
RIGHT
JUDITH BERDY
Good News!
The scaffolding came off the subway station exterior today.
The construction foreman told me the escalator replacement was nearly finished when I saw the stairs going up this afternoon.
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Just in time:
This story arrived this week about our station’s construction.
Let’s hope the windows will soon show the wonderful mosaic artwork by Diana Cooper soon.
Yes I worked on the Roosevelt Island subway station. My involvement was in the construction phase, not the design phase, and it may be a bit more esoteric than you are expecting. Here’s my story:
In 1982-3 I was an Assistant Architect with the New York City Transit Authority. I was tasked with the review of the drawings for construction and installation of the glass wall on the west side of the building, facing Manhattan. The problem that I had with the drawings was this:
- A slab of glass as large as you have there expands and shrinks a significant amount when it heats up and cools down.
- The way that slab of glass is supported is by sliding it into a stainless steel channel frame. The Frame has to be big enough to accommodate the glass when expanded, due to heating, as far as it can possibly be predicted to go.
- In addition, the channel had to be deep enough so that when it got cold and the glass shrank there was no gap where the cold air and rain could get in.
My problem was that neither the outside architect who designed it, nor the contractor who would fabricate it, had any idea how much the glass would expand and shrink. What I had to do was find an in-house engineer to tell me how much the glass would expand and shrink. With that information I was able to design the support system so the wall could be built. Hopefully I got it right and it didn’t leak.
As I noted earlier, this is pretty esoteric stuff. I hope that my description made sense. I
Keep Safe and Healthy,
Alan Tepper
The mosaic is installed under the plywood and waiting for a gate installation. This project started over a decade ago.
PATIENCE PAYS OFF AND WE KNOW THAT WELL AROUND HERE.
WEEKEND PHOTO OF THE DAY
SEND SUBMISSION TO:
ROOSEVELTISLANDHISTORY@GMAIL.COM
FRIDAY PHOTO OF THE DAY
CONSTRUCTION FENCE POSTER AND RESULTS
FOR FENCE ON NORTH LOOP ROAD
Text by Judith Berdy
Thanks to Bobbie Slonevsky for her dedication to Blackwell’s Almanac and the RIHS
Thanks to Deborah Dorff for maintaining our website
Edited by Melanie Colter and Deborah Dorff
All image are copyrighted (c) Roosevelt Island Historical Society unless otherwise indicated
JUDITH BERDY
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