He began his career in journalism in the mid 1940s as a features writer for the Long Island Press.
In the mid 1960s he became the theatre critic for Newhouse News Service and The Star-Ledger, a position he remained in until his death three decades later.
[2] In 1966 he succeeded Ward Morehouse as the syndicated theatre columnist for the General Features corporation.
[3] He died in 1993 at New York University Medical Center at the age of 70.
[2] In his book The Critics' Canon: Standards of Theatrical Reviewing in America, Richard H. Palmer uses critiques by Raidy to discuss ways in when theatre critics deliberate about the strengths and weaknesses of plot development,[4] analyze dialogue,[5] and review choreography.