“Forget everything you think you know about Roosevelt Island,” said Kaja Meade, who moved her family from Manhattan to the spit of land in the East River in 2012. The slender, two-mile long expanse ...

Nestled between the Long Island City, Queens, waterfront and the east side of Manhattan, Roosevelt Island is one of New York City's hidden gems. The Tramway departs from East 59th Street and 2nd ...

New Yorkers will soon be able to see a forest through the concrete jungle. The Big Apple will welcome its first-ever mini forest this spring when a planting initiative that’s been blooming across the ...

From Manning’s to Blackwell to Welfare to Roosevelt, this 2.5 mile strip of New York City has gone by many names and served many purposes. Developed first as a family farm then a prison complex, ...

New York City’s Roosevelt Island remains of the city’s best-kept secrets, a place whose existence most out-of-towners—and sometimes even locals—don’t know, or care, about. Which is exactly what makes ...

Much of Roosevelt Island is vast patches of grass, fields and small playgrounds that contains minimal biodiversity compared to other parts of the city. The long strip of land in New York’s East River ...

After more than forty years, Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island will finally come to fruition, almost exactly as architect Louis I. Kahn envisioned it.

Roosevelt Island may not be the first destination visitors to New York City plan to visit, but the island in the East River between Manhattan and Queens is a worthwhile destination. Accessible via the ...

An affiliate of ACRES Capital, a lender for the Graduate, has filed to evict the AJ Capital-affiliated hotel brand from ...

An earthquake rattled parts of Queens on Tuesday morning at almost the same time a series of underground explosions were reported on Roosevelt Island, city officials said. The magnitude-1.7 earthquake ...

It’s the height of folly to conduct an interview in the middle of a New York City sidewalk on a weekday morning. But during a stroll earlier this month along Roosevelt Island’s quiet Main Street — ...