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 ...

For almost 150 years, Roosevelt Island was a place where New York quarantined its sick, its mentally ill, its criminalized. Which is why it was an unexpected sight, in the 1970s, to watch shiny ...

Roosevelt Island's celebrity turkey has flown the coop for Midtown East, where, like Carrie Bradshaw before her, she's searching in vain for a finance bro willing to settle down.

L ooking down over the East River from the Roosevelt Island tramway, I watch the New York City skyline shrink in the distance, its whooping sirens and rattling subway cars slowly fading away. The ...

I discovered a fascinating system that dutifully shuttles passengers between Manhattan's Upper East Side (2nd Avenue between 59th and 60th Streets) and Roosevelt Island from dawn til late night ...

View full weather report. Summer Sale ... for a 15-year-old girl who vanished in the East River on Friday ... trying to retrieve her phone from the water near Roosevelt Island, between Manhattan ...

If you were to stroll along the western promenade of Roosevelt Island, you might want to peer over into the East River: there are small, funny-looking, green statues in the water.

An island escape exists just a five-minute tram ride from Manhattan. Graduate New York, a hotel situated in the East River between Manhattan and Queens feels worlds away from the hustle and bustle ...