Looking 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 ...

While today's Roosevelt Island provides some tranquility amid the bustling city, it has a dark history. Blackwell's Island, as it was known in the 1800s and early 1900s, was used to incarcerate ...

Tucked between Manhattan and Queens, there's a small island in the middle of New York City ... long, Roosevelt Island is easy to miss but those who do make it across the East River often find ...

Roosevelt Island’s celebrity turkey has flown the coop for Midtown East ... New York.” The scene was less than hilarious for others, however — with bird enthusiasts raising concern that city ...

While this was supposed to be the future of waste disposal, only one other place in the US uses something like it on a similar scale: Roosevelt Island in New York City. More from World Wide Waste ...

Birders say Astoria probably crossed the East River to look for love. In the days before setting off for Midtown, she had strayed to parts of Roosevelt Island ... The New York Police Department ...

Read more here. Looking 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 ...