Looking down over the East River from the Roosevelt Island tramway, I watch the New York City skyline shrink in the distance, ...

While today's Roosevelt Island provides some tranquility amid the bustling city, it has a dark history. Blackwell's Island, ...

Four Freedoms Park Conservancy on Thursday announced it had commissioned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei for a monumental ...

No man is an island, but a buyer of this glam penthouse on Roosevelt Island could sure be the king of it. This $2.4 million property, which listed late last week, is the most expensive home now ...

Roosevelt Island’s once-reliable red bus service has ... “For now, our Transportation team is doing its very best to keep things steady, but the situation is difficult.” ...

Officials who used to run the Roosevelt Island Tram are under fire after using public funds to scrub the internet of bad reviews. The state Inspector General found executive staff members of the ...

Leaders of the state body that controls Roosevelt Island, obsessed with negative news stories about themselves, improperly spent $169,000 in taxpayer money to hire a “reputation management ...

Cornell recently unveiled its vision for the massive tech campus it plans to build on New York City's Roosevelt Island. When the campus opens in 2017, it will provide a permanent home for an ...

“Peace” officers on Roosevelt Island savagely beat a 20-year-old resident to within an inch of his life simply for standing in front of a building, his family says. Anthony Jones suffered ...

The Chinese artist’s commentary “on what is unfolding politically and culturally in our time” has a lighthearted note: cat-patterned camouflage. The work inaugurates a new art series at the park.