His hiring prospects became a total tramwreck! One of the executives who paid to plant stories blaming tourists for Roosevelt Island’s notoriously mismanaged Tramway insists he did it because ...

Roosevelt Island officials launched a smear campaign to blame tourists — and not mismanagement — for repeated problems with the island’s famed Tramway, a scathing state report reveals.

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 ...

From Manhattan, you can head to the Roosevelt Island Tramway station (at East 59th Street and 2nd Avenue, about 1 mile north of Grand Central Terminal) and soar over the city, where you'll get ...

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 ...