When she’s not teaching children’s ballet and dance classes at Main Street Theater and Dance Alliance (MSTDA), Canadian born Haley Ostir...

In 2007 Judy Berdy, opened the Visitors Center. She used a kiosk that once marked the entrance to the Trolley Station people took to get...

Five Island women, J. Khadijah Abdurahman, Jennilie Brewster, Rossana Ceruzzi, Julia Ferguson, Jovemay Santos will be honored by Assembly...

In 1982, a small group of Islanders got together to form a board of directors for what later became Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance....

Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance's (MST&DA) Director of Teen Theatre, actor/director Joan Marie Cusick, who goes by stage name Joan...

29-year old Manhattan Park resident Mark Kilpatrick was awarded a spot on the Forbes “30 Under 30” list for 2019 in the enterprise...

As a pediatrician, Dr. Katherine Grimm has watched over a generation of Roosevelt Island kids grow up, carefully guiding them through...

In 2014, Rebecca Seawright became the first female to be elected to the State's 76th Assembly district, which includes Roosevelt Island....

Since 2013, New York City Council Member Ben Kallos has represented Roosevelt Island, along with the Upper East Side and the rest of the...

It was a special occasion for a special woman. Island resident, Mary Eileen Fitzgerald, age 95, clad in a salmon-colored suit, was...

In the fall of 2014, Trellis owner Kaie Razaghi and his son Alex closed the diner they operated in the heart of Roosevelt Island to begin...

“I am lucky” are words I didn’t expect to hear from LeVar Lawrence when we met a few weeks ago under the leafy canopy next to Coler...

On the southern part of Roosevelt Island lies the gleaming Cornell Tech campus, a graduate school designed to engage our rapidly evolving...

As a featured performer on multiple Grammy- and Latin Grammy-awarded albums, Leonardo Suarez Paz can have his pick of concert venues. The...

Next month, homegrown Islanders Miebaka Yohannes and Felix Cardinal will join nearly 3,000 cyclists making the 550-mile journey from San...

In 2013, Jack McManus, a lifelong New Yorker and former executive officer at the NYPD, took over as director of the Roosevelt Island...

Known by many locals simply as “The Roosevelt Island Doctor,” Dr. Jack Resnick has built a reputation for bringing a small-town ethos to...

In the spring of 1993, 50 eighth graders had the distinction of being the first class of students to graduate from the Island’s newly built

In 2015, after working for years at the Southtown pizzeria then known as Nonno’s, Oscar Molina decided to take a chance. The Guatemala...

Spend an hour with one of Roosevelt Island’s most decorated athletes, and you will be reminded that the world is brimming with...