Around 10,000 visitors were expected on the Island for Saturday’s annual Cherry Blossom Festival. Instead, somewhere between 25,000 and...

Our friend and neighbor Ursula Beau-Seigneur passed away March 27, 2019. A Memorial Service celebrating her life will take place on...

Despite it being a cold and rainy evening (there were heat lamps!), artists and art lovers assembled in Motorgate last Friday evening to...

“I think it is essential that we, as Americans, not take our freedoms for granted,” explains artist Setsuko Winchester about her Freedom...

With Spring Break fast approaching, there is still time to sign up for some great enrichment opportunities for your children right here...

When I was in high school in Brooklyn back in the 1980’s, I remember a joke told by a classmate: How can you tell the difference between...

*This article has been updated to reflect the passage of this bill in both houses. A bill, sponsored by Assembly Member Rebecca...

This morning, a sign appeared on the door at 520 Main Street announcing that the Roosevelt Island Urgent Care, one of six urgent care...

Want to go inside our landmarked lighthouse? Make sure you vote for that project on the participatory budget ballot! Starting Sunday...

There's no question that 2018 was a challenging year for the Roosevelt Island Marlins. Yet, throughout it all, and with a great deal of...

The Cherry Blossom Festival, organized by The Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA), will be held on Saturday, April 13. SAVE THE...

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...

Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary that The WIRE’s longtime Editor/Publisher Dick Lutz has been gone. Last night a bunch of us sat...

The month of March has brought yet another exciting and eclectic art exhibit to the RIVAA (Roosevelt Island Visual Arts Association)...

We have great theater all around us in New York City, and you don’t always need to travel across the river to see it. Oh What A Lovely...

In November of last year, a Daily News story announced that Coler Hospital would be the next public hospital to shut down. It relied on...

Islanders no longer have to head down to Washington Square or Union Square Park to wait for a willing partner to play chess with. Walk...

Starting in the fall of 2019, yoga loving Islanders will be able to practice downward dog on Main Street. Longtime Manhattan Park...

The Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) passed a resolution opposing removal of 11 of the Island’s big, old, shade trees that...

R&R Concerts, the concert series that has been presenting extraordinary performances of classical music on Roosevelt Island for more than...