Islanders taking the Tram in recent weeks land on the south side in Manhattan with a birds eye view of a big hole in the ground where our...

In her remarks, Lorraine Lasker, Island resident and former RICLA board member discussed the vision for the original Roosevelt Library,...

Roosevelt Island's distinguished history in medicine, healthcare, and treatment of communicative diseases, is on display as part 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...

For years, a small corner in the back of our local library branch has held a little-known treasury of our Island’s history: a...

On December 16, standing in front of a bust of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, members of the Roosevelt Island Community Literary...

Last summer, it struck 16-year-old Mark Shinozaki just how quickly the Island around him was changing. For example, the high school...

[Editor’s note: The following is a reprint of an article published in 2007, at the time of RIRA’s 30th anniversary, with some minor...

Long before Cornell Tech’s campus stood at the southern end of Roosevelt Island, serving as a beacon for innovation and emerging...

The ferry will never attract commuters so long as they have to pay twice to get to their destinations. The Tram proved that. Matthew Katz of

It’s a scene that plays out over and over again: A Tram lands on the Island and, slowly, small groups of riders separate from the flow of...

Island residents come from near and far, but few can claim to have come from quite so near as Islander Alec Dana. The 85-year-old...

Today, the role of antiseptics and good hygiene in preventing the spread of disease and infection is considered a cornerstone of...

Between the asylum, penitentiary, multiple hospitals, sprawling apartment complexes, and the soon-to-be-completed Cornell Tech campus,...