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 ...

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 ...

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 ...