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.

From Manhattan, you can head to the Roosevelt Island Tramway station (at East 59th Street ... you'll realize that seeing the city's wild energy from the sky is way better than being overwhelmed ...

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 ...

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 ...