Goldwater Hospital, which has been servicing the community for nearly a century, will be closing in a few months. Cornell's new Tech campus will be built on its site. Many of the patients have already been transferred out and some wards now lie empty.

Warm weather is upon us at last, and with it comes the Third Annual Roosevelt Island Cherry Blossom Festival.

NEW YORK -- It's been nearly 40 years since New York City started planning a memorial to President Franklin Roosevelt on an island in the East River. ...

Cornell University released new images of their proposed tech campus on New York City's Roosevelt Island on Monday. The $2 billion campus, Cornell...

Recently I met with Norwegian painter and public artist Vebjørn Sand and I pitched him on Roosevelt Island as his next location. I then pitched the president of RIVAA, Tad Sudol. One week later we all met in RIVAA Gallery to explore possibilities.

BY Ben Fractenberg ROOSEVELT ISLAND — Mayor Michael Bloomberg will announce Monday Cornell University the winner of a $100 million competition t...

NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg is firing a shot across the bow of Silicon Valley, saying New York City's efforts to attract a new science and eng...

Jim Bates, president of the Roosevelt Island Disabled Association, is stretching the shoe-string budget of his small, nonprofit organization to create...

In 1973, educator Maari de Souza had an epiphany. "As I got to know students with special needs, I saw amazing memory, perseverance, courage, a willi...

Roosevelt Island's Main Street has to be one of the most depressing places in New York City. Lined with ugly, box-shaped brown buildings that block out the sun, it seems to exist in perpetual darkness.

Warn your dog-walker not to take your pooch to the Central Park Ramble. And you might want to steer clear of the abandoned smallpox hospital on Roosevelt Island.