Roosevelt Island is perhaps best known for the red tram that takes you there.

Starting tonight, you can add Roosevelt Island to the list.

He was 78 years old and lived on Roosevelt Island.

Roosevelt Island officials said the tramway would be shut down for at least a week.

Still time to turn down that path and head to Roosevelt Island.

Our biggest challenge is to get people to come to Roosevelt Island.

In 1989, the line made subway service to Roosevelt Island possible.

This is a significant number given that Roosevelt Island has only 8,000 residents.

But officials are also trying to spread the word that Roosevelt Island is a fun place to visit.

Roosevelt Island's residential community was not designed to support automobile traffic during its planning in the early 1970s.

But most notably, construction on Roosevelt Island began under his watch.

Her oldest daughter moved to Roosevelt Island some time ago because "she didn't want to know about this building."

Indeed, social idealism may be the best thing about the new town on Roosevelt Island.

Doug's dream is to open his own hotel on Roosevelt Island.

The two of them are heading into the city — and crossing over Roosevelt Island.

Today, he said, those who live on Roosevelt Island are interested in less formal uses for the land.

On Roosevelt Island, just across the street from the tram station.

And to some degree, they’re right — Roosevelt Island has always been an area of experimentation, rather than growth.

Roosevelt Island was once filled with prisons, poorhouses and hospitals.

The campus, at the southern end of Roosevelt Island, is to be built in two phases.

"Roosevelt Island has become more self-sufficient with a much-improved management team," he said.

To Roosevelt Island residents, it was money well spent.

July 13 was a turning point for Roosevelt Island.

The place is Roosevelt Island, and the bill would bring self-government to those residents.

Some sections of Roosevelt Island could already pass for a quaint college town.