Roosevelt Island

I was asked to help out a pal with a photo of the ancient Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island. I realize the last really good batch of photos I obtained…

I had about an hour phone conversation with Lisa L. Colangelo at Newsday/AMNY recently, and photographer Charles Eckert accompanied the recent FNY tour on Roosevelt Island (September 2019). The resulting…

FNY hadn’t toured Roosevelt Island since way back in November 2005. That was a 5 hour extravaganza covering the entire island, and since your webmaster was 11 years older, decided…

Goldwater Hospital, on the south side of Roosevelt Island near the Queensboro Bridge, opened in 1939 and was named for Dr. Sigismund Schulz Goldwater, health commissioner under Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia (and…

I intend to do at least one FNY post every day this month, which I don’t think I’ve done for a couple of years. My task has been made easier…

This was one of what was originally five exquisite entrance and exit kiosks, rendered in beautiful Beaux Arts terra cotta, that used to stand at 2nd Avenue and East 60th…

Lighthouse Park is named for the gray gneiss rock 50-foot tall lighthouse (known officially as the Blackwell Island Light) built by architect James Renwick Jr., who also built the island’s…

Having seen Roosevelt Island’s preserved trolley kiosk in yesterday’s FNY entry, I can now move on to an equally engaging one right next to it at the tramway landing. What…

Even though Manhattan is an island, Roosevelt Island is an island in the borough of Manhattan. I was slouching around the southern end of the island this past week, as…

The Roosevelt Island tram, which runs between the island and 2nd Avenue and East 60th Street, is easily the best 4-minute ride in town. New York City’s only tramway was constructed…

Hello ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, welcome to Forgotten New York Walks, a new FNY category and the first since FNY Slices was instituted in July 2007. Walks will…

My fascination with the NYC subway’s infrastructure continues unabated and my love affair with the subways remains unrequited. That is made clear every weekend, when the MTA runs most lines completely…