Roosevelt Island

Gay Nightlife Competition Heats Up: Here's The Dish

John Blair and Beto Sutter recently left xl--the gay dance club on West 42nd Street--but I hear the Saturday night event that they used to promote there is still super crowded without them. But that could change. I hear Blair--along with Alegria promoter Ric Sena--will start Saurday night gay bash ... More >>

Under Review: Sietsema is in Spicy Heaven at Sweet Yummy House; Rao Devours "Fresh-Killed" Chicken at Hanjan

For our own Robert Sietsema, hearing the name Sweet Yummy House "conjured up gingerbread dwellings deep in the woods made by witches." In reality, the Elmhurst restaurant is one of the city's newest Sichuan restaurants, specializing in "delicious peculiarities resulting from fusion with other cuisin ... More >>

Mayor Bloomberg: Compete For The (Sandy Relief) Gold

Last week, we reported on the first numbers coming from City Hall on just how we're gonna spend the $1.77 billion allotted to us by Washington for initial Sandy recovery efforts. Those figures showed that the money would basically be split into three main categories: housing redevelopment ($720 mill ... More >>

Subway Commuters Should Expect a Repeat of Thursday's Long Lines on Friday and Possible Delays for "Next Several Years"

"This is bullshit," a Hispanic twenty-something said. Fidgeting, he looked at the subway entrance, then to his phone, then down the block to the ever-growing line of tired commuters, then back to his phone. "It's my girl's birthday. I'm supposed to go see her." He took one last glance toward the ent ... More >>

Long Island City's Tech Takeover

The Hozziner has his eyes set on the tech industry, repeating over and over that he wants New York City to become the new Palo Alto, the new Mountain View and the new Copertino - all hubs of some of the past decade's greatest innovations. Progress is rapidly being made to make that dream a reality: ... More >>

Google is Giving Space to Cornell in Manhattan; NYC Still Isn't Silicon Valley -- But It's Getting There!

Move aside, Silicon Valley! Or, you know, watch your back. New York City is trying to compete with the tech-y town to be the tech center of the universe -- and Google is helping. (FYI: New York City is still second to Silicon Valley, but it's trying!) Today, Mayor Mike Bloomberg joined Google CE ... More >>

Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz Wants Brownsville to be the Next Tech Mecca

​The Brooklyn State of the Borough address is tonight, and Borough President Marty Markowitz is expected to announce a contest to attract tech manufacturers to Brownsville and East New York. Markowitz said he targeted these neighborhoods because of their high unemployment rates and the read ... More >>

Thank God It's Over!: New York NaNoWriMo Participants Speak On Their Ambitious Writing Endeavors

They have overdosed on coffee, written on layovers in Canada, traveled from the Netherlands, put pen to pad on a packed tram headed to Roosevelt Island, and made time for writing even after dealing with a parent's heart attack. They're New York City's NaNoWriMo participants, and no, they didn't do ... More >>

Live: Eleanor Friedberger Charms The Willing At (Le) Poisson Rouge

Eleanor Friedberger (le) poisson rouge Saturday, November 20 Better than: Any wedding you'll ever go to. There's something very romantic about the casual messes that Eleanor Friedberger's protagonists get themselves into, and that romanticism is particularly evident on "My Mistakes," the first son ... More >>

Sexy Nude Lady Statue to Disrupt Traffic on Upper East Side

"The Mountain," by Gaston Lachaise​Tramway Plaza between East 59th and East 60th Streets at Second Avenue, already the epicenter of much traffic chaos, will soon house a sculpture of a 9-foot "voluptuous reclining nude woman" by Gaston Lachaise, modeled after his own, presumably more human-siz ... More >>

Manhattan Is Down a(nother) Diner and Deli

As went the dodo, so too goes the Manhattan diner.​The roster of endangered or extinct old food businesses keeps growing, and today brings news of two more additions.

Salvia Suicide Could Mean End of Legal High

​Ryan Santanna, a 21-year-old from Roosevelt Island, jumped off a 15th floor balcony to his death after smoking salvia, a legal herb, with his ex-girlfriend, she told the New York Daily News. According to the paper, the pair were on their stomachs looking over the edge, "pretending to swim lik ... More >>

A Meteor Zoomed Toward New York at 33,500 MPH Yesterday, By the Way

​A fireball was visible in the sky from at least four local states yesterday -- Valentine's Day, no less -- the American Meteor Society confirms today. The meteor was likely the size of a "small car" before it hit the upper atmosphere and deteriorated, saving us all sans Bruce Willis. "With it ... More >>

Barack Obama Holds "Slurpee Summit"; Google Investigated for Antitrust; Rock Center Xmas Tree Lights Up

​• President Obama will meet with congressional leaders from both parties today -- a/k/a, the "Slurpee summit," actual Slurpees TBD -- to discuss a number of issues, including the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and tax cuts. Can some ice shavings and food coloring bring peace to this nation ... More >>

Roosevelt Island Tram Service Restarts Tomorrow

​After 9 months of repairs, the Roosevelt Island Tram is ready to start up again. Repairs became necessary after the tram was attacked by the Green Goblin in the first Spider-Man movie heavy winds and power outages were shown to render the tram completely useless. According to the Daily News, ... More >>

Here Are 10 of New York City's Creepiest (Unhaunted) Places

Creepy abandoned smallpox hospital. ​We're feeling kinda Halloweeny, and, luckily, New York has a whole host of reputedly haunted locales, including the Algonquin (now, creepily, a Marriott), the Dakota, the Empire State Building, and Washington Square Park. But it struck us that each of those ... More >>

New Yorkers Most Afraid of Rats; Lower East Side Is the Second "Rattiest" 'Hood

​A new survey conducted by a leading pest control manufacturer says rats are still New Yorkers' least favorite pest. So how do jaded New Yorkers react when these dreaded home invaders are on the prowl? And which Manhattan neighborhoods are considered the "rattiest?" Let's find out!

Brooklyn's Hipster Ferry to Happen in 2011

A rendering, via Brooklyn365​Hold onto your fedoras, people! A proposed Williamsburg-Northside-Greenpoint ferry is in the works for a spring 2011 launch, according to the New York City Economic Development Group. Plans are still in the early stages according to the woman we spoke to, meaning w ... More >>

MTA Considers Cuts; Parents, Disabled Advocates, Others Complain

There's no B or D service into Manhattan because of a sick passenger, and the MTA board is preparing to vote on service cuts to pull the Authority out of the red ($400 million) -- into which it sank, just months after the last Doomsday "rescue" plan, thanks to spectacular financial mismanagement -- ... More >>

Happy Ending for Lost Roosevelt Island Woman, 70

​On Sunday, around 7:30 p.m. police picked up an elderly woman at the corner of Main Street and Roosevelt Avenue in Queens. She was fluent in an Asian dialect, but unable to identify herself or give her home address. She was found to have "diminished mental capabilities" and kept at Queens Ge ... More >>

GENERATE GOODWILL

Riverwalk Commons offers jazz from the precipice

On Todd P's Unamplified Acoustic BBQ at Fort Tilden Beach on Sunday, From Which We Only Just Recovered

Todd P's Unamplified Show Acoustic BBQ Fort Tilden State Park Sunday, June 14 If the mind-melding absurdity of Sunday's unamplified acoustic all-day show at Fort Tilden National Park could be summed up in a scene, it'd have to be when Phosphorescent's Matthew Houck was in the middle of his gorgeo ... More >>

SHOCK & AWE

Here's your mission, if you're willing to accept it

Earth Hour Still On; Right-Wingers Offer Snotty Alternative

As we mentioned earlier, tomorrow between 8:30 and 9:30 p.m. more than a hundred cities around the world will dim some of their lights in observance of "Earth Hour," the World Wildlife Fund's climate-crisis awareness stunt. Even Roosevelt Island is on board! But some people aren't: conservatives - ... More >>

Four Freedoms Park: Might the Money Be Better Spent?

Roosevelt Island 360 generously suggests that perhaps, given the financial crisis, the Island could do without the FDR Four Freedoms Park proposed for the Island's Southpoint Park. The Governor has budgeted $4 million in 2009 for the Park and the city is expected to match that. The Park is expecte ... More >>

Less Money, Fewer Hits at Midpoint of Sundance 2009

The Greatest: a mourning-family turkey with all the trimmings What is the shape and size of a human soul? Does it look like a chickpea? A gumdrop? A pet rock? And if you could somehow extract your soul from your body, what would be left? Would you still be you? These are among the concerns taken u ... More >>

Times Excited by Brooklyn Blogs, Which Sort of Ruins Them for Us

Hanukkah Fun Continues

Last NY Transit Bargains: Roosevelt, Staten Islands

Roosevelt Island in the News

Roosevelt Island Subway Stairs Update

Escalators at the Roosevelt Island F Train Stop: A Complete Guide

Slow News Day: Low-Impact Stories from Around Town

The MTA Takes Flak but Finds Defenders...

Gas Price May Succeed Where Congestion Pricing Failed

Belmont Park's Backstretch Plays Home To a Most Unusual Day-Care Center

Is there a stranger location for a day-care in New York? Don't bet on it

Martial Lawless

On the anarchic—but militarily precise—cacophony of Aa

Take Me Out

Two choreographers make the city their stage

NY Mirror

Soggy Remake Takes On the Horrors of New York Real Estate

Close Up on Roosevelt Island

Sleepy Hollow

Waking up is hard to do, though eventually they do and embrace life

Paradise Regained

Angels and Ministers of Grace Defend Us

Close Up On: Roosevelt Island

Letters

Two-Bedroom Apartment in Manhattan Park

And 20 Things to Eat

10 Summer Food Destinations

Hooky for a Day

For Whom the Bell Tolls, Part I

The Missing and the Dead

One-Bedroom Co-op in 1958 White Brick Building