Roosevelt Aerial Tramway

For some infuriating reason, I always just miss my chance to photograph the damn aerial tram when it is coming in over the East River, so I have had to get pic of tram car from internet... other pix  are my own.

Roosevelt Island is a long, narrow (and sort of weird) residential complex with a shopping area at one end ( and a bridge to Queens) with a new Memorial Park at its Southern End.

It has a subway connection as well as the Aerial Tram...but the station was of course flooded out during Hurricane Sandy and I am not even sure it is back in service now. The online MTA Travel Planner says it is, but they have been wrong about information before. I suggest you contact the MTA by phone in NYC if you want to be sure. ( That's 511, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. weekdays).

I have never been on the aerial tram and my two visits to Roosevelt Island were both by subway.  I will have to go back and take pix some time in the future...they have a lot of apartment complexes out there stretched on both sides of the road which is like the spine of the Island. I believe there is still free bus service on this road. Check out the Wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island

The latest big news from Roosevelt Island was the opening of a new memorial park on the Southern tip.



This is from a Website called "History in the Headlines"

FDR Memorial Opens in New York

By Barbara Maranzani

New York has gained a new memorial to one of its most celebrated native sons: Four Freedoms Park, located on a 2-mile-long island between Manhattan and Queens. The site, which opened Wednesday after decades of delays, honors former New York Governor and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.