After more than forty years, Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island will finally come to fruition, almost exactly as architect Louis I. Kahn envisioned it.

Key Highlight: The Wildlife Freedom Foundation runs a sanctuary for the island's feral felines; look out for cats roaming near the former Smallpox Hospital. This 2-mile-long island – only 800 feet ...

Six years after Cornell won the New York City applied sciences competition, Cornell Tech is up and running on Roosevelt Island. Here's an inside look on what's going on around the campus.

There are Black heritage tours of Harlem that boast connections to Langston Hughes, Billie Holiday and Duke Ellington. There are tours of Memphis that pay tribute to Otis Redding, Howlin’ Wolf and B.