Editing Roosevelt Island (section)

==== 2000s to present ====
[[File:Roosevelt Island td (2019-11-03) 016 - Riverwalk Place (455 Main Street).jpg|thumb|One of the Southtown (Riverwalk) buildings]]

By the [[2000 United States census]], Roosevelt Island had a population of 9,520.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rioc.com/community.htm |title=Community |website=Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation |access-date=June 16, 2006 |archive-date=October 31, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061031121822/http://www.rioc.com/community.htm |url-status=dead}}</ref> Some of the island's original buildings, which were part of the [[Mitchell–Lama Housing Program|Mitchell–Lama affordable housing program]], were planned to be converted to market-rate housing during the time.<ref>{{cite web |last=McDowell |first=Edwin |date=April 29, 2001 |title=Tenants and Owners Battle Over Defecting From Mitchell-Lama |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/29/realestate/tenants-and-owners-battle-over-defecting-from-mitchell-lama.html |access-date=March 25, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="Polner 2004" /> Southtown's first buildings, including two structures for medical workers were announced in early 2001.<ref name="Real Estate Weekly 2001">{{cite web |date=February 7, 2001 |title=Roosevelt I.'s Southtown will provide 2,000 new apartments. |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Roosevelt+I.%27s+Southtown+will+provide+2%2C000+new+apartments-a071018273 |access-date=March 18, 2024 |work=Real Estate Weekly |via=Free Online Library}}</ref><ref name="Hevesi 2001">{{cite web |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |title=An Island With a History of Change Awaits Its Latest Transformation |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=January 14, 2001 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/14/nyregion/an-island-with-a-history-of-change-awaits-its-latest-transformation.html |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref> The first two Southtown buildings were completed in 2002,<ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|305715880}} |title=Homes Grow on Roosevelt Isle |first=Brian |last=Eckhouse |date=June 26, 2002 |page=4 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251  |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |last=Garbarine |first=Rachelle |date=June 30, 2002 |title=Posting: As 2 on Roosevelt I. Near Completion; 2 Residences Planned for Southtown |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/realestate/posting-as-2-on-roosevelt-i-near-completion-2-residences-planned-for-southtown.html |access-date=November 23, 2023 |archive-date=November 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123180142/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/30/realestate/posting-as-2-on-roosevelt-i-near-completion-2-residences-planned-for-southtown.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and a proposal to redevelop the Octagon tower as an apartment building was announced that year.<ref>{{cite web |title=Neighborhood Report: Roosevelt Island; Unsavory Past, Great Design and a Makeover Looms |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=March 3, 2002 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/03/nyregion/neighborhood-report-roosevelt-island-unsavory-past-great-design-makeover-looms.html |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref> The largely inaccessible Southpoint Park was opened year-round in 2003, a year after Governor [[George Pataki]] signed legislation designating several parks on the island.<ref>{{cite web |last=Kinetz |first=Erika |date=May 11, 2003 |title=Neighborhood Report: Roosevelt Island; The Gate Swings Open On a Mostly Locked Park |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/nyregion/neighborhood-report-roosevelt-island-gate-swings-open-mostly-locked-park.html |access-date=March 25, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The island's first two condominium buildings, both in Southtown, and the Octagon were developed next.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 12, 2005 |title=Rentals rise on Roosevelt |first=Lore |last=Croghan |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-rentals-rise-on-roosevelt/144106628/ |access-date=March 25, 2024 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |pages=45}}</ref><ref name="Brozan 2005">{{cite web |last=Brozan |first=Nadine |date=December 4, 2005 |title=The Changing Landscape of Roosevelt Island |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/realestate/the-changing-landscape-of-roosevelt-island.html |access-date=March 25, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> All three structures had been completed by 2007, increasing the island's population to around 12,000.<ref name="Hughes 2007">{{cite web |last=Hughes |first=C. J. |title=An Island Joins the Mainstream |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=September 2, 2007 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/realestate/02livi.html |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref> Southtown's fifth and sixth buildings were completed by 2008.<ref name="Sheftell 2008">{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|306162548}} |title=Roosevelt Island. Is This the Start of a New Look for the Neighborhood? |first=Jason |last=Sheftell |date=January 25, 2008 |page=4 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 }}</ref> By the late 2000s, there were long waiting lists for residences on the island,<ref name="Sheftell 2008" /><ref name="Hughes 2007" /> and people quickly moved into the new residential buildings.<ref name="Fung 2011">{{cite magazine |last=Fung |first=Amanda |date=May 23, 2011 |title=Life's a new deal on Roosevelt Island |magazine=Crain's New York Business |page=16 |volume=27 |issue=21 |id={{ProQuest|871792674}} |postscript=none}}; {{cite news |id={{ProQuest|894801063}} |title=Property – Block Party: Roosevelt Island Shops for More Stores |first=Pervaiz |last=Shallwani |date=September 30, 2011 |page=A.20 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660 }}</ref> Although the Roosevelt Island Residents Association expressed concerns that the new developments would cause [[gentrification]], the island largely retained its middle-class housing stock.<ref name="Bellafante 2014">{{cite web |last=Bellafante |first=Ginia |date=June 20, 2014 |title=Roosevelt Island Maintains Its Mix |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/22/nyregion/roosevelt-island-maintains-its-mix.html |access-date=March 27, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Work commenced on Four Freedoms Park in 2009,<ref>{{cite web |last=Hughes |first=C. J. |title=Work to Begin on Long-Delayed Louis Kahn Park |website=Architectural Record |date=June 25, 2009 |url=https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/5033-work-to-begin-on-long-delayed-louis-kahn-park |access-date=March 25, 2024 |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Lee |first=Felicia R. |title=Phase 1 Approved for Roosevelt Park |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=June 25, 2009 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/arts/26arts-PHASE1APPROV_BRF.html |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref> along with a redesign of Southpoint Park.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 29, 2009 |title=Plans move forward for Roosevelt Island park |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/poughkeepsie-journal-plans-move-forward/144112988/ |access-date=March 25, 2024 |work=Poughkeepsie Journal |pages=8}}</ref> Southpoint Park reopened in 2011,<ref>{{cite news |last=Babin |first=Janet |title=Park Reopens on Roosevelt Island |url=http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2011/aug/02/park-reopens-roosevelt-island/ |access-date=November 23, 2012 |newspaper=WNYC |date=August 2, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808121332/http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2011/aug/02/park-reopens-roosevelt-island/ |archive-date=August 8, 2011}}</ref> and Four Freedoms Park was finished the next year.<ref name="Foderaro 2012" /> A RIOC survey from 2010 found that only 12 percent of residents shopped on the island,<ref name="Cohen 2012" /> and RIOC leased the island's largely vacant retail space to the Related Companies and Hudson Companies the next year.<ref name="Fung 2011" /><ref name="Cohen 2012">{{cite web |last=Cohen |first=Joyce |title=Roosevelt Island to Upgrade Shopping Strip |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=May 1, 2012 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/realestate/commercial/roosevelt-island-to-upgrade-shopping-strip.html |access-date=March 27, 2024}}</ref> Related and Hudson renovated 33 storefronts,<ref>{{cite web |last=Kusisto |first=Laura |date=April 18, 2012 |title=Roosevelt Island Stores Set |url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303425504577352052118084884.html |access-date=March 27, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660 |language=en-US}}</ref> while RIOC waived food-truck permit fees to entice food vendors.<ref>{{cite web |last=Palmer |first=Chris |date=July 24, 2012 |title=On Roosevelt Island, Food Options Roll In |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/food-trucks-get-a-taste-of-roosevelt-island/ |access-date=March 27, 2024 |website=City Room |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Leighton |first=Hannah |date=June 27, 2012 |title=Food Trucks |url=https://ny.eater.com/2012/6/27/6570209/food-trucks |access-date=March 27, 2024 |website=Eater NY}}</ref> The city government selected [[Technion – Israel Institute of Technology]] and [[Cornell University]] in late 2011 to develop the [[Cornell Tech]] research center on the island;<ref name="Pérez-Peña 2011">{{cite news |last=Pérez-Peña |first=Richard |date=December 19, 2011 |title=Cornell Bid Formally Chosen for Science School in City |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/nyregion/cornell-and-technion-israel-chosen-to-build-science-school-in-new-york-city.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219031933/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/nyregion/cornell-and-technion-israel-chosen-to-build-science-school-in-new-york-city.html |archive-date=December 19, 2014 |access-date=February 12, 2017 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Henely |first=Rebecca |title=Cornell, Technion win bid for Roosevelt Island campus: Mayor |website=QNS.com |date=December 19, 2011 |url=https://qns.com/2011/12/cornell-technion-win-bid-for-roosevelt-island-campus-mayor/ |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref> the proposal included three towers, a hotel, and a conference center.<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Christensen |first=Ken M. |date=June 18, 2012 |title=New York's Silicon Subway line |magazine=Crain's New York Business |page=12 |volume=28 |issue=25 |id={{ProQuest|1022004371}} |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Chaban |first=Matt |date=October 15, 2012 |title=For Its Roosevelt Island Tech Campus, Cornell Pursues Some Cutting-Edge Designs by Thom Mayne and SOM |url=https://observer.com/2012/10/cornell-nyc-tech-roosevelt-island-som-thom-mayne-morphosis-ulurp/ |access-date=March 27, 2024 |website=Observer}}</ref> The campus replaced the outmoded Goldwater Memorial Hospital,<ref>{{cite news |last=Zimmer |first=Amy |date=May 3, 2012 |title=Hospital patients forced out as Roosevelt Island tech campus moves in |url=http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120503/roosevelt-island/tech-campus-leaves-hospital-patients-worried-about-future |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150704024141/http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20120503/roosevelt-island/tech-campus-leaves-hospital-patients-worried-about-future |archive-date=July 4, 2015 |access-date=May 24, 2018 |website=dnainfo.com}}</ref> which closed in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dzhambazova |first=Boryana |date=November 22, 2013 |title=As a Specialty Care Hospital Prepares to Close, Patients Wonder What's Next |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/as-a-specialty-care-hospital-prepares-to-close-patients-wonder-whats-next/ |access-date=March 21, 2024 |website=City Room |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Mays |first=Jeff |date=December 17, 2013 |title=Former Goldwater Hospital Patients Arrive at $285M East Harlem Facility |url=https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20131217/east-harlem/former-goldwater-hospital-patients-arrive-at-285m-east-harlem-facility/ |access-date=March 21, 2024 |website=DNAinfo New York |archive-date=October 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201016043817/https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20131217/east-harlem/former-goldwater-hospital-patients-arrive-at-285m-east-harlem-facility/ |url-status=dead}}</ref> Work on Cornell Tech itself began in 2015,<ref>{{cite web |last=Pereira |first=Ivan |date=November 17, 2015 |title=Cornell Tech campus construction on pace for 2017 phase 1 opening |url=https://www.amny.com/news/cornell-tech-roosevelt-island-campus-construction-on-pace-for-2017-1.11135781 |access-date=March 28, 2024 |website=amNewYork |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=McKnight |first=Jenna |date=June 18, 2015 |title=New Cornell Tech campus breaks ground on Roosevelt Island |url=https://www.dezeen.com/2015/06/18/new-york-city-cornell-tech-campus-morphosis-and-weiss-manfredi-handel-university-usa-breaks-ground/ |access-date=March 28, 2024 |website=Dezeen}}</ref><ref name="Laterman 2015" /> and the campus opened two years later.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/nyregion/cornell-high-tech-opens-roosevelt-island.html |title=High Tech and High Design, Cornell's Roosevelt Island Campus Opens |last=Harris |first=Elizabeth A. |date=September 13, 2017 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |access-date=September 13, 2017 |language=en-US  |archive-date=September 13, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170913043317/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/13/nyregion/cornell-high-tech-opens-roosevelt-island.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Graduate students moved to the island after Cornell Tech opened.<ref name="Krueger 2021">{{cite web |last=Krueger |first=Alyson |date=June 17, 2021 |title=Why Roosevelt Island Wants Tourists |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/nyregion/roosevelt-island-tourism.html |access-date=March 28, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Meanwhile, the island's population had grown to 11,661 by the [[2010 United States census]].<ref name="Ganeeva 2013">{{cite web |last=Ganeeva |first=Anastasiya |date=May 30, 2013 |url=http://www.stewardshipreport.com/diversity-on-roosevelt-island/ |title=Economic, Racial & Religious Diversity on Roosevelt Island |website=The Stewardship Report |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101053840/http://www.stewardshipreport.com/diversity-on-roosevelt-island/ |archive-date=November 1, 2014}}</ref> Some of the Mitchell–Lama apartments were converted to market-rate housing in the 2010s, while development of additional residential structures continued.<ref name="Laterman 2015">{{cite news |last=Laterman |first=Kaya |title=Roosevelt Island Gets a Makeover |url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/roosevelt-island-gets-a-makeover-1430523757 |language=en-US |access-date=March 28, 2024 |work=The Wall Street Journal |issn=0099-9660 |date=May 2, 2015 |page=A17}}</ref> The seventh Riverwalk building was finished in 2015,<ref name="Hughes 2017" /><ref name="Paletta 2015" /> followed by the eighth in 2019.<ref>{{cite web |title=Related and Hudson top out $135.8 million Riverwalk Park project; 21-story, 340-unit building on Roosevelt Island designed by Handel Architects |url=https://nyrej.com/related-and-hudson-top-out-135-8-million-riverwalk |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=NYREJ}}</ref> Firefighters Field was renovated with the development of the eighth Riverwalk building.<ref>{{cite web |last=Diduch |first=Mary |title=Hudson, Related land 'complex' financing package for next Riverwalk building |website=The Real Deal |date=January 16, 2019 |url=https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2019/01/16/hudson-related-land-complex-financing-package-to-construct-next-riverwalk-building/ |access-date=March 25, 2024}}</ref> To attract visitors, RIOC announced in 2018 that it would create an "art trail" around the island.<ref>{{cite web |last=Weaver |first=Shaye |date=June 6, 2018 |title=Roosevelt Island officials plan 'art trail' in an effort to boost tourism and business |url=https://www.amny.com/entertainment/things-to-do/roosevelt-island-things-to-do-1-19009597/ |access-date=March 28, 2024 |website=amNewYork}}</ref> RIOC began soliciting plans for a memorial to the journalist [[Nellie Bly]] in 2019;<ref>{{cite web |title=Nellie Bly Memorial Call for Artists |url=https://rioc.ny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2371/Nellie-Bly-Memorial-Call-for-Artsts?bidId= |website=Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation of New York |access-date=March 2, 2021 }}</ref> it ultimately commissioned ''[[The Girl Puzzle]]'' monument by [[Amanda Matthews]],<ref>{{cite press release |date=October 16, 2019 |title=Amanda Matthews of Prometheus Art Selected to Create Monument to Journalist Nelly Bly on Roosevelt Island |url=http://rioc.ny.gov/DocumentCenter/View/2902/Amanda-Matthews-of-Prometheus-Art-Selected-to-Create-Nellie-Bly-Monument---10-16-19 |publisher=Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation of New York |access-date=March 2, 2021 }}</ref> which was dedicated in December 2021.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rahmanan |first=Anna |date=December 16, 2021 |title=A new monument honoring journalist Nellie Bly is now on Roosevelt Island |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/a-new-monument-honoring-journalist-nellie-bly-is-now-on-roosevelt-island-121621 |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=Time Out New York |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |date=December 11, 2021 |title=Monument honoring journalist Nellie Bly opens: "This installation is spiritual" |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nellie-bly-monument-opens/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=CBS News}}</ref> There was an additional influx of residents during the [[COVID-19 pandemic in New York City]], particularly among those looking for open space.<ref name="Krueger 2021" /> The final building in Southtown, Riverwalk 9, began construction in November 2022<ref name="Johnston 2022">{{cite web |last=Johnston |first=Charis |date=November 15, 2022 |title=Final building of Roosevelt Island's Riverwalk neighborhood closed on by two companies |url=https://www.amny.com/real-estate/final-building-roosevelt-islands-riverwalk-neighborhood-closed-on-by-two-companies/ |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=amNewYork |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Garber |first=Nick |date=November 21, 2022 |title=New 28-Story Roosevelt Island Tower To Complete Decades-Long Project |url=https://patch.com/new-york/upper-east-side-nyc/new-28-story-roosevelt-island-tower-complete-decades-long-project |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=Upper East Side, NY Patch}}</ref> and topped out the next year.<ref>{{cite web |date=December 5, 2023 |title=430 Main Street Tops Out on Roosevelt Island |url=https://www.bldup.com/posts/430-main-street-tops-out-on-roosevelt-island |access-date=March 18, 2024 |website=BLDUP}}</ref> In March 2024, plans were announced for a {{convert|adj=on|2700|ft2}} "healing forest" at the southern end of the island.<ref>{{cite web |last=Buckley |first=Cara |title=Coming Soon to Manhattan, a Brand-New Tiny Forest |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |date=March 11, 2024 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/climate/tiny-forest-roosevelt-island.html |access-date=March 12, 2024 |postscript=none}}; {{cite web |last=Rahmanan |first=Anna |title=A "mini forest" is opening on Roosevelt Island this spring |website=Time Out New York |date=March 15, 2024 |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/a-mini-forest-is-opening-on-roosevelt-island-this-spring-031524 |access-date=March 28, 2024}}</ref> The last building in the Riverwalk development, Riverwalk Heights, was completed in 2024, adding 357 units to Roosevelt Island.<ref>{{cite web | last=Ginsburg | first=Aaron | title=Leasing launches at Roosevelt Island luxury rental, from $3,085/month | website=6sqft | date=June 24, 2024 | url=https://www.6sqft.com/leasing-launches-at-roosevelt-island-luxury-rental-from-3085-month/ | access-date=March 6, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cuozzo |first=Steve |date=2024-09-15 |title=New Riverwalk tower on Roosevelt Island is just what doctors ordered |url=https://nypost.com/2024/09/15/business/new-riverwalk-tower-on-roosevelt-island-is-just-what-doctors-ordered/ |access-date=2025-03-06 |language=en-US}}</ref>