Manhattan Park

Manhattan Park is a rental apartment complex at 10 River Road on Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan and Queens. It is one of the island’s largest residential developments, a group of buildings set along the island’s eastern shore with landscaped grounds and a private pool club.

Roosevelt Island is a planned residential community with no through traffic, reached by the F train at the Roosevelt Island station, the Roosevelt Island Tramway to Second Avenue and East 59th Street, the Q102 bus and the Astoria ferry. The Cornell Tech campus, Four Freedoms Park, the Blackwell House and the island’s perimeter promenade are all within walking distance of the complex.

Manhattan Park opened in 1989, the same year the F train began serving Roosevelt Island, as the second major phase of the island’s residential development. The island spent most of its history as Welfare Island, home to hospitals, an asylum and a prison, before New York State’s Urban Development Corporation began turning it into a planned community in the 1970s under a master plan by Philip Johnson and John Burgee.

With 880 apartments, Manhattan Park is one of the island’s largest rental complexes. Roosevelt Island’s quiet, car-light streets, waterfront promenade and free red-bus shuttle give it a small-town feel that is rare so close to Midtown, and the tram ride over the East River to Second Avenue takes only a few minutes.