Riverwalk Park

Facing Midtown across the East River from Roosevelt Island’s western shore, Riverwalk Park at 460 Main Street is one of the newer buildings in Related Companies’ Riverwalk row. The 21-story building was completed in 2021 and holds 341 apartments.

Riverwalk belongs to Southtown, the stretch of the island south of the original 1970s Northtown housing that the state-run Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation opened for development in the 2000s, and Related and the Hudson Companies have built it out building by building. The island stays quiet, with almost no through traffic and the East River on both sides, and Cornell Tech, one of the city’s newest academic campuses, is close by. Southpoint Park and the ruin of the Renwick Smallpox Hospital lie at the southern end, with Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, Louis Kahn’s memorial of granite and lawn, at the very tip.

The Roosevelt Island Tramway crosses to 59th Street and Second Avenue in about five minutes, the F train stops at Roosevelt Island, and the NYC Ferry Astoria route calls at the island’s landing.