Riverwalk Point

Riverwalk Point is a rental apartment building at 480 Main Street on Roosevelt Island, Manhattan, developed by Related Companies. It is one of the Riverwalk buildings along Main Street on the island’s Manhattan-facing shore, in the newer stretch built south of the island’s original Northtown housing.

Cornell Tech’s campus occupies the blocks just south, built on the former site of Goldwater Hospital, and the Queensboro Bridge crosses overhead on its way from Long Island City into Midtown. The island’s western promenade runs the length of the shoreline. The Roosevelt Island Tramway lands at 59th Street and Second Avenue, the F stops at Roosevelt Island, and the NYC Ferry calls at the island landing.

Completed in 2015, the 22-story building holds 266 apartments. It opened just before Cornell Tech, whose first buildings were completed in 2017 on the site of the former Goldwater Hospital and have since reshaped the southern half of the island.

Riverwalk Point is part of Southtown, the second wave of Roosevelt Island housing that followed the original 1970s Northtown complexes. Southtown’s buildings line Main Street with ground-floor shops, giving this part of the island a small-town main street that the original development lacked.