Randalls Is. / Wards Is. / Governors Is. / Roosevelt Is.
Governors Island is a 172-acre island in Upper New York Bay, approximately 800 yards from the southern tip of Manhattan Island and separated from Brooklyn by Buttermilk Channel, approximately 400 yards It is legally part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
Roosevelt Island is a narrow island in New York City's East River. It lies between Manhattan Island to its west and the borough of Queens on Long Island to its east, and is part of the borough of Manhattan.
Randalls Island and Wards Island are two parts of an island, collectively called Randalls and Wards Islands, in the New York City borough of Manhattan, separated from Manhattan by the Harlem River, from Queens by the East River and Hell Gate, and from the Bronx by the Bronx Kill.
Roosevelt, Wards and Randalls can be reached by pedistrian bridges. Governors Island can be reached by the East River Ferry.
Roosevelt Island
Lighthouse Park
Roosevelt Island
Under the 59th St Bridge
Roosevelt Island
Manhattan Views from Governors Island
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Old Military Installastions on Governors Island
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Looking uptown (north)
Roosevelt Island
Tom Otterness style is “often described as cartoonish and cheerful, but also political. His sculptures allude to sex, class, money and race. These sculptures depict, among other things, huge pennies, pudgy characters in business suits with moneybag heads, helmeted workers holding giant tools, and an alligator crawling out from under a sewer cover. His aesthetic can be seen as a riff on capitalist realism.”
The message of the Roosevelt Island piece is pretty clear: Money has a corrupting effect on the dream of home ownership.
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