Real Estate
Retail finally finds Roosevelt Island
In many neighborhoods, the arrival of a Starbucks or a drug store chain usually signals a death knell for charm and the beginning of gentrification. Roosevelt Islanders, on the other hand, couldn’t be more delighted.
Residents of this two-mile strip of land, on the East River between Manhattan and Queens, have always relished the area for its quietness and proximity to the city, but bemoaned the lack of, well, everything. Now they are about to get a Duane Reade drugstore, and it’s the source of great excitement.
Filed under: Real Estate || Published in: AM New York