Enjoy these Christmas Songs from Bing Crosby and David Bowie,
Ted Lasso,
U2,
Wham,
Dropkick Murphys,
The Waitresses,
RUN DMC,
Great Big Sea
and for those who Eat Chinese Food At Christmas.
Merry Christmas Roosevelt Island.Reports are coming in of Santa Claus sightings from all around the world. You can even follow Santa moment by moment as he travels around the world with the aid of Norad's Santa Tracker.
It's official! Santa has taken off from the North Pole! Follow his journey on https://t.co/Odv8Z6jB0n 🎅 #NORADTracksSanta #NTS24 pic.twitter.com/IcZTEow18P
— NORAD Tracks Santa (@NoradSanta) December 24, 2024
Santa will arrive on Roosevelt Island in a few hours. When Santa gets here, it may be on his specially designed Roosevelt Island Tram Cabin
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It's coming on Christmas, time for some of our favorite songs.
Joni Mitchell's River.
Bruce Springsteen's Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Have you been good this year?
Darlene Love Christmas Baby Please Come Home.
The Pogues Fairytale Of New York. It was Christmas Eve, in the drunk tank,
and from Ted Lasso, Carol of the Bells.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Roosevelt Island.
Enjoy these Christmas Songs from Bing Crosby and David Bowie,
Ted Lasso,
U2,
Wham,
Dropkick Murphys,
The Waitresses,
RUN DMC,
Great Big Sea
and for those who Eat Chinese Food At Christmas.
Merry Christmas Roosevelt Island.
It's Christmas Eve and time for A Fairytale Of New York by the Pogues
and a final farewell to Shane MacGowan at his December 8 funeral.
The Roosevelt Island Mosaic Church is holding Christmas Eve Services
Mosaic Church Christmas Eve service is at Good Shepherd Chapel, 543 Main Street,
is at 504 Main Street.
Merry Christmas everyone from Roosevelt Islander and Great Big Sea.
Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukkah from Roosevelt Island.
Enjoy these Holiday Songs from Bing Crosby and David Bowie,
Dropkick Murphys,
The Waitresses,
RUN DMC,
Great Big Sea
and for those who Eat Chinese Food At Christmas.
Happy Holidays Roosevelt Island.Reports are coming in of Santa Claus sightings from all around the world. You can even follow Santa moment by moment as he travels around the world with the aid of Norad's Santa Tracker.
Santa will arrive on Roosevelt Island in a few hours. When he does, it may be on his specially designed, Reindeer powered, Roosevelt Island Tram Cabin sled.
It's time for some great Christmas Eve songs.
The Pogues Fairytale Of New York,
Darlene Love Christmas Baby Please Come Home,
Bruce Springsteen Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
and from Ted Lasso, Carol of the Bells.
Here's more about the NORAD Santa Tracker.
Roosevelt Island.
Merry Christmas Roosevelt Island.
Reports are coming in of Santa Claus sightings from all around the world. You
can even follow Santa moment by moment as he travels around the world with the
aid of
Norad's Santa Tracker.
Santa will arrive on Roosevelt Island in a few hours. When he does, it may
be on his specially designed, Reindeer powered, Roosevelt Island Tram Cabin
sled.
It's a Christmas Eve tradition like no other: Darlene Love singing "Baby Please Come Home" on Letterman. Enjoy! pic.twitter.com/oIYWRVTzwK
— Santa’s Sak 🎅🎁 (@mikesisak) December 24, 2021
and the Pogues Fairytale Of New York.
Doctor Michal Melamed is a Roosevelt Island resident who works with kidney patients at a dialysis center in the Bronx. Dr Melamed, together with her son Ethan and his friends Chloe and Danielle, organized a Christmas Toy Drive for the children of patients receiving treatment at the dialysis center where she works. Dr Melamed, Ethan, Chloe and Danielle wish to thank the Roosevelt Island community for their generous donations bringing some joy to these children. They report:
Chloe Fargo, 15, Ethan Wagreich, 15, and Danielle Burrowes, 17, wanted to do something this holiday season to give back. They each know a nephrologist, a kidney doctor, who works with patients requiring dialysis treatment in the Bronx, NY. So they came up with a plan. The social worker at one of the dialysis units asked her patients who had children to write letters to Santa. Chloe, Ethan and Danielle then took those letters, created a spreadsheet and, with the help of the Roosevelt Island Parents Network and the Einstein/Montefiore nephrology community found some generous Santas.We've got plenty of Roosevelt Island good people and it's great to recognize them.
“When we first got the letters, we were crying,” said Chloe. Some of the letters were very sad. One teen girl only asked Santa for a new kidney for her father (a kidney transplant can help a dialysis patient return to a more normal life where they don’t need to get dialysis any more). Patients who require dialysis generally need to go to the dialysis center for treatment thrice weekly for 4-5 hours. Many of the children also asked for their parents to feel better so that they can spend more time with them. “I was humbled by the selflessness demonstrated in some of the children’s letters and being able to give gifts to the children was the highlight of my holiday”, said Danielle.
The requests ranged from legos and lol surprise dolls to a skateboard. The kids ranged in age from 2-15. Thanks to some wonderfully generous neighbors, friends and parents, all the gifts were obtained. Ethan, Chloe and Danielle wrapped all the presents. Ethan wrote positive, personalized messages to the children from Santa, “I wanted the kids to know that Santa cared about them and encouraged them to keep trying hard to do well in school and be a good person.”
Ethan’s mother, Michal Melamed, who works at the dialysis center, delivered the gifts on Christmas Eve.
The social worker at the dialysis center, Ms. Joan Gooden, MSW, became tearful at the sight of the gifts. “It has been a tough year for everyone. The patients and the kids are going to be so happy to see all these presents. I hope we can continue doing this every year.”
Ethan, Chloe and Danielle want to thank the generous Santas in the Roosevelt Island community and beyond who helped spread the Christmas spirit.
Merry Christmas Roosevelt Island.
Here's the Roosevelt Island Beacon Program First Graders wishing you all a Merry Christmas during the November 30 2018 Tree Lighting Ceremony.
Despite the Coronavirus Pandemic this year, hope you are having a peaceful and enjoyable day, unlike the Ramones version of a Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
Enjoy a
Christmas In Hollis with RUN DMC
The
Dropkick Murphys
remind us of loved ones no longer with us this Christmas.
Merry Christmas Everyone,
from Great Big Sea and Roosevelt Island!
Next year will be BETTER!
Reports are coming in of Santa Claus sightings from all around the world. You can even follow Santa moment by moment as he travels around the world with the aid of Norad's Santa Tracker.
Santa will arrive on Roosevelt Island in a few hours. When he does, it may be on his specially designed, Reindeer powered, Roosevelt Island Tram Cabin sled.
Info on getting your own Roosevelt Island Tram Reindeer memento here.
Do you remember Santa arriving last year and lighting the Roosevelt Island Tree?
Santa Claus starts the @RIOCny Roosevelt Island Holiday Tree lighting countdown and then the big moment. pic.twitter.com/r15zaZO6Iy
— Roosevelt Islander (@Rooseveltisland) December 7, 2019
Unfortunately, the Roosevelt Island Tree lighting was cancelled this year due to the Coronavirus Pandemic.
But Santa is still coming.
US military confirms pandemic won’t sideline Santa Claus https://t.co/Medm8qZ5El
— The Independent (@Independent) December 24, 2020
Hope you've been good this year.
It's Christmas Eve, so time for
Fairytale of New York
with the Pogues & Kirsty MacCol
Merry Christmas Roosevelt Island
By ROOSEVELT ISLANDER at 7:38:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: Christmas , Christmas Tram , Pogues , Springsteen Video
Parishoners of Roosevelt Island's St Francis Xavier Cabrini Church celebrated Christmas Eve services with Father Louis Scurti.
UPDATE 12:30 PM - Here's a traditional Christmas song from another Island community, Newfoundland Canada, sung by Great Big Sea. The song is Come and I Will Sing You (The Twelve Apostles)
By ROOSEVELT ISLANDER at 11:17:00 AM 0 comments
Labels: Cabrini Church , Catholic , Christmas , Religion
Reports are coming in of Santa Claus sightings from all around the world. You can even follow Santa moment by moment as he travels around the world with the aid of Norad's Santa Tracker.
A call into the Ops Center to one of Santa Tracker volunteers...call us at 1-877-HI-NORAD pic.twitter.com/Js86J21vbU— NORAD Tracks Santa (@NoradSanta) December 24, 2019
Santa Claus starts the @RIOCny Roosevelt Island Holiday Tree lighting countdown and then the big moment. pic.twitter.com/r15zaZO6Iy— Roosevelt Islander (@Rooseveltisland) December 7, 2019
Watch this wonderful performance by the Main Street Theatre & Dance Alliance (MST&DA) of scenes from their upcoming A Christmas Carol The Musical
during the December 7 Roosevelt Island Holiday/Christmas Tee Lighting Ceremony.
The MST&DA A Christmas Carol The Musical opens Friday, December 13 and continues with 4 more shows. Performances are:
Ebenezer Scrooge and his ghostly encounters come to life in this lavish and thrilling Broadway adaptation.Tickets are:
Broadway heavy hitters, Alan Menken (Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Disney's The Little Mermaid, Little Shop of Horrors) and Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Seussical, Once on This Island), breathe fantastic new life into the classic tale of A Christmas Carol.
Ebenezer Scrooge is a prosperous curmudgeon who believes that personal wealth is far more valuable than the happiness and comfort of others. With an infuriated "Bah! Humbug!" Scrooge summates his feelings of Christmas tidings and charitable giving, but he's forced to face his selfish ways when three ghosts on Christmas Eve lead him through his Past, Present and Future. Thanks to their guidance, Scrooge recognizes his faults and greets Christmas morning with a cheerful "Happy Christmas" before spending the day reconnecting and sharing love with those that mean the most to him....
At the Howe Theatre in the R.I. Cultural Center 548 Main Street.
By ROOSEVELT ISLANDER at 2:23:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: Christmas , Holiday Tree Lighting Ceremony , Main Street Theater and Dance Alliance , Tree Lighting 2019
The Salvation Army Times Square visited Roosevelt Island Coler Hospital residents last December 7 to:
... give out gifts to all the residents here at the Hospital for Christmas, visiting the patients, giving a smile and hug and wishing Merry Christmas...
#SalvationArmy spreading some holiday cheer on #rooseveltisland today at Coler-Goldwater Hospital #RedKettleReason pic.twitter.com/Yx1BAJ4lkr— Salvation Army GNY (@salvationarmyny) December 8, 2016
By ROOSEVELT ISLANDER at 4:53:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: Christmas , Christmas Concert , coler hospital , Salvation Army
Merry Christmas Roosevelt Island.
Here's the Roosevelt Island Beacon Program First Graders wishing you all a Merry Christmas during the November 30 2018 Tree Lighting Ceremony.
Hope you are having a peaceful and enjoyable day, unlike the Ramones version of Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
And something for those who eat Chinese food on Christmas and go to the movie theater too. A funny satirical video.
Merry Christmas Everyone,
from Great Big Sea.
Reports are coming in of Santa Claus sightings from all around the world. You can even follow him with the aid of Norad's Santa Tracker.
Santa will arrive on Roosevelt Island in a few hours. When he does, it may be on his specially designed, Reindeer powered, Roosevelt Island Tram Cabin sledPeople often ask how #NORAD tracks #Santa on Dec 24th. We use infrared sensors from Rudolph's nose to determine Santa's exact location throughout the night. To talk to a NORAD Santa Tracker, call 1-877-HI-NORAD. https://t.co/gSvRD6ezKo #NORADTracksSanta pic.twitter.com/g8eI4zuuS5— NORAD Tracks Santa (@NoradSanta) December 24, 2018
Plenty of opportunities to do some Hanukkah/Christmas Holiday shopping locally right here on Roosevelt Island.
This weekend is a Holiday Pop Up Shop at the Seniors Center (546 Main Street):
Holiday Pop Up ShopOn Sunday, December 16, check out the Pink Tage Creative Market at Manhattan Park Theatre Club (8 River Road). According to the event organizer Carla Ramirez:
December 8th and 9th, 2018 Saturday—Sunday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
All you need in one place. This holiday season!
Holiday gifts and decorations Jewelry, food, poinsettia for sale and much more!
For Information, please contact Wendy Hersh at whersh@nyc.rr.com.
The intention of making this Creative Bazaar, is to help entrepreneurs who do their jobs by hand.Each Saturday and Sunday until December 23, the Roosevelt Island Christmas Tree Emporium is available at the Motorgate Rotunda next to Gristedes and offers free delivery.
They are small entrepreneurs most from my native country Venezuela, I want their talent to be known by other cultures.
Manhattan Park, in conjunction with other residents, have given me all their support to make this event happen. To give the residents of Roosevelt Island a family day to do activities for both adults and children including free Zumba Class, Sports Activities, and many activities for children.
They can make Christmas purchases too. We will have jewelry booth, handmade handbags, T-shirts, makeup, photography, accessories for dogs, desserts, arts and crafts, handmade soaps, women's clothing, sportswear, and much more. We will have food stalls and hot chocolate.
So we are waiting for you to share a family day with us.
Haven’t taken your Holiday photos yet? Get them taken by a professional on Roosevelt Island at a pop-up photo studio. Saturday December 8th, located at 504 Main Street (2nd Floor), appointments available from 9am - 6pm.Don't forget to stop by the Roosevelt Island Historical Society Visitors Center
Reserve your photo session now: Click here.
Cost: $50 for a 20 minute session with different props and backdrops.
Walk away with the photos on a USB drive ready to print or upload for holiday cards.
Register Now for you Roosevelt Island professional Holiday Photo Session.
ROOSEVELT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY VISITOR CENTER HOLIDAY SHOPPINGClick here for some gift ideas at the RIHS Visitors Center.
December, 2018
Daily, except Tuesday
11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Saturdays 11:00 a.m. to 5 p.m.
SPECIAL EVENING OPENINGS
WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY
DEC. 19, 20, 21
11 A.M. TO 8 P.M.
By ROOSEVELT ISLANDER at 3:17:00 PM 0 comments
Labels: Christmas , holiday gifts , ROOSEVELT ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY , Senior Center , shopping
Roosevelt Island based Party Planners Bespoke My Heart are offering:
Professional Holiday Photos For All Roosevelt Island Residents
Haven’t taken your Holiday photos yet? Get them taken by a professional on Roosevelt Island at a pop-up photo studio. Saturday December 1st and 8th, located at 504 Main Street (2nd Floor), appointments available from 9am - 6pm.
Reserve your photo session now: Click here.
Cost: $50 for a 20 minute session with different props and backdrops.
Walk away with the photos on a USB drive ready to print or upload for holiday cards.
Register Now for you Roosevelt Island professional Holiday Photo Session.
