Beautiful Moments Can Happen Anytime On Roosevelt Island - Resident Walking Home Spots Marriage Proposal On East River Pier Landing, And She Said .... Yes!!!

On Roosevelt Island, you never know when you may come across a beautiful moment. Roosevelt Island resident Adam Guy reports on one such moment he saw as he was was walking home last Monday evening:

I captured a gem of a photo on Monday evening. A marriage proposal took place on the East River Pier Landing close to the subway.

I don't know the names of the people who got engaged but was told the couple were college sweethearts and had been together 4 years. They are not residents of Roosevelt Island, but the man had been here before and liked it very much. The couple took the Tram over and the woman texted her friend how amazing the Tram was and that everyone should ride it - her first ride.

Their friends decorated the area and waited for their arrival. Onlookers like me gathered around to wait for the moment to happen.

The man dropped to his knees on the Pier and proposed.

She said yes!

And sometimes in New York you witness beautiful moments on the walk home. To the happy couple...!

There have been other Roosevelt Island wedding proposal, including on the Tram and at Lighthouse Park.

Also, a wedding on the Tram.

Congrats to the Happy Couple from last Monday evening..

Roosevelt Island Marriage Proposal Last Saturday And She Said ..... Yes! - Congratulations!

Roosevelt Island's East Waterfront Promenade in Southtown was the site for a marriage proposal last Saturday afternoon. Resident Catherine Sheils shares these photos and reports:

The groom was expecting her to arrive down hill from Main Street.  There was a trail of flowers lined from the road to the bottom of the hill.

Image From Catherine Sheils

Finally they realized she was approaching from the riverside & the crowd flipped round to face her.  It was pretty exciting.

Image From Catherine Sheils

Bless him, he waited 20 minutes for his lady to show. 

Image From Catherine Sheils

She said yes - wonderful!

Image From Catherine Sheils

Congratulations and Best Wishes to the happy couple.

Wedding On The Roosevelt Island Tram Yesterday - Congrats To The Lucky Couple

Despite the nasty rainy weather yesterday, the Twitterverse reports that the Roosevelt Island Tram hosted a wedding on Sunday.

At a wedding on the tram pic.twitter.com/72jhEGaQSM
— Lauren Goode (@LaurenGoode) December 29, 2013

Congrats and Best Wishes to the lucky couple.

A marriage officiant describes another Roosevelt Island Tram wedding:

I married two fantastic women on the Roosevelt Island Tram. I had fun. They had fun. And the view? Better than Empire State Building. And better than Top of the Rock. I swear-- the views are fabulous, and you really can just take the Tram back-and-forth. (At the cost of a metro card, it's also infinitely cheaper the Empire or TOR.)...

and here is a wedding proposal I witnessed on the Tram in 2012.



Roosevelt Island is for lovers.

Propose Creatively on Roosevelt Island Tram, Then Wed In Front of Great NYC Waterfront Views at Southpoint Park -Before It's Destroyed By FDR Memorial

You Tube Video of Empire State Building Wedding Proposal

Are you looking for that unique place in New York City to get down on your hands and knees and ask for that special someone's hand in marriage? The blog Healthy Soez is looking for suggestions because:

...A friend of a friend of mine is taking his girlfriend to New York City in December. It's their first time. And he wants to propose while there. My friend asked me for proposal spots and hotels....

The blogger has 22 brilliant ideas for popping the marriage question and one of those brilliant ideas under the category of "creative" is the Roosevelt Island Tram. Other categories include Proposals With A View, With her Mouth Full, Old Classics, Touristy and All in One Awesome Idea.

Another idea for a New York City marriage proposal with a great view of the NYC skyline and East River waterfront is the southern tip of Southpoint Park on Roosevelt Island where this marriage ceremony took place last August.

Image of Southpoint Park Wedding from Jerry Yoon Photography

As fellow blogger Roosevelt Island 360 wrote:

If pictures like this alone do not justify stopping the FDR Memorial from destroying the views I don't know what will. Can we convince RIOC that if it continues to rent out Southpoint Park for weddings perhaps they will see that the space is more valuable than any old FDR memorial can possibly be to the community?

Love, romance and marriage - Another reason to stop the Kahn/FDR memorial boondoggle from destroying the wonderful panoramic 360 degree views of the New York City Skyline and East River Waterfront from Roosevelt Island's Southpoint Park and turning it into a mausoleum.

From Village Voice Runnin Scared blog

Above image of Kahn/FDR Memorial granite room (some call it a "death box) is a portion of what is proposed to replace the current existing open panoramic views at the Southern tip of Roosevelt Island's Southpoint Park where the wedding photo was shot. What a shame if these one-of-a-kind views are destroyed in the name of President Franklin D Roosevelt.

The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation Board of Directors will be holding their monthly Board of Director meetings on Thursday and the 9th agenda item is the proposed construction phasing of the Kahn/FDR Memorial.