A Roosevelt Island Engagement Story, She Said Yes At Lighthouse Park - Congrats Rich & Erica

Roosevelt Island is for lovers and a great place for marriage proposals and weddings on the Tram.

Congrats Rich & Erica.

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.

A Surprise Roosevelt Island Tram Wedding Proposal Today - Roosevelt Island Is For Lovers

 Image Of Roosevelt Island Tram Wedding Proposal

Had a very nice and unexpected experience on the Roosevelt Island Tram earlier today. While coming home to Roosevelt Island on the Tram, about a dozen Roosevelt Islanders, including myself, witnessed a young man announcing that today was his girlfriend's birthday.

Tram passengers applauded and wished the young woman a Happy Birthday. Then the boyfriend asked if anyone had flowers that he could give to her. A strange looking man with an even stranger looking beard promptly handed over a bouquet of flowers he was carrying. Then the boyfriend asked if anyone had a birthday balloon he could give to his girlfriend. This time a female passenger happened to have a birthday balloon and gave the balloon to the Birthday Girl.

If you think this was a bit more than just a coincidence you are right because the young man had arranged the Roosevelt Island Tram birthday surprise of flowers and balloons for his girlfriend. But he was not finished yet. Seconds later he got down on his knee and asked his girlfriend to marry him. She said yes. Everybody applauded and congratulated the couple.

With their permission, here's a small bit of what happened.



Roosevelt Island is for lovers. It's a great place for proposals, weddings (here and here) and the Tram was voted the second most romantic spot in New York City.

Congratulations and Best Wishes to the Happy Couple!!!!!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY FROM ROOSEVELT ISLAND

 Image From fashionmagg

Happy Valentine's Day from Roosevelt Island.

We all know that Roosevelt Island is for lovers so what could be more fitting for today than this report from the San Luis Obispo Tribune of a Roosevelt Island Tram marriage proposal:

... in 2003, Jim Dorf proposed to Jodie Steele on a tram traveling above the East River.

Dorf and Steele had frequently used the tram to get to a tennis court on Roosevelt Island, where they met. After two years of dating, Dorf, of New York, decided to propose to Steele, a San Luis Obispo native who went to grad school in New York. As they sat in the tram, the lit-up Manhattan skyline providing a romantic backdrop, Dorf placed an engagement ring that once belonged to his grandmother on her finger and said, “I want to marry you.”

“I said, ‘Oh my God!’ about 20 times,” Steele recalled. “And then I said, ‘Yes!’ ”

There were roughly 15 strangers on the tram, Steele said, but she’s not sure anyone even noticed.
The two married in Times Square seven and a half years ago and now live in San Luis Obispo....

Tell someone that you love them today - or do it in a song.

You Tube Video of Jim Croce's I'll Have To Say I Love You In A Song

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY B!!!!!

Scavenger Hunt Ends With High Tech Marriage Proposal At Roosevelt Island's Lighthouse Park For Googler

Reported many times before on how Roosevelt Island is a showcase and prototype for the use of advanced technology to improve the delivery of municipal services. Roosevelt Island has the Next Bus GPS system to track our Red Bus, See Click Fix to report problems, wireless street parking system, East River Energy Turbines, AVAC underground garbage removal system and an electricity producing fuel cell with more to come including electric car charging stations and LED Lighting for the Motorgate Garage.

Roosevelt Island is also a place for lovers like Paul and Michelle, and Dave and Stella who were married here as well as other couples who keep on coming here to celebrate their wedding.

Now, you may ask what these two Roosevelt Island characteristics have to do with each other? The answer is simple. Google software engineer Ari Gildner recently used technology, Google Maps and a smart phone app, to take his fiance on an excursion around New York City to places that were important to the couple until she wound up at Roosevelt Island Lighthouse Park where he proposed to her.

Roosevelt Island Lighthouse Park Image From Googleblog

Mr. Gildner wrote on the Google blog:

I recently decided to propose to my girlfriend, Faigy. I knew I wanted to do something meaningful and —yes—a little over the top, so I decided to put my software engineering skills to work to create the ultimate romantic scavenger hunt. On the road to “The Big Question,” I wanted Faigy to visit places around New York City that were filled with memories of our relationship. My plan was to construct a map of the route and get my girlfriend from one destination to the next,...

... I used My Maps to plan out the route—from the Trader Joe’s we shop at on the Upper West Side, to Magnolia Bakery where we spent part of our first date, to Hudson Bar & Lounge where we enjoyed a night of dancing, to Carnegie Hall where Faigy once surprised me with tickets to a Beethoven concert, all the way to the lighthouse on Roosevelt Island where we went on our second date...

Congratulations to Ari and Faigy. Here's the Scavenger Hunt Map that lead to Roosevelt Island's Lighthouse Park and a wedding proposal.

Click here for larger view of map from Google

Just another example of applied technology being used on Roosevelt Island and an additional reason for the New York City Applied Sciences and Engineering School to select Roosevelt Island for it's new campus.