Roosevelt Island Accessibility Study

A 2008-2009 Studio Project

Hunter College, Department of Urban Affairs and Planning

The Roosevelt Island Accessibility Study was a studio project for the year 2008-2009. The work was conducted at the request of NY State Senator Jose Serrano’s office.

The report is available for download from this page, as sections or as a complete document by clicking on links below. Please note that the complete document is a very large file and will be difficult to download if you have a slow computer/internet connection

If you have comments about the report or any aspects of the studio project, please feel free to write to:

Prof. Laxmi Ramasubramanian, laxmi [at] hunter.cuny.edu (remember to replace the [at] with an @)

Chapter 0 Executive Summary

Chapter 1 Introduction, History and Demographics

Chapter 2 Community Planning Principles

Chapter 3 Placemaking

Chapter 4 Infrastructure

Chapter 5 Governance

Chapter 6 Conclusions

Chapter 7 References and Appendices

Complete Report is downloadable here