Cableway Roosevelt island – this form of public transport in new York, and entertaining attraction. The townspeople got used to it as something ordinary, tourists will be delighted with the flight over Manhattan and the East river.

Narrow and long Roosevelt island is located between Manhattan and Queens. His high crosses the Queensboro bridge, but the problem is that direct access from the bridge to the island there. In the first half of the twentieth century the inhabitants of the island went by tram to the middle of the bridge, go out there and moved over to the Elevator that took them to the home. But in 1957, a tram line running along the bridge, was eliminated. Of all the options of the organization of passenger traffic with the island chose the cable car – while not come here metro. But the citizens are so used to the funicular that it is valid today, although the island has long been a subway station.

Established in 1976 cableway is near the Queensboro bridge. She only has two stations: one in Manhattan, the other on Roosevelt island. On parallel ropes move back and forth two cars in Italy, each accommodates up to 110 people.

The ride is somewhat like flying a plane (but without the noise). Cabin starts from ground level pretty quickly and starts to climb. Near the Manhattan shore, the cable car reaches the highest point is 76 meters above the East river. This is not enough to rise above the roofs of skyscrapers, but the eyes of the passengers seems to be an amazing panorama of Manhattan, Queens and the river separating them. This is especially good in the evening, when soaring in the sky cabin is surrounded by a myriad of lights of a giant city.

Tram monorail slowly creeps at a speed of 28 kilometers per hour, but the way in one direction passes in just three minutes. Every trailer makes per day 115 flights. Since 1976 the cableway has transported more than 26 million passengers.

New Yorkers don't want to abandon this cable car, although from time to time accidents happen here. The most famous of these occurred in 2006, when due to a power outage 69 passengers stuck in cabins over the East river. They were evacuated with the help of a special rescue baskets are all alive and healthy.