---
title: "Finding help on Roosevelt Island — The Island"
description: "How to find an available babysitter, dog walker, tutor or handy neighbor on Roosevelt Island: browse who's free right now, open their profile, message them."
canonical: "https://theisland.nyc/finding-help"
updated: "2026-11-14"
---

Updated
August 12, 2026

Roosevelt Island neighbors

# Finding help here takes about three taps.

Neighbors mark themselves available for a few hours at a time. You see who is free right now, read their profile, and message them.
[See who’s available now](https://theisland.nyc/help)

- 1

## Open Help and see who's free

Available now lists every neighbor whose availability is live at this moment — childcare, pets, home, tutoring, errands. The chips filter it; All is where it starts.

- 2

## Open a profile

Rates, usual hours, what they do specifically, their building, and ratings left by other neighbors who have actually worked with them.

- 3

## Message them

Agree the timing, the job and the pay directly. If nobody suits, post what you need instead — the neighbors who offer that kind of help get told.

## Availability expires on its own

Someone marks themselves free for 1, 3, 8 or 24 hours, and the listing goes when that runs out. An empty list means nobody is free right now, not that nobody does it.

## The Island doesn't screen anyone

These are neighbors, not employees. Ratings are community feedback — check references and meet first if you want to.

Can help rather than need it?

Listing yourself takes a minute and you choose when you’re on.
[How offering help works →](https://theisland.nyc/babysitting)