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Roosevelt Island
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Roosevelt Island

 formerly (until 1921) Blackwell's Island and (1921–73) Welfare Island

Island in the East River, between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, New York, New York, U.S. Administratively part of Manhattan, it has an area of 139 acres (56 hectares). In 1637 the Dutch bought the island from the Indians. In 1828 the city acquired it and built a penitentiary there. It was renamed in 1973 to honour Pres. Franklin Roosevelt. Now the site of moderate-income housing and shopping complexes, it is connected to Manhattan by aerial tramway and to Queens by bridge.
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The Roosevelt Island Bridge was built in 1952, and originally called the Welfare Island Bridge when it opened in 1955.
Skanska secures $86M contract to restore the Roosevelt Bridge by Wolffe, Danielle / Real Estate Weekly
In 1942, as part of their Christmas tradition, the students of The Metropolitan Hospital School of Nursing gathered to sing Christmas carols in the hospital's Octagon Tower, one of New York's most significant architectural landmarks, located on the north end of what at the time was called Welfare Island.
1940s nurses revisit Roosevelt Island's Octagon by Real Estate Weekly
In 1921, the island was renamed Welfare Island to reflect its role as a repository for the ill and outcast.
Finally getting the mix right on Roosevelt Island by Razzano, Tiffany / Real Estate Weekly
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