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Roosevelt Island is an island in New York City's East River, within the borough of Manhattan. It lies between Manhattan Island to the west, and the borough of Queens, on Long Island, to the east. It is about 2 miles (3.2 km) long, with an area of 147 acres (0.59 km 2), and had a population of 11,722 as of the 2020 United States census. It ...
The Roosevelt Island station is a station on the IND 63rd Street Line of the New York City Subway. ... Station house and entrance from Google Maps Street View;
The Roosevelt Island Tramway is an aerial tramway that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Roosevelt Island to the Upper East Side of Manhattan.The tramway is the first commuter aerial tramway in the U.S., having opened on May 17, 1976, to serve residential developments on Roosevelt Island.
Theodore Roosevelt Island is an 88.5-acre (358,000 m 2) island and national memorial located in the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. [2] [3] During the Civil War, it was used as a training camp for the United States Colored Troops.
Roosevelt Island’s once-reliable red bus service has been thrown into chaos over the last few months — with one fuming islander telling The Post that lately the service just plain “sucks.”
An F shuttle train (operated by East New York Yard) ran between Lexington Avenue-63rd Street and 21st Street-Queensbridge, stopping at Roosevelt Island, at all times except late nights. Shuttle buses ran between Queens Plaza and 21st Street–Queensbridge during the day and between Queens Plaza and Roosevelt Island at night.
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a four-acre (1.6 ha) memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt that celebrates the Four Freedoms he articulated in his 1941 State of the Union address. It is located in New York City at the southernmost point of Roosevelt Island , in the East River between Manhattan Island and Queens .
The Queensboro Bridge, officially the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City.Completed in 1909, it connects the Long Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens with the East Midtown and Upper East Side neighborhoods in Manhattan, passing over Roosevelt Island.