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Roosevelt Island Bridge

The Roosevelt Island Bridge is a tower drive vertical lift bridge that connects in to in , crossing the East Channel of the .
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  • Type: Bridge
  • Description: bridge between Roosevelt Island and Queens, New York
  • Also known as: “Welfare Island Bridge”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge and Blackwell House.

Bridge
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The Queensboro Bridge, officially the , is a cantilever bridge over the in . Completed in 1909, it connects the neighborhood in the borough of with the and neighborhoods in , passing over . is situated 3,300 feet southwest of Roosevelt Island Bridge.

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is a historic house on in . The house's name comes from Jacob Blackwell, who built the house in 1796. He was the great-grandson of Robert Blackwell, who in 1686 took ownership of what was then known as Manning's Island and subsequently became the island's new namesake. is situated 1,900 feet southwest of Roosevelt Island Bridge.

Church
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The is a historic Episcopal church at 543 Main Street on in , , , United States. is situated 1,400 feet west of Roosevelt Island Bridge.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lenox Hill and Upper East Side.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood on the of in New York City. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.

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The of is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of , the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the western portion of the borough of . is bounded by the and is adjacent to four other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City to the southwest, to the southeast, and and to the east.

Roosevelt Island Bridge

Latitude
40.76327° or 40° 45′ 48″ north
Longitude
-73.94541° or 73° 56′ 44″ west
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
Height
98 feet (30 metres)
Open location code
87G8Q373+8R
Open­Street­Map ID
way 395985758
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­bridge
Geo­Names ID
6350330
Wiki­data ID
Q282921
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Satellite Map

Discover Roosevelt Island Bridge from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Turkish—“Roosevelt Island Bridge” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Ռուզվելտ կղզու կամուրջ”
  • Chinese: “羅斯福島橋”
  • Dutch: “Roosevelt Island Bridge”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوبرى جزيرة روزفلت”
  • French: “pont de Roosevelt Island”
  • French: “Pont de Roosevelt Island”
  • German: “Roosevelt Island Bridge”
  • Hebrew: “גשר האי רוזוולט”
  • Japanese: “ルーズベルト・アイランド橋”
  • Russian: “Мост Острова Рузвельт”
  • Russian: “Мост острова Рузвельта”
  • Turkish: “Roosevelt Adası Köprüsü”
  • Turkish: “Roosevelt Island Bridge”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Roosevelt Island Bridge”. Photo: Jim.henderson, CC0.