Roosevelt Island

Roosevelt Island is an in 's , within the borough of . It lies between Manhattan Island to the west, and the borough of , on , to the east.
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  • Type: Neighborhood with 11,700 residents
  • Description: island on East River in New York City, United States
  • Also known as: “Blackwell ‘​s Island”, “Blackwells Island”, “Franklin D. Roosevelt Island”, “Hog Island”, “Manning Island”, “Minnahanock Island”, “Minnahanonck”, “Minnahanonck Island”, “Minnehanock”, “Minnehanonck”, “Perkins Island”, “Varcken Island”, “Varken Island”, and “Welfare Island”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge and Roosevelt Island station.

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 Roosevelt Island.

Metro station
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The is a local station on the IND 63rd Street Line of the New York City Subway. Located in on Roosevelt Island in the , it is served by the M train on weekdays during the day and the F train during weekends and nights.

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is a historic house on Roosevelt Island 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lenox Hill and Long Island City and Astoria.

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

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Long Island City is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of . It is bordered by to the north; the to the west; to the east; and , which separates Queens from , to the south.

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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.

Roosevelt Island

Latitude
40.75868° or 40° 45′ 31″ north
Longitude
-73.95268° or 73° 57′ 10″ west
Population
11,700
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
Open location code
87G8Q25W+FW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9423354112
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­neighbourhood
Geo­Names ID
6690901
Wiki­data ID
Q909777
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Roosevelt Island” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جزيرة روزفلت”
  • Armenian: “Ռուզվելտի կղզի”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ruzvelt adası”
  • Basque: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Catalan: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Cebuano: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Chinese: “羅斯福島 (紐約)”
  • Chinese: “羅斯福島”
  • Czech: “Blackwell’s Island”
  • Czech: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Czech: “Welfare Island”
  • Danish: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Dutch: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Dutch: “Varckens Eylandt”
  • Esperanto: “Insulo Roosevelt”
  • Estonian: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Finnish: “Roosevelt Island”
  • French: “Blackwell Island”
  • French: “Manning’s Island”
  • French: “Roosevelt Island”
  • French: “Welfare Island”
  • German: “Blackwell’s Island”
  • German: “Manhattan/Roosevelt Island”
  • German: “Roosevelt Island”
  • German: “Welfare Island”
  • Greek: “Νησί Ρούζβελτ”
  • Greek: “Νησί Ρούσβελτ”
  • Hebrew: “אי הסעד”
  • Hebrew: “בלאקוול’ס”
  • Hebrew: “האי בלאקוול’ס”
  • Hebrew: “רוזוולט”
  • Hungarian: “Roosevelt-sziget”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Roosevelt”
  • Indonesian: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Interlingua: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Irish: “Oileán Roosevelt”
  • Italian: “Blackwell ‘​s Island”
  • Italian: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Italian: “Welfare Island”
  • Japanese: “ウェルフェア島”
  • Japanese: “ブラックウェルズ島”
  • Japanese: “ルーズベルト島”
  • Japanese: “ローズヴェルト島”
  • Korean: “루스벨트섬”
  • Latin: “Insula Roosevelt”
  • Latin: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Lithuanian: “Ruzvelto sala”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Persian: “جزیره روزولت”
  • Polish: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Portuguese: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Russian: “Остров Рузвельта”
  • Russian: “Рузвельт”
  • Slovak: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Slovak: “Rooseveltov ostrov”
  • Spanish: “Isla Roosevelt”
  • Spanish: “Roosevelt Island”
  • Swedish: “Roosevelt Island, New York”
  • Thai: “เกาะรูสเวลต์”
  • Turkish: “Roosevelt Adası”
  • Ukrainian: “Острів Рузвельта”

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