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Roosevelt Island's street layout is based on a master plan designed in 1969 by the architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee. Main Street runs the length of the island, splitting into a loop around Southtown; [6] it was the island's only road until 1989. [20] The street is paved in red brick.
501 Main Street, Roosevelt Island (formerly Welfare Island) 40°45′38″N 73°57′05″W / 40.760556°N 73.951389°W / 40.760556; -73.951389 ( Blackwell Roosevelt Island
Placement of The Puzzle Girl within the Lighthouse Park on Roosevelt Island. The installation takes up the center of the Lighthouse Park, a 3.5-acre park at the northern tip of Roosevelt Island, with a 50-foot tall lighthouse constructed by asylum patients in 1872 [6] and listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. [7]
The Roosevelt Island station is a station on the IND 63rd Street Line of the New York City Subway.Located in Manhattan on Roosevelt Island in the East River, it is served by the F train at all times and the <F> train during rush hours in the reverse peak direction.
Officials in New York City say a 1.7 magnitude earthquake shook parts of Queens and Roosevelt Island on Tuesday morning, not an explosion.. Around 5:45am, the FDNY received reports of buildings ...
Shuttle buses ran between Queens Plaza and 21st Street–Queensbridge during the day and between Queens Plaza and Roosevelt Island at night. [73] [74] Service via 63rd Street resumed on April 1, 2024, and the shuttle was discontinued. [75] [76]
The Octagon, built in 1834, is a historic octagonal building and attached apartment block complex located at 888 Main Street on Roosevelt Island in New York City.. It originally served as the main entrance to the New York City Mental Health Hospital (also known as the New York City Lunatic Asylum), which opened in 1841.
Strecker Memorial Laboratory is a historic building at Southpoint Park on Roosevelt Island in New York City. Built in 1892 to serve as a laboratory for City Hospital, it was "the first institution in the nation for pathological and bacteriological research". The project was funded by the Strecker family. [3]