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Paperback Roosevelt Island Book

ISBN: 0738512389

ISBN13: 9780738512389

Roosevelt Island

(Part of the Images of America: New York Series)

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Roosevelt Island captures the fascinating and sometimes curious history of an island located halfway between Manhattan and Queens in the East River.


In 1824, the city of New York purchased Blackwell's Island, later Welfare Island, as a site for its lunatic asylum, penitentiary, workhouses, and almshouses. In the years that followed, the island was a temporary home for several of New York City's famous and infamous. William Marcy...

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