#82 Roosevelt Island

Bowery Boys Archive: The Early Years by Gregory Young

Jul 15, 201642:15Society & Culture

Originally a quiet island of orchards and stone quarries, the place we call Roosevelt Island today was once New York's 'city of asylums', the place where it sent its infirm, its incarcerated, its insane. Today it has the...

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