#82 Roosevelt Island

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 peculiar air of a small town with one of the best views in the world. Find out about its numerous names (from Hog's Island to Welfare Island), its many former institutions, and the stories behind the island's several existing ruins, including the ghostly remains of a smallpox hospital. boweryboyshistory.com ORIGINALLY RELEASED MAY 2009 THIS IS A SPECIAL ILLUSTRATED PODCAST! Chapter headings with images have been embedded in this show, so if your listening device is compatible with AAC/M4A files, just hit play and a variety of pictures should pop up. The audio is superior than the original as well. (This will work as a normal audio file even if the images don't appear.)

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#82 Roosevelt Island is an episode from Bowery Boys Archive: The Early Years by Gregory Young.

This episode is 42:15 long.

This episode was published on Jul 15, 2016.

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