NYC's Roosevelt Island Guided Tour (with Map)
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- Опубліковано 8 кві 2021
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Roosevelt Island has been in use by New York City since the 1800s. It has a long history of different institutions that included a penitentiary, an almshouse, a city hospital, the New York Lunatic Asylum, and the Smallpox Hospital.
Today Roosevelt Island boasts a quiet community environment. On this island, you will find:
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park
The ruins of the Smallpox Hospital
Strecker Memorial Laboratory
Cornell-Tech campus
Coler Hospital / NYC Health + Hospitals
Riverwalk Park
Meditation Step
Eleanor’s Pier
Blackwell House
The Sanctuary speakeasy-style bistro with beer garden
Manhattan Park
Roosevelt Island Lighthouse Park (for picnicking and fishing)
Sports facilities for baseball, softball, swimming, basketball, tennis, racquetball, soccer, running, biking
Playfields
Dog runs
Commercial Businesses
Residential apartments
It has transportation access via the Roosevelt Island Tramway/Tram from the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge; the NYC Ferry on the East River; the MTA subway F train; or by driving or walking the Roosevelt Island Bridge from Queens.
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I appreciate how you have spatial markers on you maps so that it’s easy to understand real length between places. Love you videos!
Thanks! I try to make user friendly. Glad you noticed! 😊
Your videos are helping me plan my nyc trip, Thank you!
I'm glad to hear! Thank you for watching and I hope you have a great trip.
I loved your video. Best regards from Bolivia
Thank 3! Best structured video on this island I have seen so far.
I enjoyed this small island & there are some decent eateries there
I'll have to check this place out should I get back to NYC. Thank you.
Your videos are so well thought out! I also love the way you speak, very clear and the pacing is good. Thank you for your videos
Hi, thanks for your videos, I find them easy to understand a very informative. Please continue making them.
Another banger. You need to be our official tour guide.
Thank you! Maybe one day I'll get certified.
U are the only person in u tube who is making my life easier ❤
The tram to there is so nice! Same price as a subway ride.
I feel like there're multiple branches for the NYC Lunatic Asylum, like a franchise, if you know what I mean.
I like how you move from point to point over the map.
I first visited this island 5-7 years ago when I found a meetup.
Thanks Thea for getting these footages in person.
You bet! I think it feels like there are multiple branches because the Bellevue hospital use to be a psychiatric hospital as well.
Thank you for bringing attention to our island.
Love your video,.... super clara la información, muchas gracias!!!!
Excellent information about Roosevelt Island, many thanks for doing this video.
You bet! Thank you.
Best video on Roosevelt Island I have seen.
Thank you!
Thank-you very much for your unique "tour" of this place! I'm hoping to move there this year.
Subscribed.
Thanks for subscribing! I hope you have a good move 😊
Great video. Thanks
thanks for the video
I love your videos. I have lived on Long Island all my life I know very little about the city, but your videos make me want to go visit more often. One thing if you don’t mind-I kind of miss seeing your actual face, rather than the animated version of yourself. I wonder how other viewers feel about this?
Thanks! Yes, I recommend visiting. Especially on a nice day. Using an avatar is 10x easier for me and more sustainable in the long run in making videos. It actually takes a lot of time to set up and film in front of a camera.
Another great video, I will definatly be making that a stop on my next NYC visit, thanks. All your videos are great, I do like the real you rather than the cartoon you.
Thanks! It's not a bad stop to make. I switched to using an avatar cause it makes creating these videos 100x easier for me.
@@UrbanCaffeine That's understandable, keep the the wonderfull and informative videos
I would have never thought Roosevelt Island had so much to see. I'm adding it to my itinerary. Wish you would do a transportation video. I have been to NYC three times now. Rode subways everywhere. Did the same in San Francisco, Boston, and DC. But being a senior citizen, I find it more and more confusing. I know there are a lot of videos about the MTA, but most are not of good quality and don't explain it very well. And your video on using the ferry, awesome.
Thank you for watching! I do plan to making the subway video. But I've just been dragging my feet. I promised myself to make it in the next couple of months 🤞
Geat video ....nice sharing 👍👍
Thanks!
I rewatched this after a year. April is a good time to watch Sakura/cherry blossom there!
Good tip! It is indeed that season.
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I saw a blog and they had dinner on a well known Afghanistan restaurant in Roosevelt Island. I like that idea.
Aren’t there lots of spirits still wandering around. It’s seems to be a lovely place. I’ve never considered visiting the island. I will on my next nyc visit.
Any idea which subway to take from Brooklyn to reach the tram that goes to Roosevelt Island?
Do you think that graduate hotel is a good place to stay if you're going to New York for a couple of days? I just covered it and I thought that it looked really cool and the tram was a cool way to just get into the city. But I saw the prices seem to be pretty much in par with the rest of the hotels
Hi there. I would assume that The Graduate is a nice hotel in terms of amenities. It has a restaurant bar at one of the higher floors that has a panoramic view of the city. But it's not the most idea for transit. The tram will drop you off an avenue or two away from the nearest subway lines. And taking a cab on and off Roosevelt Island not that easy because there's only one entry/exit point for vehicles which is from Queens. There is the subway, but you only have the F train going through there. So something to think about.
@@UrbanCaffeine it's actually really really helpful. My initial thought was oh I'll just get to the tram for Manhattan if I were to stay there, take it over walk over to the hotel and then only really stay there when I needed to. Then take the trim back across and take the subway from manhattan. I didn't think about what you said though so that's actually really good information you rock
Used to work there there’s hardly no crime there cause it’s a very small community but the tent is very expensive and they have only one or 2 affordable housing and the rest as I stated expensive but it’s quiet when I was there don’t know now
My great-grandmother died on Welfare Island in 1940, a few months after the Census was taken.
Whoa. That's pretty cool that you can trace that back. Not a lot of people can do that. Do you have any stories from her experience?
It helps having an unusual last name. People who have my father’s last name living in the U.S. are all related to me in some way. Mostly distant cousins.
Is there a hood there?
800 ft wide?
Actually less than that. Wiki has it at 787 feet.
1.) Can I go to Roosevelt Island by underground train?
2.) Can I buy a house in Roosevelt Island?
Hi. Yes, the F train stops at Roosevelt Island. You can buy a condo, but I don't think there are houses for sale on the island.
@@UrbanCaffeine I just want to ask in general, if I rich enough, can I buy someone else house, so I will be the owner of both land and house of my own on this Island? Or is it the law that the land of this island belongs to the NYC state and people can only rent the land from the government?
I'm not really sure who owns the land on Roosevelt Island. I know you can buy condos there. And the land that the condo is on is usually owned by the condominium association. Not sure if it's a special case on Roosevelt Island.
@@UrbanCaffeine Thanks
I don’t understand why you haven’t done queens yet ……
It's a pretty big borough. I haven't had the opportunity to go through most of Queens.
@@UrbanCaffeine would love to see it been watching you since the beginning and I’m just waiting
I play Little League at Pony Field
Nice! I hope it's a great season this year.
It’s pronounced Kotch, not Koke.
And to think that that island was once all wasted on poor people.The audacity!