Roosevelt Island


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Roosevelt Island

1. An island in the East River off the coast of central Manhattan Island. It was long the site of a penal institution and municipal hospital, which earned it the name Welfare Island after 1921. Renamed for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1973, it is now largely residential.
2. An island of Antarctica in the eastern part of the Ross Ice Shelf. Robert E. Byrd discovered the island in 1934.
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Along with partner Urban American, the company will offload five former Mitchell-Lama buildings in Harlem and Roosevelt Island to L+M Development Partners and Invesco Real Estate in a $1.2 billion deal.
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The Federal Aviation Administration earlier on Twitter said the chopper went down in the river near Roosevelt Island at 7 p.m., adding that the National Transportation Safety Board would determine the probable cause of the incident.
The Roosevelt Island campus of Cornell Tech, Cornell University's applied technology program, will obtain all of the heating, cooling and domestic hot water for its Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center from the ground source heat pump system without combusting any fossil fuels.
NYT Syndicate Since the first crop of engineering graduate students arrived last month at the brand-new Cornell Tech campus on New York City's Roosevelt Island, many have been busy decoding the diagrams in Matthew Ritchie's dynamic mural rising four stories in the atrium of the Emma and Georgina Bloomberg Center, the main academic building.
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The deal is to allow the bank to become the first bank in the industry to have a presence on the Roosevelt Island campus this September.
"Just saw P at SummerJam & now today he's no longer here, smh." Papoose's wife then shared how the late rapper influenced her saying, "I've known this man since I was a kid; remember breaking nights sitting in my car on Roosevelt Island smoking & spitting a thousand bars (good memories)."
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