#82 Roosevelt Island

The Bowery Boys: New York City History

Tom Meyers

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, Places & Travel

4.8 • 3.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2009

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

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. www.boweryboyspodcast.com Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/boweryboys

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0:00.0	This is Greg Young with the Bowry Boys, presenting to you another of our older shows in the Bowry
0:07.6	Boys Archive, episode 82 on the history of Roosevelt Island.
0:13.3	This show is a personal favorite of mine, both this actual show, the show itself, because
0:19.1	we get to talk about oldest silums and prisons and stuff like that, but also because I actually
0:24.2	love this place itself so much.
0:26.8	We release this show on May 8th, 2009.
0:31.1	So much has changed during then and now that stay tuned until the end of the show to hear
0:36.8	an update about the incredible transformations that have happened on Roosevelt Island and
0:41.0	will be happening there in the near future.
0:43.2	Plus, I'll have a little story for you from the blog about the famous woman that the
0:47.4	island is currently not named for.
0:50.8	Can you guess who that is?
0:52.7	And so enjoy this history of Roosevelt Island.
0:58.6	Episode 82 of the Bowry Boys, Roosevelt Island.
1:02.0	Hey, it's the Bowry Boys.
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1:18.2	Greetings.
1:19.2	Welcome to the Bowry Boys.
1:20.2	This is Greg Young.
1:21.2	Tom Tom Myers.
1:22.4	And we have another hot topic for you this week, which is certainly an oddity, even in
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