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	Encyclopedia: Roosevelt Island
		9,500, is a long, narrow island in the East River of New York City, lying between the island of Manhattan to its west and Queens on Long Island to its east.
		It was named Manning's Island after captain John Manning from 1666 to 1686, Blackwells Island from 1686 to 1921 and Welfare Island from 1921.
		In recent years the island has been developed as a residential community with a number of high-rise apartment buildings; the long-term care facilities remain at both the northern (Coler Hospital) and southern (Goldwater Hospital) ends of the island.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Roosevelt-Island (2149 words)

	Blackwell Hotel
		Blackwell gained national prominence because of his official actions in matters relating to the disputed voting on November 2, 2004, including that for the U.S. Presidency and for state and county offices.
		Blackwell received a bachelor of science degree in psychology from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1970 and his master of education degree, also from Xavier, in 1971.
		Blackwell served in the administration of President George H.W. Bush as deputy undersecretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 1989 to 1990, when he returned to Cincinnati to run for the First District seat in the United States House of Representatives being vacated by Tom Luken.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/22/blackwell-hotel.html (1321 words)

	Roosevelt Island -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		This article refers to the island in (The largest city in New York State and in the United States; located in southeastern New York at the mouth of the Hudson river; a major financial and cultural center) New York City.
		Despite its midriver position, Roosevelt Island is under the legal jurisdiction of the Borough of Manhattan and New York County.
		In recent years the island has been developed as a residential community with a number of (Tower consisting of a multistoried building of offices or apartments) high-rise apartment buildings; the long-term care facilities remain at both the northern (Coler Hospital) and southern (Goldwater Hospital) ends of the island.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ro/roosevelt_island.htm (715 words)

	NEW YORK (CITY) - LoveToKnow Article on NEW YORK (CITY)
		Upon its first occupation by the Dutch the island was rough and rocky with brooks, ponds, marshes and several expenses for important harbour irilprovements, principally dredging~ were $1,035,300 for New York, $2,710,000 (exclusive of $I,f85,00c for the Delaware Breakwater) for Philadelphia, $1,501,169 for Boston, $1,404,845 for New Orleans, and $470,000 for Baltimore.
		Coney Island (q.v.), similar resorts on Staten Island, on the shores of the North river and on Long Island on the Sound, and on the Hudson river are popular amusement places.
		Communicalions.The physical limitations of Manhattan Island and particularly the circumstance that the business area of the city is small and that the movement of passengers is almost entirely in one direction at any~ one time, have hindered the development of a simple and adequate system of local communications.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NEW_YORK_CITY_.htm (15430 words)

	Printer Friendly Version - Intervention's divine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Roosevelt Island preservationists are celebrating the completion of a seven-year campaign to restore the bell tower and a stained-glass rose window on the Chapel of the Good Shepherd.
		The Chapel of the Good Shepherd was constructed in 1888 on the grounds of an almshouse on Blackwells Island by British architect Frederick Clarke Withers.
		At the time, the island was home to some 2,000 of the city's poorest residents, and the Episcopal mission chapel was the residents' spiritual center.
	www.nydailynews.com /boroughs/v-pfriendly/story/204727p-176724c.html (440 words)

	Blackwell's Island Part 1
		Blackwell's was the name that for nearly two centuries identified what is now known as Roosevelt Island, whose aerial tramway cable-cars gliding over the East River can be seen from the Queensborough Bridge.
		In 1848 the Bellevue complex was divided, one reason being the intent to move all its inmates to Blackwell's.
		The Blackwell's Workhouse was built in 1852 to replace a century-old similar facility at Bellevue.
	www.correctionhistory.org /html/chronicl/nycdoc/html/blakwel1.html (698 words)

	Maine Granite Quarry List - Page 1
		This quarry was "in the town of Mount Desert, southeast of the village of 'Hall Quarry' and four-fifths mile north of the Robinson Mountains." The operator was the Booth Bros. and Hurricane Isle Granite Co., 208 Broadway, New York.
		Granite from the Moose Island Quarry was used in the Gate house at Central Park and the steps of Columbia University in New York; and in the trimmings of the Hampton Dormitory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
		This quarry was "on Swans Island, east side of the old harbor, not quite 1 mile east of Swans Island village and three-fourths mile southeast of Minturn." The operator was Matthew Baird Contracting Co., 433 East Ninety-second Street, New York.
	www.cagenweb.com /quarries/states/me-maine_granite_quarry_list.html (4986 words)

	Woodalls Open Roads Forum: Campgrounds, Resorts and Attractions: Coeur d' Alene KOA
		We are staying at Blackwells Island RV park that same weekend..
		Blackwell is more central but has few trees and is dusty.
		Blackwell Island is directly across from a 24/7 saw mill.
	www.woodalls.com /cforum/Index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/15596510.cfm (714 words)

	1859 NY Institutions
		Blackwells Island, which derives its name from that of the owner of it prior to becoming the property of the City of New York, is situated in the East River, and extends for more than a mile (from Fiftieth to Eighty-fourth street.) in the middle of that maritime thoroughfare.
		Upon the island the following institutions are located, under the superintendence of the ten governors.
		Seamen's Fund and Retreat, Staten Island (Was this the same as Marine Hospital and Quarantine Estab., Staten Island) Ward's Island, Ward's Island
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Professional/Institutions.1859.html (1938 words)

	The Steinway Tunnels
		The purpose of their plans was to construct a tunnel railroad from Ravenswood, north of Long Island City, to a convenient point in Manhattan that would serve as a direct connection between the Long Island Rail Road and the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad.
		At the time, a similar plan was being pushed for a bridge over the East River to be known as the Blackwells Island Bridge and it too was for the same purpose as the tunnel project.
		The route in Long Island City (Queens County) was via tunnel under the East River to a shore point near 5th St. (49th Ave.) thence under private right-of-way diagonally to 4th St. (50th Ave.) thence via that Street to Jackson Ave., thence northeast beside Jackson Ave.
	www.nycsubway.org /irt/steinway (8569 words)

	Correctional Association of NY History: Ch. III
		These were persons imprisoned in city jails, usually on Blackwells Island, as punishment for public intoxication, disorderly conduct, street fighting, and petty larceny.
		The manner in which legislation was enacted to establish a workhouse for petty criminals on Blackwells Island is an early but telling example of judicial activism in the face of legislative and political inertia toward the cries for prison reform.
		The episode of the workhouse on Blackwells Island began in December 1848, when Judge John Edmonds, who helped found the Association, impaneled a grand jury to investigate, among other things, the stringent release policies of the city prisons.
	www.correctionhistory.org /html/chronicl/cany/html/cany03a.html (1180 words)

	NYPL, Moving Uptown Exhibition
		Whether hospital, almshouse, or jail (and often these organizations were housed together), the institutions were usually located away from the rest of the community, relegated to an area north of the city or to an island off of Manhattan.
		Bellevue included a large almshouse, and about mid-century, Blackwell's Island (later Welfare Island, now Roosevelt Island) became the site of an almshouse and workhouse, at about the same time as almshouses were established in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.
		Wards Island, at the northern end of the East River, housed a hospital for destitute immigrants, an immigration station, and the City Asylum (later to become Manhattan State Hospital and then the Manhattan Psychiatric Center), and in 1850 was the site of a home for juvenile delinquents.
	www.nypl.org /research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/movingup/labelvi.htm (1471 words)

	Voice, The: Island life: As Chris Blackwell's Island Records hits 40, the label's@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Island life: As Chris Blackwell's Island Records hits 40, the label's
		ISLAND LIFE: As Chris Blackwell's Island Records hits 40, the label's success shows no sign of stopping
		Island Records, the Jamaican company synonymous with Bob Marley and the rise of reggae music throughout the world, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1P1:3988548&refid=ink_tptd_np (227 words)

	Picture Collection Online - Search Results
		[Workhouse on Blackwell's Island : the swill tub.]
		[Workhouse on Blackwell's Island : interior of the
		View of the penitentiary, at Blackwell's Island, N
	digital.nypl.org /mmpco/searchresultsK.cfm?keyword=BLACKWELL'S+ISLAND (99 words)

	The General Slocum Disaster: Documents
		Smoke was first noticed as the vessel passed the northern tip of Blackwells Island (present-day Roosevelt Island).
		In what later proves to be a very controversial decision, he decides not to bring the vessel to the immediate Queens or Manhattan shorelines and instead heads one mile north to North Brother Island where he remembers there a small beach.
		Nonetheless, hundreds poured over the sides of the steamer as it headed for North Brother Island, hoping one of the many boats responding to the fire might haul them to safety.
	www.general-slocum.com /0photogallerych2.htm (423 words)

	Eastern Long Island dining, golf outings, catering - Blackwells Restaurant
		Blackwells combines contemporary cuisine with touches of a
		Join us for lunch after golf or dinner after dark, Blackwells is accessible - casually inviting - richly rewarding.
		From prime - dry aged beef to carefully handled seafood to organically farmed local produce, only products of the finest quality reach your plate.
	blackwellsrestaurant.com (142 words)

	Eastern Long Island dining, catering and meeting facility - Blackwells dinner menu
		Long Island little neck clams served chilled over a bed of shaved ice with lemon wedge, cocktail sauce and horseradish
		Long Island little neck clams seasoned with Italian style breadcrumbs baked and finished with a light lemon and white wine butter sauce
		Fresh Long Island clams, potatoes and vegetables slow cooked in a light cream and seafood broth
	www.blackwellsrestaurant.com /bwdinnermenu.html (438 words)

	Richard C. Patterson, Jr., Major, United States Army
		In anticipation of his presiding at its opening in 1933, his name was carved into the cornerstone placed into the building while he was still commissioner.
		The Penitentiary and its companion building, the Rikers Island Hospital (now North Infirmary Command), were the first major prison facilities to be built on the island.
		Under Patterson, the island was transformed from essentially a rural penal colony to an urban prison complex.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /rcpatterson.htm (1033 words)

	Queensboro Bridge over Blackwell's Island, East River, New York (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Blackwells Island Bridge extends over the East River from 59th Street and 2nd Ave., Manhattan, to Jane and Academy Streets, Long Island City.
		It is a great cantilever structure, costing $25,000,000 and rests on six masonry piers.
		It is 7636 feet long, west span is 1182 feet, clear height over channels 135 feet, height of island tower is 324 feet, width 86 feet, two decks with 53 foot road.
	www.vintageviews.org /vv-ny/Ko/cards/nyc047.html (89 words)

	Little Mary Ellen McCormack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Score lived in a tenement in the infamous warrens of Mulberry Bend, where thousands of immigrants crowded into small, airless rooms, and it is likely that providing foster care was her only means of income.
		The same slum-bred diseases that ravaged the children on Blackwells Island had also claimed all three children of a couple named Thomas and Mary McCormack.
		So when Thomas frequently bragged of the three children he had fathered by another woman, his wife was more receptive to the idea of adopting them than she might otherwise have been.
	www.geocities.com /tammyluvslife/maryellen.html (807 words)

	Afiwi.Com - Your Caribbean Online
		In 1964 Cliff joined Byron Lee and the Dragonaires as their vocalist on a tour organized by local politician Edward Seaga to promote the Jamaica with its the popular Ska music.
		Cliff met producer Chris Blackwell at a performance at the New York Worlds Fair.
		Blackwell had just scored an International hit with Millie Smalls song Lollipop and convinced Cliff to move to London in 1965.
	www.afiwi.com /people2.asp?id=143 (388 words)

	Fifteen - Queensboro Bridge
		Its mile and a half of mighty steel structure reaches from Second Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street well into Queens County, Long Island.
		Far below it in the middle of the river is Blackwells Island, on the south end of which is one of the city hospitals.
		The rest of this island is the cheerless home of an ever-changing group of those unfortunates, who through some unkind trick of fate have slipped, or have seemed to slip, into that uncharted realm vaguely called "Without the Law."
	www.people.virginia.edu /~sat4n/15.html (97 words)

	New York City Walking Tours \| Big Onion
		A few years ago he completed a research project on the history of Bellevue Hospital and the New York City Lunatic Asylum on Blackwells Island.
		His interests also include the rise of psychiatry, psychology and psychotherapy in the United States during the mid to late twentieth century.
		In addition to leading tours, Ted teaches history at the College of Staten Island and English literature at St. Johns University.
	www.bigonion.com /information/guides.html (2324 words)

	Emma Goldman
		Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to him as) was jailed for several years.
		She was imprisoned in 1893 at Blackwells Island penitentiary for publicly urging unemployed workers that they should "Ask for work.
		If they do not give you work, ask for bread.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/e/em/emma_goldman.html (828 words)

	Letters of George and Theron Guernsey, 76th NYSV (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		on the Island where we are we can see all kind of craft from the three masted ship down to the one masted cutter and from the great steam ships down to the little steam tugs.
		Flushing a place on it is in sight of heare.
		This Island belongs to the Col Riker and is named after him.
	www.bpmlegal.com /76NY/76guernseytg.html (645 words)

	Alibris: Serena Graff
		In 1914 in New York City, 11-year-old Alex and his sister, Anna, are trying to make the most of life without their mother.
		But Alex soon finds himself sent to the juvenile work camp on Blackwell's Island, a place full of lunatics, incurables, and ghosts.
		We guarantee the condition of every book, new or used.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Serena_Graff (113 words)

	NAMI Stigma Busters (Sept. 2002)
		From day one, she took risks of all sorts to get accurate, first hand information.
		For her first assignment she feigned insanity in order to be committed to the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwells Island (now Roosevelt Island) and to expose the poor treatment of patients.
		Her focus on social issues helped open the journalism profession to women who wanted to write “hard news” rather than be relegated to light features and society columns.
	www.namiscc.org /Advocacy/2002/Fall/StigmaBustersSept.htm (810 words)

	Map Of New York And The Adjacent Cities. / Colton, G.W. / 1856
		Note: In full color oriented with north to the right.
		Ellis Island, Governors Island and Blackwells (now Roosevelt) Islands are included.
		Full Title: Map Of New York And The Adjacent Cities.
	www.davidrumsey.com /maps3586.html (532 words)

	The Authentic History Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Rube and Mandy at Coney Island part 1
		Rube and Mandy at Coney Island part 2
		Rube and Mandy at Coney Island part 3
	www.authentichistory.com /donations/list_0184_films_1903.html (59 words)

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