Roosevelt Island

noun

1. an island in the East River, New York City: residential community. 1½ miles (2½ km) long. Formerly Wel·fare Island,.
2. an island in Antarctica, in the western part of the Ross Ice Shelf: discovered 1934. About 90 miles (145 km) long.

Example Sentences

Because of the high-profile nature of the trial, as many as 500 people from New York's Manhattan and neighbouring Roosevelt Island could be chosen as prospective jurors.

From BBC

Harriet Pattison, 94, a noted landscape architect whose projects included the grounds of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and the memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt on Roosevelt Island in New York City, both of them collaborations with architect Louis Kahn, with whom she had a son, died on Monday at her home in Newtown Square, Pa.

From Seattle Times

The fireworks began around 7:30 p.m., and came from a barge near the Kennedy Center and Theodore Roosevelt Island in the river.

From Washington Times

Harriet Pattison, a noted landscape architect whose projects included the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth and the memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt on Roosevelt Island in New York City, both of them collaborations with the architect Louis Kahn, with whom she had a son, died on Wednesday at her home in Newtown Square, Pa. She was 94.

From New York Times

Molina, known as Jay, is a resident of Coler Rehabilitation and Nursing Care Center, the facility on which the documentary is centered, located on Roosevelt Island.

From New York Times