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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Roosevelt Aerial Tramway

For some infuriating reason, I always just miss my chance to photograph the damn aerial tram when it is coming in over the East River, so I have had to get pic of tram car from internet... other pix  are my own.

Roosevelt Island is a long, narrow (and sort of weird) residential complex with a shopping area at one end ( and a bridge to Queens) with a new Memorial Park at its Southern End.

It has a subway connection as well as the Aerial Tram...but the station was of course flooded out during Hurricane Sandy and I am not even sure it is back in service now. The online MTA Travel Planner says it is, but they have been wrong about information before. I suggest you contact the MTA by phone in NYC if you want to be sure. ( That's 511, 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. weekdays).

I have never been on the aerial tram and my two visits to Roosevelt Island were both by subway.  I will have to go back and take pix some time in the future...they have a lot of apartment complexes out there stretched on both sides of the road which is like the spine of the Island. I believe there is still free bus service on this road. Check out the Wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_Island

The latest big news from Roosevelt Island was the opening of a new memorial park on the Southern tip.



This is from a Website called "History in the Headlines"

FDR Memorial Opens in New York

By Barbara Maranzani
New York has gained a new memorial to one of its most celebrated native sons: Four Freedoms Park, located on a 2-mile-long island between Manhattan and Queens. The site, which opened Wednesday after decades of delays, honors former New York Governor and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
FDR Memorial Four Freedoms Park


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