Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island in New York City.
The last work in the exhibition is Four Freedoms Park on New York's Roosevelt Island.
The mayor's major tech legacy will be the establishment of an applied-sciences campus on Roosevelt Island.
"I've found myself sending people to Long Island City and Roosevelt Island, " two less-desirable neighborhoods outside of Manhattan.
Hennessy proposed that each department base three-quarters of its faculty in Palo Alto and a quarter on Roosevelt Island.
Seven universities submitted proposals for a campus on Roosevelt Island, and Stanford was widely viewed as the early front-runner.
And most passengers largely tourists and Roosevelt Island residents seem to swipe for their children.
In July, Stanford University submitted a bid to construct a satellite campus for applied science research on Roosevelt Island.
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The situation over at the Roosevelt Island Tramway is a bit different.
The settlements ended claims against state agencies including the Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Office, Downstate Medical Center, the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp.
The New York Genome Center was one of seven qualifying entrants to a city competition for funding and land to create a technology campus on Roosevelt Island.
's Coler-Goldwater Specialty Hospital and Nursing Facility on Roosevelt Island.
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But the most persuasive argument for the lasting power of strong architecture is the Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island, designed 40 years ago by Louis Kahn.
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The leadership of the Bloomberg administration in attracting university investment (Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology) for the development of Roosevelt Island was a brilliant move for the city.
Foremost, it's not easy to get to Roosevelt Island.
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Sure, NY has great engineering schools at Columbia and NYU. But with the now under construction Tech Campus at Roosevelt Island, the city has doubled down on engineering education.
Silicon Valley has Stanford and UCal Berkeley, but in addition to NYU and Columbia, New York will soon welcome the Cornell-Techneon academic research hookup slated to be built on Roosevelt Island.
But who will operate and maintain the park has yet to be ironed out among the new Four Freedoms Park Conservancy, the overburdened state park system and the often fractious Roosevelt Island Operating Corp.
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For example, a group led by New York University, which was an also-ran in the Roosevelt Island competition, plans to create an applied-sciences institute, called the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress, in Brooklyn.
With the announcement Monday, there are now three schools expanding their engineering programs in New York, all outgrowths of a city competition, launched in 2010, to create a technology and engineering campus on Roosevelt Island.
By dint of its extreme location on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, a site barely accessible even to the island's 14, 000 inhabitants, the four-acre park is already far removed from the rest of the city.
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In the past three years, Mr. Bloomberg changed the landscape of the city through zoning, helped create a new technology-focused university on Roosevelt Island, and continued his public-health initiatives, pushing through a partial ban on large-size sugary drinks.
Stanford University this week formally submitted a tentative proposal to the city of New York to build a campus for applied science research and graduate education on Roosevelt Island, with the intent that the campus would serve as a hub for innovation and economic growth.
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Here in New York, besides Washington and his Square (and his Bridge), we have Madison and his Square (and his Avenue), Lincoln and his Center (and his Tunnel), and Roosevelt and his Island (and his Drive).
On my way to Roosevelt Field Mall in Long Island, NY to sign and meet fans!!
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Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on the Canadian island of Campobello.
Roosevelt remarried two years later and moved into a home he had built on Long Island, in New York, yet he credited his time at the ranch with deepening the love and respect he had for nature that helped make him an early champion of conservationism.
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