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What is Blackwell ' s island ? ​

Answer 1

• Blackwell's Island, now known as Roosevelt Island, has a deep connection to disability and incarceration. For much of the early 1900s, New Yorkers nicknamed the island Welfare Island after the asylums, prisons, and almshouses that were built there.

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Answer 2

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Blackwell’s Island, known today as Roosevelt Island, is a tiny sliver of an island in New York’s East River between Manhattan and the borough of Queens. The island has had several names over the centuries and multiple owners. The first residents of the island, then known as Minnahanock, were the Canarsie Indians.