Active warfare is raging between the forces pressing for a monument to the first Roosevelt on Theodore Roosevelt Island in the Potomac, and TR.'s own living children, who wish to preserve the island as a wildlife sanctuary.

After graduating from Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School, he went to Adelphi University on Long Island to study graphic design.

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park was a park designed by the architect Louis Kahn for the south point of Roosevelt Island.

* 1931 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.

* 1927 – At 07: 52 Charles Lindbergh takes off from Roosevelt Field in Long Island, New York, on the world's first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

* June 23 – Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to accomplish the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane.

The 1889 Chapel of the Good Shepherd ( Roosevelt Island, New York ) | Chapel of the Good Shepherd in modern surroundings

Roosevelt Island — known as Welfare Island from 1921 to 1973, and before that Blackwell's Island — is a narrow island in the East River of New York City.

Together with Mill Rock, Roosevelt Island constitutes Manhattan's Census Tract 238, which has a land area of.

The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation estimated its population was about 12, 000 in 2007.

Roosevelt Island is owned by the city, but was leased to the state of New York's Urban Development Corporation for 99 years in 1969.

Most of the residential buildings on Roosevelt Island are rental buildings.

The following is a timeline of the history of Roosevelt Island since European colonization:

* 1973 – Welfare island is renamed Roosevelt Island after Franklin Delano Roosevelt

* 1976 – The Roosevelt Island Tramway opens, connecting the island directly with Manhattan.

* 1984 – The New York State legislature creates the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation ( RIOC ), with a nine-person board of directors appointed by the Governor, two suggested by the Mayor of New York City, and three of whom are residents of the island.

* 2010 – The Roosevelt Island Tramway is modernized.

Though small, Roosevelt Island has a distinguished architectural history.

Residential development of Southtown has brought new retail businesses to Roosevelt Island, including a Starbucks and a Duane Reade.

Roosevelt Island has long had a limited variety of restaurants, but as a result of Southtown development, two new restaurants appeared: Nonno's Foccaceria and Fuji East.

The Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation operates and maintains the island's government and infrastructure.

The Puerto Rican Operating Area, often inaccurately called the " Roosevelt Roads Operating Area ", was centered on the Virgin Pass and Vieques.

The tram is operated by LPOA ( Leitner-Poma of America ) on behalf of the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation of the State of New York, a state public benefit corporation created in 1984 to run services on the island.

The Home Owners ' Loan Corporation ( HOLC ) was a New Deal agency established in 1933 by the Home Owners ' Loan Corporation Act under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

President Roosevelt merged the RFC and the FDIC ( Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ), which was one of the landmarks of the New Deal.

* Roosevelt County Community Development Corporation

* Sheldon Parrish, One Square Mile: The History of Roosevelt, N. Y. From an Autobiographical Perspective, New York: Xlibris Corporation, 2009.

* 1933-Sweeping new programs proposed under President Roosevelt take effect: the Agricultural Adjustment Act, Civil Works Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, Farm Credit Administration the Home Owners Loan Corporation, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Public Works Administration, the National Industrial Recovery Act

Roosevelt also created an alphabet soup of new federal regulatory agencies such as the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) to oversee the stock market, and a reform of the banking system that included a system of insurance for deposits ( the FDIC --- the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ).

This traditional reading of the Commerce Clause was later disavowed by the Court, which after threats from Roosevelt began to read congressional power more expansively in this area, in cases such as National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation ( 1937 ).

President Roosevelt asked the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to buy gold above the market price to further devalue the dollar.

In 1971 The Urban Development Corporation retained Lev Zetlin Associates to select and design a transit connection to Roosevelt Island.

Topics addressed include the Business Plot, where in 1933, General Smedley Butler exposed an alleged corporate plot against then U. S. President Franklin Roosevelt ; the tragedy of the commons ; Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning people to beware of the rising military-industrial complex ; economic externalities ; suppression of an investigative news story about Bovine Growth Hormone on a Fox News Channel affiliate television station ; the invention of the soft drink Fanta by the Coca-Cola Company due to the trade embargo on Nazi Germany ; the alleged role of IBM in the Nazi holocaust ( see IBM and the Holocaust ); the Cochabamba protests of 2000 brought on by the privatization of Bolivia's municipal water supply by the Bechtel Corporation ; and in general themes of corporate social responsibility, the notion of limited liability, the corporation as a psychopath, and the corporation as a person.

In modern times, Maxwell House has distanced itself from its own original claim stating that the slogan was actually written by Clifford Spiller, former president of General Foods Corporation, and did not come from a Roosevelt remark overheard by Cheek-Neal.

Collapse of TC & I's stock price was averted by an emergency takeover by Morgan's U. S. Steel Corporation — a move approved by anti-monopolist president Theodore Roosevelt.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed Goldsborough to the director's board of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in 1935.

The area's development is overseen by the non-profit Roosevelt Row Community Development Corporation.

To encourage foreign investment, Roosevelt had the Reconstruction Finance Corporation purchase gold with dollars, thereby driving up the price of gold and reducing the value of the dollar.

* RIOC Roosevelt Island Tram Modernization Project

The United States Postal Service operates the Roosevelt Island Station at 694 Main Street.

In order to cover that state, WPTZ operates secondary facilities known as the Vermont Bureau on Roosevelt Highway ( U. S. 2 / U. S. 7 ) in Colchester.

Kent Schools also operates a preschool program housed at Davey Elementary School, and is a member of the Six District Educational Compact with five surrounding districts to facilitate vocational education with many of these programs housed at Theodore Roosevelt High School.