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Although many New Yorkers can call themselves cultural authorities, New York is also home to a select few intellectual authorities: scholars who have devoted their studies to illustrating this often forgotten New York City, and its catalysts for historical change.
The Eye interviewed six of these professors, asking them which landmarks they believed are the most important and compelling—and yet most overlooked—in the recent history of New York.
Roosevelt Island
At one point in time, New York City exported most of its problems to Roosevelt Island, now a cozy off-shore town. The small strip of land in the East River—known first as Blackwell’s Island, then Welfare Island in 1921, and Roosevelt Island in 1973—housed some of the city’s most famous “undesirables” in its penitentiary: Boss Tweed, Mae West, and Billie Holiday, who served a four-month term for prostitution charges.

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