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RI DAILY

Manhattan's little, quieter island and beyond

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    Roosevelt Island Lighthouse Park, Winter Afternoon
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    Roosevelt Island Lighthouse on a Sunny Winter Sunday Afternoon

    Thought to have been built in 1872, the origin is so iffy no one is sure who did it. But it became the Roosevelt Island Lighthouse when Welfare Island changed names in the 1960s.

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