Roosevelt Island Main Street Vacant Stores Get Historical Window Treatments

More progress has been made in making the long-vacant Main Street retail stores less of an ugly eyesore. In addition to the frosted windows installed last week, historical Roosevelt Island photographs and images have been placed in two windows panes of the former pizza place creating a more attractive storefront area than the previous orange drapery window coverings.

Some of the historical images include the Welfare Island Trolley that traveled along the 59th Street Bridge dropping passengers off at an elevator that took them down to Welfare (Roosevelt) Island, cartoons and mug shots of prisons inmate such as Boss Tweed and old pictures of Blackwell's and Welfare Island before it was re-named Roosevelt Island. The Roosevelt Island Historical Society has more images here.

Good job by those residents who came up with this idea and RIOC for implementing it. Now let's do something similar with the other vacant Main Street store windows.