Editing Roosevelt Island (section)

== Demographics ==
When the first residential buildings opened, Roosevelt Island's amenities and wheelchair accessibility made it attractive to disabled residents and families with children.<ref>{{cite web |last=Herman |first=Robin |date=January 25, 1979 |title=Roosevelt Island: Town Within a City |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/01/25/archives/roosevelt-island-is-a-paradise-to-some-a-prison-to-others-the-talk.html |access-date=March 21, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Many of the first residents were white, middle-income families,<ref name="Oser 1976" /> and disabled patients from the island's hospitals moved into the apartments as well.<ref>{{cite web |last=Clines |first=Francis X. |date=July 5, 1977 |title=About Newyork |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/07/05/archives/about-new-york-an-island-world-for-quadriplegics.html |access-date=March 21, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The island also attracted residents who wanted to live in a racially integrated neighborhood, as well as those who wanted to avoid [[housing discrimination]] in other areas.<ref name="Finder 1990" />

Due to its proximity to the [[headquarters of the United Nations]], Roosevelt Island attracted UN employees almost as soon as the first building opened.<ref name="Bailey 1974" /> A ''New York Times'' article from 1999 described Roosevelt Island's diverse demographics as being another factor in its popularity among diplomatic staff.<ref name="Hall 1999">{{cite web |last=Hall |first=Trish |date=November 14, 1999 |title=Habitats/Roosevelt Island; An Apartment in the City, But a Little Bit Out of It |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/14/realestate/habitats-roosevelt-island-an-apartment-in-the-city-but-a-little-bit-out-of-it.html |access-date=March 24, 2024 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The island has been home to many diplomatic staff over the years,<ref name="Seitz Miller 2011 p. 163" /><ref name="Ganeeva 2013" /> including [[Kofi Annan]] when he was [[United Nations Secretary General]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Janet |first1=Spencer King |date=March 15, 2012 |title=A life on Roosevelt Island |url=http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2012/03/life-roosevelt-island |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141010090607/http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2012/03/life-roosevelt-island |archive-date=October 10, 2014 |access-date=May 25, 2019 |newspaper=Cornell Chronicle}}</ref> One of every three Roosevelt Island residents was foreign-born by 2000.<ref name="Hughes 2007" />

The [[2020 United States census]] showed that Roosevelt Island had a population of 11,722,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?t=Populations%20and%20People&g=1400000US36061023802,36061023803,36061023804&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P1 |title=U.S. Census website |publisher=United States Census Bureau |website=census.gov |access-date=January 26, 2022 }}</ref> across three census tracts.<ref name="NYC Population FactFinder" /> The racial makeup of Roosevelt Island's three census tracts was 36.3% (4,251) [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 10.6% (1,237) [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 33.2% (3,897) [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 2.8% (333) from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 4.8% (564) from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] residents of any race were 12.3% (1,440) of the population.<ref name="NYC Population FactFinder">{{cite web |title=NYC Planning Population FactFinder |website=NYC Population FactFinder |url=https://popfactfinder.planning.nyc.gov/explorer/selection/5d6732b25012792e218757c80b213c99f7c8694a?source=decennial-change |access-date=December 21, 2023}}</ref> In the 2020 census data from the [[New York City Department of City Planning]], Roosevelt Island is grouped as part of the Upper East Side-Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island neighborhood tabulation area.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/planning-level/nyc-population/census2020/dcp_2020-census-briefing-booklet-1.pdf |title=Key Population & Housing Characteristics; 2020 Census Results for New York City |publisher=[[New York City Department of City Planning]] |date=August 2021 |access-date=November 7, 2021 |pages=21, 25, 29, 33}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Map: Race and ethnicity across the US |website=CNN |last1=Keefe |first1=John |last2=Wolfe |first2=Daniel |last3=Hernandez |first3=Sergio |date=August 14, 2021 |url=https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/us/census-race-ethnicity-map/ |access-date=November 7, 2021}}</ref> The neighborhood tabulation area had 59,200 residents.<ref name="NYC Population FactFinder" />

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[[File:United Nations Headquarters in New York City, view from Roosevelt Island.jpg|thumb|center|700px|The [[Headquarters of the United Nations]] as seen from Roosevelt Island]]