Editing Roosevelt Island (section)

=== Visitors ===
* [[Charles Dickens]]&nbsp;– described conditions at the "[[The Octagon (Roosevelt Island, New York)|Octagon]]", an [[Psychiatric hospital|asylum]] for the [[mentally ill]] then located on the northern portion of the island, in his ''[[American Notes]]'' (1842)<ref name="Conn 1989" />
* [[William Wallace Sanger]]&nbsp;– physician-in-chief at the Blackwell's Island Hospital,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Klem |first1=M. |last2=McDowell |first2=M. |title=Pity for Evil: Suffrage, Abortion, and Women's Empowerment in Reconstruction America |publisher=Encounter Books |year=2023 |isbn=978-1-64177-340-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J8TOEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA42 |access-date=March 25, 2024 |page=42}}</ref> wrote here the book ''[[The History of Prostitution]]'' including his experiences as physician-in-chief<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sanger |first=William Wallace |title=The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes and Effects throughout the World |publisher=BoD – Books on Demand |isbn=978-3-7524-2830-8 |publication-date=April 1, 1859}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Lister]]&nbsp;- near the end of his trip to the United States, performed an operation at [[City Hospital (Roosevelt Island)|Charity Hospital]] on Blackwell's Island (1876)<ref>{{harvnb|Horn|2018|ps=.|page=204}}</ref>
* [[Nellie Bly]]&nbsp;– went undercover as a patient in the Women's Lunatic Asylum and reported what happened in the ''[[New York World]]'' as well as her book ''[[Ten Days in a Mad-House]]'' (1887)<ref>{{cite web |last=Markel |first=Dr. Howard |date=May 5, 2018 |title=How Nellie Bly went undercover to expose abuse of the mentally ill |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-nellie-bly-went-undercover-to-expose-abuse-of-the-mentally-ill |access-date=March 25, 2024 |website=PBS NewsHour}}</ref>
* [[Egon Erwin Kisch]]&nbsp;– visited the Welfare Island penitentiary under a false name (Mister Becker) for the report "Prisons on an Island on East River" as part of his reportage Volume "Paradise America" (1930)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kisch |first1=E.E. |last2=Segel |first2=H.B. |title=Egon Erwin Kisch, the Raging Reporter: A Bio-anthology |publisher=Purdue University Press |series=Central European Studies |year=1997 |isbn=978-1-55753-100-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BB3AicjSyLwC&pg=PA40 |access-date=March 25, 2024 |page=40}}</ref>