There Once Was A Stairway To Roosevelt Island From Queensboro Bridge, Take A Look - When It Was Welfare Island

At one time, there was a stairway from the Queensboro Bridge to Roosevelt Island, then Welfare Island. The Twitterverse gives us a glimpse of that stairway. A glimpse of the stairway to Welfare Island, now Roosevelt Island. (Though the elevator from the Queensboro bridge was closed by 1966) pic.twitter.com/SsGeSyqW4W — Daniel Walber (@DSWalber) October 7, 2016 As reported in October 2015: