Roosevelt Light rail station

August 5, 2025

From inside Roosevelt Station, looking into the Link light rail tunnel. The neighborhood has seen steady infill around the station, with mid‑rise housing and small shops replacing surface parking and older low‑rise structures.

Downtown Seattle’s transit tunnel opened in 1990 for buses and was retrofitted for light rail in the mid‑2000s; Link began service through downtown in 2009, later extending north. Roosevelt Station opened in October 2021 with the Northgate Link Extension, connecting the U District and Northgate to the spine toward Capitol Hill, downtown, and Sea‑Tac. Photographed near NE 66th Street.