After more than forty years, Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island will finally come to fruition, almost exactly as architect Louis I. Kahn envisioned it.

Yesterday, FDR Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island, in partnership with the New York Historical Society and the League of Women Voters, unveiled field of sunflowers on the steps of the park in ...

Roosevelt Island 360 generously suggests that perhaps, given the financial crisis, the Island could do without the FDR Four Freedoms Park proposed for the Island’s Southpoint Park. The Governor has ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt was, by achievement and general acknowledgment, a towering political figure and the country’s greatest president of the 20th century. He was also a New Yorker, growing up in the ...

When: May 16 – June 2, 2025 Park hours: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM, Wednesday through Monday (Closed on Tuesdays) The event is to celebrate the right to read freely, encourage public discourse, and offer ...

This Aug. 24, 2012 photo provided by FDR Four Freedoms Park LLC, shows the New York City memorial park, honoring President Franklin D. Roosevelt, that has been completed 40 years after the original ...

This fall, acclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei will plant a major outdoor installation at New York’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, kicking off the park’s Art X Freedom program ...