I was lucky. On the day I visited the new Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on the southernmost tip of Roosevelt Island in New York City, I was alone except for the park's executive director ...

The Chinese artist’s commentary “on what is unfolding politically and culturally in our time” has a lighthearted note: cat-patterned camouflage. The work inaugurates a new art series at the park. By ...

Editor’s Note: All photos and observations were taken and made before Post-tropical cylcone Sandy swept through New York on Monday. Wrapping the tip of Roosevelt Island that points out to the sea, the ...

At the southernmost point of Roosevelt Island, in the heart of New York City’s East River, stands a monumental bronze bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States. The island ...

Recently, a crowd gathered on an Estonian island to pay tribute to Louis Kahn, a native son who was one of the twentieth century’s leading architects. As the ceremony unfolded, events past and present ...

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 ...

It’s Pride Month and that means New York City’s largest Pride flag, located at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, is back and more colorful than ...

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 ...

In early December, over 300 volunteers crowded onto the lawn of New York’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, designed by Louis Kahn. The crowd gathered to form a waving embodiment of the ...

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is being dedicated Wednesday in New York City. Some background on the park and how it came to be: — It’s named after his State of the Union address given ...

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 ...