When FDR Four Freedoms State Park opened in 2012, nearly forty years after work originally started in 1973, it became the 214th state park in New York. The park and memorial for former President ...

When the great architect Louis I. Kahn died at 73, in 1974, he had just finished the design for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, planned for the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, in New ...

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, on the southern tip of 2-mile-long Roosevelt Island between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, is being dedicated Wednesday.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt used a wheelchair for years but a New York City memorial in his honor is inaccessible to wheelchair-using visitors, a new lawsuit says.

New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman really likes Louis Kahn's FDR Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island. He praises the 4-acre memorial, calling it "a belated and monumental ...

Former President Clinton speaks today. (AP)An arial view of The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park (AP) Celebrating a design 40 years in the making, dignitaries on Thursday dedicated a new me… ...

If Franklin D. Roosevelt were alive today, the former President would have trouble accessing a New York memorial built to honor him, a lawsuit says.

Four Freedoms Park is Louis Kahn’s only design in NYC. The idea for a memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt was first brought up in 1970, when input from residents of New York City highlighted a ...

NEW YORK-- It's been nearly 40 years since New York City started planning a memorial to President Franklin Roosevelt on an island in the East River. Welfare Island was renamed Roosevelt Island ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --After 40 years, and many starts and stops, a new memorial park in honor of America's 32nd president will soon be open to the public. CBS 2's Ann Mercogliano was on hand for ...

It doesn’t take much to envision what Louis I. Kahn’s memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt will look like if it is eventually finished. It occupies a triangular, 2.8-acre site at the southern tip of ...

Lynn Sherr gets an insider’s look at New York’s stunning new memorial to FDR, ... As a student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Landscape Architecture in the late 1950s-early ...