Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park

Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
View from the park toward Lower Manhattan
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TypeState park
LocationRoosevelt Island, Manhattan, NY
Coordinates40°44′59″N 73°57′41″W / 40.74972°N 73.96139°W / 40.74972; -73.96139
Area4 acres (1.6 ha)
CreatedOctober 17, 2012 (2012-10-17)
Owned byNew York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
Operated byFour Freedoms Park Conservancy
Visitors176,372 (in 2021)[1]
StatusOpen all year
Websitehttps://fdrfourfreedomspark.org/

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a four-acre (1.6 ha) memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt that celebrates the Four Freedoms he articulated in his 1941 State of the Union address. It is located in New York City at the southernmost point of Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan Island and Queens. It was originally designed by the architect Louis Kahn in 1974, but funds were only secured for groundbreaking in 2010 and completion in 2012.

  1. ^ "State Park Annual Attendance Figures by Facility: Beginning 2003 | State of New York". data.ny.gov. Retrieved September 12, 2022.