Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park

Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park Four Freedoms Park Conservancy, Inc. Open 6 days a week 9 AM - 7 PM, closed Tuesday. Franklin D. It is the last work of the late Louis I.

supports programing at The Park, the Louis Kahn-designed Memorial to President Roosevelt, on the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, NYC. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is the only memorial dedicated to the former President in his home state of New York. Kahn, an iconic architect of the 20th century. The Park celebrates the Four Freedoms, as pronounced in President Roosevelt’s famous January 6, 1941 State of the Union speech.

08/08/2026

We love our guests! Thank you to everyone who visited in July. 💙

Michael, narrator: We’re about to explore a presidential memorial and a monument to universal freedom... Before we do so, I'm sure you're eager to know more about that stone ruin…

It's a Smallpox Hospital dating from 1856.

Gina: It was designed by the architect James Renwick Jr. who also designed Grace Church on Fourth Avenue, St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Michael: That's the voice of Gina Pollara, the architect responsible for building the FDR for Freedom State Park.

The Renwick Ruin used to be the southernmost point on the island. Everything south of it, for instance, where you stand now, was all created from landfill.

I want to introduce the visionary architect who designed this inspiring place.

Louis Kahn transforms spaces into places of profound resonance, blending grandeur and intimacy-the kind of places you don't just see but feel.

“In the bustling city of New York, there are such quiet places,” shares Lin in a 5-Star Google Review. ⭐️"The walk is fu...
07/14/2026

“In the bustling city of New York, there are such quiet places,” shares Lin in a 5-Star Google Review. ⭐️

"The walk is full of ritual, winding through tree-lined paths, passing President Roosevelt, and seeing the blank spaces surrounded by the Manhattan skyline. Louis Kahn seems to have magnified architecture into the city itself, using minimal elements to create the deepest pauses.” 💙

07/05/2026

Happy 4th of July! 💙 Thank you to everyone who visited in June, we love our guests!

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06/28/2026

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📷: NYC’s biggest Pride flag installation on the steps of FDR Four Freedoms State Park in 2018 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising. Photos by Cory Antiel and Nick Reid. 🌈

06/21/2026

Sharing from The New York Times: “Since late April, music has been coming from the trees at Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island thanks to 'Out of Silence,’ a free, site-specific work by the Finnish sound artist Hans Rosenström. The 15-minute piece was inspired by the composer Arvo Pärt and features the voices of the Estonian ensemble Vox Clamantis. Soak it in through June 21”. 🌳

06/15/2026

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See how The Room came together! ✨Kahn was appointed to design the park in 1973 to commemorate the life and work of Presi...
05/29/2026

See how The Room came together! ✨

Kahn was appointed to design the park in 1973 to commemorate the life and work of President Roosevelt. To bring his design to life, we brought in 190 individual stones that make up the Room. 70 stones measure 6' x 6' x 12' and weigh 36 tons—that’s 79,366 pounds each. The "columns" in the Room were set with one-inch wide slots between each stone.

05/25/2026

“I had this thought that a memorial should be a room and a garden.” said Louis Kahn about the FDR memorial in a lecture given at Pratt Institute. “I had this sense, you see, and the room wasn’t just architecture, but was an extension of self.”

More from Gina Pollara, the architect responsible for building the FDR Four Freedoms State Park: The only thing that I’ve ever been able to find that Kahn said specifically about the design is from a lecture that he gave at Pratt Institute in 1973.

And he said, I had this idea that the memorial should be a room and a garden.

Why a room and a garden? Because The Garden is sort of a gathering of nature, a personal control of nature. And The Room is the beginning of architecture.

Michael: So where does the garden end and where does the room begin?

Gina: Once you ascend the monumental stair, you are in the realm of The Garden. And then when you get down to the head, the idea is that Roosevelt welcomes you into what Kahn called The Room.

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05/20/2026

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1 FDR Four Freedoms Park
New York, NY
10044

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 7pm
Wednesday 9am - 7pm
Thursday 9am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 7pm
Sunday 9am - 7pm

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+12122048831

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