Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park

You are standing at the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, a site occupied by a memorial that remained a vision for nearly four decades. Although renowned modernist architect Louis Kahn designed the park in nineteen seventy-four, he died the same year, leaving the project in a state of uncertainty while New York City faced severe financial crisis. It took thirty-eight years of waiting and a massive private fundraising effort to finally break ground in twenty-ten, bringing Kahn’s original, precise architectural schematics to life.