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 ...

Decades late, FDR memorial park is ready to open on island in NYC's East River This Aug. 24, 2012 photo provided by FDR Four Freedoms Park LLC, shows the New York City memorial park, honoring ...

Presented by the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy and the National Coalition Against Censorship, Unbanned is a free, outdoor celebration of the freedom to read. At a time when books and ideas are being ...

A public art initiative marking the 80th anniversary of the U.N. is inviting artists to examine the state of democracy and social justice. The first featured artist is Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei, ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt was, by achievement and general acknowledgment, a towering political figure and the country’s greatest president of the 20th century. He was also a New Yorker, growing up in the ...

This fall, acclaimed artist and activist Ai Weiwei will plant a major outdoor installation at New York’s Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms State Park, kicking off the park’s Art X Freedom program ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Celebrating a design 40 years in the making, dignitaries on Wednesday dedicated a new memorial park to President Franklin Roosevelt overlooking the United Nations that he helped found.