Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park sits at the southern tip of Roosevelt Island in New York City. Louis Kahn was asked to design it in 1972, and Mitchell/Giurgola Architects continued his designs after his death in 1974. The state parks office owns it, and the Four Freedoms Park Conservancy operates it. The article names no style.
Earthwork began in 1994 and groundbreaking was in 2010. It was dedicated on October 17, 2012, and opened on October 24. The 4-acre (1.6 ha) park is a roofless granite temple of Mount Airy granite, with a double row of trees and views of the United Nations Secretariat.
A 1933 bust of Roosevelt by Jo Davidson stands in the courtyard. The article reports 176,372 visitors in 2021. It gives no hours.
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