It’s been 20 years since disability advocates won the fight to have the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C. depict the former president in a wheelchair at the site. But they say ...

Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation (RIOC) and the Roosevelt Island Disabled Association (RIDA) announced plans to celebrate the 31 st anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with ...

As public spaces transformed into collective stories, memorials are inherently controversial. Didactic narratives about who we are and what we believe, they span generations and vast differences in hu ...

The weekend is set. Call your wife, husband, mother, father, son, daughter or best friend. Go see the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial on Roosevelt Island. You’ll think, smile and gasp. Maybe cry.

he Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial is more than a monument. It is a trip back to the Depression and World War II eras, with subtle symbolism leading the way. Sure, there are the obvious things to ...

On March 17, 1974, police found the body of a small-statured man with white hair, dead apparently of a heart attack, in a men’s bathroom in Penn Station. In his briefcase were plans and sketches for ...

Sculptor Robert Graham, whose massive bronze works mark civic monuments across the U.S., including the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, has died at age 70. Graham, who had been ailing ...

In October of 1919, the Roosevelt Memorial Association produced a film titled “Through the Roosevelt Country with Roosevelt’s ...