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The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a four-acre (1.6 ha) memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt that celebrates the Four Freedoms he articulated in his 1941 State of the Union address. It is located in New York City at the southernmost point of Roosevelt Island, in the East River between Manhattan Island and Queens.
The land was transferred to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation in 1915, becoming a public park called the Thomas F. Smith Park, later the Chelsea Waterside Park. In 2000, the westernmost block of 23rd Street was demolished as part of a reorganization of traffic patterns and an expansion of the park. [ 13 ]
Originally, the sculpture was located at his estate "Greystone" in Yonkers, New York, part of which is now owned by the City of Yonkers and known as Untermyer Park. The fountain was installed in Central Park in 1947 and is most easily accessed from the North Garden entrance at 106th Street and Fifth Avenue or the main entrance at 105th Street ...
"The Nutcracker" at the New York City Ballet is a holiday classic that draws thousands to Lincoln Center each year. The company has been performing George Balanchine's ballet every year since 1954 ...
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine [1] and Lincoln Kirstein. [2] Balanchine and Jerome Robbins are ...
The companies count among the world’s very best by any estimation: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, American Ballet Theatre, Ballet Hispanico, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and New York City Ballet.
The photobook “New York City Ballet: Choreography & Couture” chronicles the decade-long relationship between the dance company and elite fashion designers.
[30] [29] Stebbins was the first woman to receive a public commission for a major work of art in New York City. [ 29 ] The 8-foot (2.4 m) bronze statue depicts a female winged angel touching down upon the top of the fountain, where water spouts and cascades into an upper basin and into the surrounding pool.