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The hospital has been stabilized and the land it sits on turned into a wildflower park.

Now by far the greater attraction is the stunning park memorializing FDR, an exercise in white granite and forced perspective with a fantastic view of the UN, which lies just to the south and is the only structure in the city designed by architect Louis Kahn.

He designed it shortly before his death in the early '70s, but construction didn't begin until more than 35 years later. It finally opened in the fall of 2012 and is the biggest tourist draw on the island; visitors from around the world combine a ride on the Roosevelt Island Tramway (of Spider-Man fame) with a pleasant walk to the park.