Tuesday, August 5, 2025 at 6PM

In-person: Wallace Center at the

FDR Presidential Library and Home

CLICK HERE to register

Online: Streamed live to

the official FDR Library

YouTube and Facebook accounts

 

HYDE PARK, NY -- The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum presents a conversation and book signing with Bill Bleyer, author of THE ROOSEVELTS IN NEW YORK CITY, at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday, August 5, 2025. The event will be held in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home and streamed live to the official FDR Library YouTube and Facebook accounts. This is a free public event, but registration is required to attend in-person. CLICK HERE to register.

 

Synopsis:

The Roosevelts became one of America’s most distinguished families -- one with ties to many sites in New York City. A brownstone on East 20th Street where Theodore Roosevelt was born and developed his love of nature. Also, a twin brownstone next door where his uncle Robert instilled in the future president an interest in conservation, while having multiple affairs and even starting a second secret family with a mistress.

 

A double townhouse on East 65th Street was built by Sara Delano Roosevelt so the growing family of her son, Franklin, would have a suitable place to live while she meddled in their lives. Historian Bill Bleyer details the unique places in the city where family members lived and worked and unveils the private interactions behind this famous American family.

 

Bill Bleyer was a prize-winning staff reporter for Newsday, the Long Island daily newspaper, for thirty-three years before he retired in 2014 to write books and freelance for the newspaper and magazines. He is the coauthor, with Harrison Hunt, of LONG ISLAND AND THE CIVIL WAR, and author of SAGAMORE HILL: THEODORE ROOSEVELT’S SUMMER WHITE HOUSE, FIRE ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE: LONG ISLAND’S WELCOMING BEACON, LONG ISLAND AND THE SEA: A MARITIME HISTORY, GEORGE WASHINGTON’S LONG ISLAND SPY RING: A HISTORY AND TOUR GUIDE and THE SINKING OF THE STEAMBOAT LEXINGTON ON LONG ISLAND SOUND.

 

Please contact Cliff Laube at (845) 486-7745 with questions about the event.