Is it still winter? Maybe not in Southpoint and FDR Four Freedoms State Park

The calendar says it’s a week away, but it looked closer, much closer, in Four Freedoms Park. Visitors strolled through Southpoint to enter in a steady stream.

Photo: The entrance at FDR Four Freedoms State Park. And in the background, Southpoint and Cornell Tech.

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