sentences:  The park, named after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was dedicated in the 1930s by Roosevelt himself and later named in his honor as part of a newspaper contest, which sought to commemorate his vision for municipal parks across America.The land was donated to the city of Albany as part of the New Deal, which included a large plan to develop the poverty-ridden city.The park remained mostly a solitary attraction on the fringe of downtown as the only large park in town during that era.