New York City ? George Washington, a Virginian, has his statue on Wall Street; Ohio-born Ulysses S. Grant has his tomb overlooking the Hudson.

But for reasons nobody can easily explain, New York native son Franklin Delano Roosevelt has no official memorial in this city.

Not that the name is forgotten: There is FDR Drive in Manhattan, Roosevelt Avenue in Queens and Roosevelt Island in the middle of the East River. There is also a memorial to FDR’s wife, Eleanor.

Now, after lying dormant for three decades, plans are being revived to give Roosevelt his due as the 32nd president and author of the New Deal, who led the United States through most of the Great Depression and World War II.

It would come in the form of a stone edifice at the southern tip of Roosevelt Island, a two-mile-long sliver of land renamed for FDR in 1973.