Tag: New York

The Empire State Building – A New York and American Icon

.Reading time 7 minutes.

Ninety-five years ago, on May 1, 1931, the iconic symbol of New York’s financial might, Empire State Building opened.  Conceived of and announced just prior to the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the building was meant to symbolize the financial might and ingenuity of the United States as it neared the end of the roaring twenties. […]

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Ellis Island, The Immigrant’s Gateway to America

.Reading time 9 minutes.

“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”.  So reads the inscription on the Statue of Liberty from Emma Lazarus’ 1883 sonnet “The New Colossus”. While Lady Liberty […]

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