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One of the most recognizable landmarks in the world, the Statue of Liberty, was nine year project. It was started in eighteen seventy-five and it was finished in eighteen eighty-four. Although, it was not fully assembled in New York until the fall of eighteen eighty-six. The reason for this is that the pedestal wasn’t completed until early eighteen eighty-six. Today many people come every year to see the Statue of Liberty and take a tour of it. Up until recently, though, you have been able to go all the way up to the crown |
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The Ellis Island Immigration center was built in eighteen ninety-two, but it burned down in eighteen ninety-seven. The new Ellis Island reopened in December of nineteen hundred. Eventually, the immigration center would cover twenty-seven acres, including two smaller islands. One of those islands would house a hospital, established in nineteen-thirteen, which would keep patients with contagious diseases. Today only the Great Hall is open to visitors because the rest of the center needs to be restored.
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| The Empire State Building was started on March 17, 1930. It was finished in nineteen thirty-one. It was the tallest building ever to be built up until that point, and it remained the tallest until the first of the World Trade Centers was built in nineteen seventy-two. It took six hundred workers to build it. The building is one hundred and two stories high. It is still one of the best-known architectural landmarks of all time |
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Times Square got its name when the New York Times built a new building on 43rd Street. This took place at the turn of the twentieth century, and ten years later theatre, vaudeville, and cabaret came to the nearby streets. This attracted a lot of tourism to the area at that time, but the market crash of nineteen twenty-nine led to a sharp decline in theatre attendance. In the early nineteen eighty’s the city made major efforts to restore the neighborhood to its former glory. Although, some resent the makeover most agree that it makes Times Square more family and visitor friendly.
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