Saturday, December 16, 2017

Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Pizza Tour, and 9/11 Memorial

I took a few days off during my dad's visit to NYC to do a few touristy New York visits.

Fun facts Statue of Liberty - the original color was copper but then changed to liberty green after oxidizing, which actually protects the statue.



Ellis Island at its peak took in 10K immigrants per day. We toured the hospital to see what happened to people who were flagged as having issues. The area was also used as a military facility.









Did you know that pizza started off as a Greek pita where they added a few tasty treats (cheap sardines) to make it sellable? Someone mispronounced pita to pizza and that is how the name pizza came to be. Then Queen Margarita made it OK for rich people to consume by giving her thumbs up. And then Lombardi came to America and made pizza from a coal oven - people who worked for him like Patsy, John, and Grimaldi then started their own shops. In the 1940s, a movable metal oven was created and that's how it spread across the country.












 

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