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Statue of Liberty
The star of New York City, the french built Statue of Liberty, is the biggest statue at least in the US, relating to one of the seven Wonders of the old world, the Statue of Zeus in Greece. Finished in 1886, it now symbolizes freedom, and the free world. The cost at the time was 250.000$. A poem by Emma Lazarus was added to the base :
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 !
Its the statue seen from Brooklyn Bridge, a small speck on the horizon.
As seen from Battery Park, also with Ellis Island on the right.
As seen from the Circle Line Ferry, cruising closer.
And the master shots, as close as possible on the boat.
This is Ellis Island. It served back then to welcome immigrants to NY, for the first half of the 20th century. More than 15 million people passed through the doors there.
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