New York City has . . .

More billionaires than any other city in the world.
More gold bullion ($90B) than any other city.
More Chinese (outside of China) than any other city.
More Puerto Ricans than any other city.
More Jews (outside Israel) than any other city.
More than 800 spoken languages.
New York City was the first Capital of the United States.

The ($500,000) Bartholdi Statue of Liberty
From France to the United States on July 4, 1884
“The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus

“Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed sunset gates shall stand
A might woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mile eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin city frame.
“Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
With silent lips. “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-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”

This tablet, with her sonnet to the Bartholdi statue
Of liberty engraved upon it, is placed upon these walls
In loving memory of Emma Lazarus ~ July 22, 1849