A Jewish women (Emma Lazarus) wrote the poem on the Statue of Liberty. Jewish women (including my paternal grandma, whose memory is an absolute blessing) made up a majority of NYC public school teachers. American Jews built Broadway, and time square, including Adolph S. Ochs who started it’s iconic annual New-Years-Eve party for 1904, and Jacob Starr who 3yrs later designed the first ball drop for 1907. Italian Americans built; the NYC subway, the Bronx Zoo, Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn), the Manhattan Bridge (connecting manhattan and Brooklyn), and the Gorge Washington Bridge (connecting manhattan and New Jersey). Irish Americans made up a majority of NYC fire fighters. Irish Americans built; Cent Park, Erie Canal, the NYC railroads, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Brooklyn bridge (connecting manhattan and Brooklyn), and Queensboro Bridge (connecting manhattan and Queens). Italian and Irish immigrants together built the Empire State Building.