The New York Pops 1999 • New York City 100 Centennial Concert on Central Park’s Great Lawn – July 10, 1998 • OpSail '92/Columbus Quincentennial, South Street Seaport – July 4, 1992 • Columbus Avenue Festival, New York City – September 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988 • "Welcome Home the Troops" Celebration, South Street Seaport – June 10, 1991 • New York Daily News Blimp Race, Jones Beach State Park, NY – July 5, 1986 Single Engagements Cantor Fitzgerald Memorial Service, Central Park SummerStage – September 11, 2011 • Coca-Cola on Liberty Island, Liberty Island, NY – May 7, 2011 • The New York Pops
Liberty Island outmoded and obsolete, disused and its substantial stone walls were then used as the distinctive base for the Statue of Liberty given by the Third French Republic for the American 1876 centenary celebrations. It had become a part of the base for the Statue of Liberty after the island was first seen by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi, the statue's sculptor. The National Park Service (which had been created in 1916) took over operations of the island in two stages: in 1933, and the remainder in 1937. The military installation was completely removed by 1944. The statue, entitled "Liberty Enlightening the World",