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 for ferry service to and from the island. At the time of European colonization of the Hudson River estuary in the mid-17th century, much of the west side of Upper New York Bay contained large tidal flats which hosted vast oyster beds, a major source of food for the Lenape native people who lived there at the time. Several islands were not completely submerged at high tide. Three of them (later known as Bedloe's/Love/Liberty, Ellis, and Black Tom) were given the name Oyster Islands ("oester eilanden") by the Dutch settlers of New Netherland, the first European colony in the Mid-Atlantic