Liberty Island months in crates waiting for its pedestal to be finished, and was then reassembled in four months. On October 28, 1886, the Statue of Liberty was unveiled by President Grover Cleveland. The name Liberty Island was made official by Congress in 1956. On October 7, 2016, construction started on a new Statue of Liberty museum on Liberty Island. The new $70 million, museum will be able to accommodate all of the island's visitors when it opens in 2019, as opposed to the current museum, which only 20% of the island's visitors can visit. The original torch will be relocated here,
Liberty, New York David Cross's film Hits. The dark comedy has created controversy, as it represents the townspeople as a bigoted and narrow-minded bunch. Also one of the major settings in the novel So B. It by Sarah Weeks and the Stephen Gyllenhaal film based on the novel, of the same name. In 2017, The Town of Liberty was ranked as one of the 250 best towns to buy a home in New York, ranking #104. The report highlighted Liberty and other top-rated cities and towns using licensed data to analyze hundreds of New York towns based on several factors deemed important for