Three visits and an apartment in Manhattan: what connected Elizabeth II with New York

Queen Elizabeth II has visited New York three times in her unprecedented 70 years on the throne. New York Post.

Britain's longest-reigning monarch, who died on September 8 at the age of 96, first visited New York in 1957 when she was 31. Elizabeth, then ruling for only five years, traveled by train from Washington, D.C. to Staten Island with her husband Prince Philip. And I got to Manhattan on an army ferry.

She saw a newly built replica of the Mayflower in New York Harbor and headed for City Hall. Crowds of New Yorkers lined the streets to parade in her honor all the way to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in the city center.

The young ruler visited, among other things, the United Nations and admired the view from the top of the Empire State Building.

The royal couple returned to New York in 1976 for the bicentennial celebration.

Then they went to the Church of the Holy Trinity to collect the bank rent due to the crown - 279 peppercorns.

William III of England granted his charter to the church in 1697 for a rent of one peppercorn a year. But the church never paid, the New York Times reported at the time.

Elizabeth also went to Bloomingsdale, where she admired the goods of the department store.

"The Queen didn't choose Saks, and she didn't choose Bergdorf - she chose Bloomingsdale," store manager Marvin Traub once enthused.

Her Majesty avoided these five areas for more than three decades before returning for a final visit in 2010. Then she once again spoke at the UN and laid flowers at the September 11 memorial.

“She is a really nice lady,” said one of the relatives of those who died on that fateful day.

The Queen and Philip also visited with then Mayor Michael Bloomberg the British Garden in Hanover Square, dedicated to the 67 British victims of 9/11.

British expatriates living in New York gathered in the West Village on Thursday to mourn the Queen.

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Plaques have been installed at the British-themed Tea and Sympathy and A Salt and Battery restaurants, as well as at the Myers of Keswick grocery store.

Recallthat the queen was connected with New York and real estate. Elizabeth II purchased her 50 United Nations Plaza apartment for $7,9 million in 2015. The luxurious building in Midtown East was designed by Lord Norman Foster, who was knighted by the Queen in 1990. The building has 43 floors and a total of 88 residential units.