A section of Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" or "Flying Boat" being moved (with a police escort) from the Hughes Aircraft plant in Culver City, California to Terminal Island in the Los Angeles Harbor where the plane was assembled in June of 1946.
The New York-New York Hotel/Casino opened on January 3, 1997, and is a MGM Resorts International property. It is located on the Tropicana-Las Vegas Boulevard intersection with the MGM Grand Las Vegas, the Excalibur, and Tropicana Las Vegas. The New York-New York was the first casino on the Las Vegas Strip to be a “city themed” resort and had cost $485 million to build. The hotel/casino was modeled after the New York City skyline and includes the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, and Ellis Island Immigrant Receiving Station.