The Empire State is a nickname for the U.S. state of New York , adopted in the 1800s. It has been incorporated into the names of several state buildings and events.
7-545: The source of the nickname is unknown and has puzzled many historians; as American writer Paul Eldridge put it, "Who was the merry wag who crowned the State ;... [as the Empire State];? New York would certainly raise a monument to his memory, but he made his grandiose gesture and vanished forever." The source of the term "Empire State" has been attributed to the state's wealth and resources, but there
14-786: Is best known for collaborating with the American decadent novelist and poet George Sylvester Viereck , who was imprisoned as a Nazi agent in the 1940s, on a trilogy of exotic fantasy novels from 1928 to 1932, My First Two Thousand Years: the Autobiography of the Wandering Jew , Salome: the Wandering Jewess and the Invincible Adam . A highly prolific author, many of his later books were published by E. Haldeman-Julius in his "Big Blue Books" series. He died at
21-580: Is some doubt regarding that. The 1940 Guide to the Empire State states that "it would gratify the people of New York if they could discover who first dared that spacious adjective." Historian Milton M. Klein proposed that the name may have accompanied the success of the Black Ball Line in 1818 "because of the signal advantage the regularity of shipping gave to New York's merchants over those in other coastal cities." He claims that, by 1820, it
28-497: The 1790s. Historian Alexander Flick claimed that the title was used as early as 1819, coinciding with New York surpassing Virginia in population and was "universally acknowledged and accepted" by 1825. Buildings and institutions inspired by the "Empire State" sobriquet include: Paul Eldridge Paul Eldridge (May 5, 1888 – July 26, 1982 ) was an American poet, novelist, short story writer and teacher. The son of Leon and Jeanette Eldridge ( nÊe Lafleur), he
35-701: Was a teacher of romance languages at the high school level in New York until his retirement in 1945. He was a lecturer on American Literature at the Sorbonne in 1913 and at the University of Florence in 1923. He later was an instructor of English literature at Saint John's College in Philadelphia, from 1910-1912, and was a member of the Authors' and Dramatists' League of the Authors' Guild of America. He
42-572: Was born in Bucharest , Romania on May 5, 1888 and immigrated with his family to the United States on August 15, 1900. He later married a fellow writer, Sylvette de Lamar (author of a 1932 novel Jews With the Cross ). He received his B.S. from Temple University in 1909, his A.M. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1911, and a doctorate from the University of Paris in 1913. He
49-575: Was clear that "Empire State" was in wide use, though he is doubtful that a clear origin of the term will ever be determined. George Washington in a 1785 letter to James Duane , New York City Mayor , called New York "the Seat of the Empire." Washington is said to have used the phrase "Pathway to Empire" when referring to the state in conversation with George Clinton , the New York Governor in
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