Ed Koch (1924—2013) was Mayor of New York City from 1977 through 1989. In this funny vintage Snapple commercial from 1993, watch as the former Mayor defends New York's honor by visiting a Kentucky man who wrote that "Snapple is a super product. Perhaps the only good that has ever come out of New York." Check it out!

New York City Food Crawls: Touring the Neighborhoods One Bite & Libation at a Time is a new digital and paperback book from foodie blogger sisters Ali Zweben Imber and Daryl Zweben Hom. Using their experience of local restaurant reviews from The Sisterhood of the Unbuttoning Pants, the duo put together a book highlighting their top picks in New York City neighborhoods. Inside, you will find mostly Manhattan coverage, but a few Brooklyn neighborhoods are there, as well as a little bit of coverage in Queens, The Bronx, and Staten Island.

New York City Food Crawls is an exciting culinary tour through this historic yet modern city. Discover the hidden gems and long-standing institutions of New York City neighborhoods. Each crawl is the complete recipe for a great night out, the perfect tourist day, a new way to experience your own city, or simply food porn and great stories to enjoy from home. Hit the Theater District for dinner and a show. Find the hottest spots to hit mid-shopping spree, and take brunch to a whole new level any day of the week. Put on your walking shoes and your stretchy pants, and dig into the Big Apple one dish at a time.

While the words "food crawl" are indeed in the title, the book is more of a neighborhood guide as it would be impossible to hit all of these spots on one outing. We know, because we have tried.

New York City Food Crawls: Touring the Neighborhoods One Bite & Libation at a Time is available on Amazon for $9.99.

Gifted to the United States in 1885 to celebrate and commemorate our centennial anniversary the following year, the Statue of Liberty originally arrived in pieces, displayed around New York City to raise support for the financing of the pedestal. With a campaign and donation matching request led by newspaper tycoon Joseph Pulitzer, the fundraising efforts took over 10 years to determine a permanent location for the statue and to raise enough to pay for its pedestal, as the United States Congress refused to finance it.

Standing at just over 151-feet-tall, Lady Liberty is the tallest statue in the United States. She is mounted on the massive star shaped footprint and pedestal, which gives her a total height of 305-feet, 1-inch from ground level to torch, allowing her to be seen from anywhere with a clean line-of-sight in New York City and parts of New Jersey.

The Statue of Liberty National Monument sits on the aptly named Liberty Island and is managed by the United States National Park Service. The land was originally known to New Yorkers as Bedloe's Island, only being renamed to Liberty Island in 1956 by and act of the United Stated Congress. The island was private for a century following the Dutch surrender of Fort Amsterdam to the British in 1664, where the original owner, Captain Robert Needham, sold it to the namesake Isaac Bedloe. It shifted hands privately and to businesses until February 1758, when the City of New York purchased the island for one thousand pounds to hold terminally ill patients with infectious diseases.

After the United States won independence, the star-shaped Fort Wood was constructed on the island and was completed in 1811. Never used for battle, the aging fort was mostly dismantled for the mounting of the Statue of Liberty and pedestal, which maintained the original 11-point footprint for its foundation.

In this short aerial video from our Above New York series, see the Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island from a unique birds-eye-view on a gloomy day in New York Harbor. This is likely one of the last times you will see a drone video shot this close to the Statue of Liberty, as the FAA and DOI have recently imposed special restrictions on the proximity of flight to this, and other U.S. National Monuments. This video was captured before the new restrictions took effect.

Music: "Release" by Pogo