Nikola Tesla the New Yorker

Although born in Smiljan, today's Croatia, Tesla found his true self in the USA. He lived in New York City for 60 years, and the city honored him, so you can say that love was mutual. Downtown Manhattan has been designated “Nikola Tesla Corner” due to its proximity to Tesla’s laboratory at 8 West 40th Street, where he worked in 1900. At that time, he was working on building his Tesla Tower on Long Island that finished ingloriously. A plaque that commemorates the Engineer’s Club awarded Tesla the Edison Medal in 1917. is placed nearby Bryant Park Place, where Tesla fed pigeons during his later years. Pigeons were his friends at his home in the New Yorker Hotel, where he spent his last days and eventually died in 1943. He was among rare people who can call a hotel his home, if not the only one.