[Answer] Who gave the United Nations the land to build their New York headquarters?

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Who gave the United Nations the land to build their New York headquarters?

• John D. Rockefeller Jr.:The United Nations was created in 1944 and immediately began looking for a home, with Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco among the courtiers. When philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, Jr. surprisingly offered a gift of six blocks of Manhattan real estate, the UN had found its new home. The UN headquarters in New York City sits on 18 acres of land along the East River, purchased with an $8.5 million donation by the Rockefeller family. "If this property can be useful to you in meeting the great responsibilities entrusted to you by the people of the world," Rockefeller told the delegates, "it will be a source of infinite satisfaction to me and my family.

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