why was the u.n. put into the united states?

Question

I know it isn't technically in the united states, but why is it here?

Answer 1

Because the Rockefeller family paid for it.

'The United Nations Headquarters were constructed in New York City in 1949 and 1950 beside the East River, on seventeen acres of land purchased from the foremost New York real estate developer of the time, William Zeckendorf. This purchase was arranged by Nelson Rockefeller, after an initial offer of placing it on the Rockefeller family estate of Kykuit was rejected as being too isolated from Manhattan. The $8.5 million purchase was then funded by his father, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who donated it to the City.'

Answer 2

Padington is correct on the aspects of the actual site in New York.

Roosevelt during WW-2 pushed for the re-establishment of the defunct "League of Nations", and this became the U.N. with the main allies as the 'permanent members of the security council.'

The headquarters of the UN is in New York, but the other main office in in Geneva, Switzerland where many of the UN operational organisations are based.

Answer 3

Because a republican governor, donated and took the tax deduction for doing so, land and now the UN HQs. rests on that property. A better place would have been the South Pole which belongs to the UN anyway!

Answer 4

we have the deepest pockets.