New York Life and its subsidiaries provide insurance, investment, and retirement solutions that help people at all stages of life achieve financial security, delivered through financial specialists nationwide.

New York City The company was founded on April 12, 1845 and has occupied its landmarked headquarters on Madison Avenue in New York City since 1928.

The song presents that if you can succeed in a tough city like New York, you can succeed anywhere else. It conveys the mindset of the city, its people, and all those who wish to have the opportunity to share in its wealth, fame and prosperity.

The company faced a massive $250 million judgment in 1995 when it failed to pay out promised returns to its policyholders. When Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme was toppled, New York Life - an investor in the scheme - faced lawsuits by policyholders who lost millions of dollars in the aftermath.

A mutual insurance company, New York Life is owned by its policyholders and has no outside shareholders. As a mutual, New York Life distributes a portion of its earnings to eligible policyholders as annual dividends. As of 2016, the company has paid a dividend every year since 1854.

It was named for the points created by the intersection of Park, Worth, and Baxter streets. Today, the Five Points neighborhood, once known as a center of vice, crime and debauchery throughout the nineteenth century is occupied by a center of justice - the Daniel Patrick Moynihan U.S. Courthouse.

Throughout its history, New York has served as a main port of entry for many immigrants, and its cultural and economic influence has made it one of the most important urban areas in the United States and the world.

New York Life has been insuring Americans for more than 175 years and is one of the most recognizable insurance providers in the U.S. The company maintains a stellar financial strength rating with each major credit rating agency, including an A++ rating from AM Best and an A++ rating from Standard & Poors.

The drop in crimes thereafter has been variously attributed to a number of factors, including these changes to policing, the end of the crack epidemic, the increased incarceration rate nationwide, gentrification, an aging population, and the decline of lead poisoning in children.

Record $2 billion dividend payout in 2023 New York Life declared a record dividend of $2 billion to eligible participating policy owners in 2023, the largest in company history. Paying a dividend3 for a 169th consecutive year highlights New York Life's ability to deliver ongoing, long-term value to clients.

Before that time, New York, and the United States at large, had been governed by the Anglo-Protestant founders. Although there were many tensions between the Africans and the Irish, their cohabitation in Five Points was the first large-scale instance of volitional racial integration in American history.

Originally the site of New York City's first free black settlement, by 1850 the Five Points district in lower Manhattan had instead become infamous for its dance halls, bars, gambling houses, prostitution, and for its mixed-race clientele.