It is monitored with security technology, such as CCTV cameras, and the screening for visitors is similar to airport security procedures. Photos: Secrets of the Empire State Building. Hide Caption. Race into the Sky: Initial plans for the skyscraper were quite modest, but the "Race into the Sky" was just too much to resist and plans were revised to make it the story, 1,foot tall monolith we know now.
Manhattan landmark: It lost the title of world's tallest building decades ago, but the Art Deco skyscraper remains one of the most iconic tourist spots in Manhattan.
Opening hours: The Empire State Building is open days a year, from 8 a. Romance: The ESB is a popular proposal spot: there's a saxophonist on duty from 9 p. Big city lights: Be sure to check the Empire State Colors Twitter account esbcolors to find out what colors will be lighting up the building at night and what those colors honor holidays, sporting events and awareness months are popular ones.
Don't get too jealous of celebrities such as golf star Michelle Wie -- the narrow outdoor terrace is definitely for the brave of heart. Soon after Empire State Inc. They name former new york governor, Alfred E. Smith to head the newly formed corporation.
March 17, - Construction begins with 3, workers building 4. April - At completion, it becomes the tallest building in the world. May 1, - President Herbert Hoover turns on the building's lights, officially opening it, by pressing a button in Washington, DC.
Stevens and his business partners was brokered by the prominent upper Manhattan real-estate firm Charles F. At the time, that was the highest price paid for a single structure in real-estate history.
Over the years, more than thirty people have committed suicide from the top of the building. The fence around the observatory terrace was put up in after five people tried to jump during a three-week span. On May 1, , year-old Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the 86th floor observation deck and landed on a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Photography student Robert Wiles took a photo of McHale's oddly intact corpse a few minutes after her death. The police found a suicide note among possessions she left on the observation deck: "He is much better off without me The photo ran in the May 12, edition of Life magazine [ 33 ] and is often referred to as "The Most Beautiful Suicide".
However, some people have survived jumping off the building. On December 2, , Elvita Adams jumped from the 86th floor, only to be blown back onto the 85th floor by a gust of wind and left with a broken hip. Only one person has jumped from the upper observatory. On November 3, , Frederick Eckert, of Astoria , ran past a guard in the enclosed nd floor gallery and jumped a gate leading to an outdoor catwalk intended for dirigible passengers.
Eckert's body landed on the roof of the 86th floor observation promenade. At a. One engine shot through the side opposite the impact and flew as far as the next block where it landed on the roof of a nearby building, starting a fire that destroyed a penthouse.
The other engine and part of the landing gear plummeted down an elevator shaft. The resulting fire was extinguished in 40 minutes. The crash helped spur the passage of the long-pending Federal Tort Claims Act of , as well as the insertion of retroactive provisions into the law, allowing people to sue the government for the accident. A year later, another aircraft narrowly missed striking the building. On February 24, , a gunman shot seven people on the observation deck, killing one, then fatally wounded himself.
On August 24, at about 9 a. EDT , on the sidewalk at the Fifth Avenue side of the building, a gunman shot and killed a former co-worker from a workplace that had laid him off in When two police officers confronted the gunman, year-old Jeffrey T. Johnson, he aimed his firearm at them. They responded by firing 16 shots at Johnson, killing him but also wounding nine bystanders, most of whom were hit by fragments, although three took direct hits from stray bullets.
The building has 85 stories of commercial and office space representing 2,, sq ft , m 2. It has an indoor and outdoor observation deck on the 86th floor.
The remaining 16 stories represent the Art Deco tower, which is capped by a nd-floor observatory. Atop the tower is the ft 62 m pinnacle, much of which is covered by broadcast antennas, with a lightning rod at the very top. The Empire State Building was the first building to have more than floors. It has 6, windows and 73 elevators, and there are 1, steps from street level to the nd floor.
It has a total floor area of 2,, sq ft , m 2 ; the base of the Empire State Building is about 2 acres 8, m 2. The building houses 1, businesses and has its own zip code, As of , approximately 21, employees work in the building each day, making the Empire State Building the second-largest single office complex in America, after the Pentagon.
The building was completed in one year and 45 days. Its original 64 elevators are located in a central core; [ 47 ] today, the Empire State Building has 73 elevators in all, including service elevators. It takes less than one minute by elevator to get to the 80th floor, which contains a gift shop and an exhibit detailing the building's construction. From there, visitors can take another elevator or climb the stairs to the 86th floor, where an outdoor observation deck is located. The building has 70 mi km of pipe, 2,, ft , m of electrical wire, [ 48 ] and about 9, faucets.
It weighs approximately , short tons , t. The exterior of the building was built using Indiana limestone panels. This is particularly evident in the over-design of the building's electrical system. The modernistic stainless steel canopies of the entrances on 33rd and 34th Streets lead to two story-high corridors around the elevator core, crossed by stainless steel and glass-enclosed bridges at the second-floor level. The elevator core contains 67 elevators. The lobby is three stories high and features an aluminum relief of the skyscraper without the antenna, which was not added to the spire until These panels were eventually moved near a ticketing line for the observation deck.
Because the original murals, designed by an artist named Leif Neandross, were damaged, reproductions were installed. Over 50 artists and workers used 15, square feet of aluminum and 1, square feet of carat gold leaf to re-create the mural.
Renovations to the lobby alluded to original plans for the building; replacing the clock over the information desk in the Fifth Avenue lobby with an Anemometer , as well as installing two chandeliers originally intended to be part of the building when it first opened. In , floodlights were added to illuminate the top of the building at night, in colors chosen to match seasonal and other events, such as St. After the death of actress Fay Wray King Kong in late , the building stood in complete darkness for 15 minutes.
The floodlights bathed the building in red, white, and blue for several months after the destruction of the World Trade Center , then reverted to the standard schedule. Traditionally, in addition to the standard schedule, the building will be lit in the colors of New York's sports teams on the nights they have home games orange, blue and white for the New York Knicks , red, white and blue for the New York Rangers , and so on.
The first weekend in June finds the building bathed in green light for the Belmont Stakes held in nearby Belmont Park. The building is illuminated in tennis-ball yellow during the US Open tennis tournament in late August and early September. It was twice lit in scarlet to support nearby Rutgers University : once for a football game against the University of Louisville on November 9, , and again on April 3, when the women's basketball team played in the national championship game.
During , the building's metal halide lamps and floodlights were replaced with LED fixtures, increasing the available colors from nine to over 16 million. The computer-controlled system allows the building to be illuminated in ways that were unable to be done previously with plastic gels. When incumbent president Barack Obama had reached the electoral votes necessary to win re-election, the lights turned blue.
Had Republican challenger Mitt Romney won, the building would have been lit red. A video of the performance was posted online the next day. The building's distinctive Art Deco spire was originally designed to be a mooring mast and depot for dirigibles. The nd floor was originally a landing platform with a dirigible gangplank. It was also the tallest free-standing structure in the world for 36 years before it was surpassed by the Ostankino Tower in The longest world record held by the Empire State Building was for the tallest skyscraper to structural height , which it held for 42 years until it was surpassed by the North Tower of the World Trade Center in An earlys proposal to dismantle the spire and replace it with an additional 11 floors, which would have brought the building's height to 1, feet m and made it once again the world's tallest at the time, was considered but ultimately rejected.
With the destruction of the World Trade Center in the September 11 attacks , the Empire State Building again became the tallest building in New York City , and the second-tallest building in the Americas , surpassed only by the Willis Tower in Chicago. One World Trade Center, currently under construction, surpassed the roof height of the Empire State Building on April 30, , and became the tallest building in New York City—on the way toward becoming the tallest building in the Americas at a planned 1, feet m.
The Empire State Building has one of the most popular outdoor observatories in the world, having been visited by over million people. The 86th-floor observation deck offers impressive degree views of the city. There is a second observation deck on the nd floor that is open to the public. It was closed in , but reopened in November It is completely enclosed and much smaller than the first one; it may be closed on high-traffic days.
Tourists may pay to visit the observation deck on the 86th floor and an additional amount for the nd floor. The skyscraper's observation deck plays host to several cinematic, television, and literary classics including, An Affair To Remember , On the Town , Love Affair and Sleepless in Seattle. In the Latin American literary work Empire of Dreams by Giannina Braschi the observation deck is the site of a pastoral revolution; shepherds take over the City of New York.
On the nd floor of the Empire State Building there is a door with stairs ascending up. These stairs lead into the rd floor. This was originally built as a mooring mast for airships. The Empire State Building also has a motion simulator attraction located on the 2nd floor. Opened in as a complement to the observation deck, the New York Sky ride or NY Sky ride is a simulated aerial tour over the city.
The cinematic presentation lasts approximately 25 minutes. Since its opening, the ride has gone through two incarnations. The original version, which ran from until around , featured James Doohan , Star Trek' s Scotty , as the airplane's pilot, who humorously tried to keep the flight under control during a storm, with the tour taking an unexpected route through the subway, Coney Island, and FAO Schwartz, among other places.
After the September 11 attacks in , however, the ride was closed, and an updated version debuted in mid with actor Kevin Bacon as the pilot. The new flight also goes haywire, but this segment is much shorter than in the original.
The Empire State Building is currently [ when? New York City is the largest media market in the United States. Broadcasting began at Empire on December 22, , when RCA began transmitting experimental television broadcasts from a small antenna erected atop the spire. They leased the 85th floor and built a laboratory there, and—in —RCA was joined by Edwin Howard Armstrong in a cooperative venture to test his FM system from the Empire antenna.
NBC retained exclusive use of the top of Empire until , when the FCC ordered the exclusive deal broken, based on consumer complaints that a common location was necessary for the now seven New York television stations to transmit from so that receiving antennas would not have to be constantly adjusted.
Construction on a giant tower began. Other television broadcasters then joined RCA at Empire, on the 83rd, 82nd, and 81st floors, frequently bringing sister FM stations along for the ride.
Multiple transmissions of TV and FM began from the new tower in In , a separate set of FM antennas was constructed ringing the rd floor observation area. When the World Trade Center was being constructed, it caused serious problems for the television stations, most of which then moved to the World Trade Center as soon as it was completed. This made it possible to renovate the antenna structure and the transmitter facilities for the benefit of the FM stations remaining there, which were soon joined by other FMs and UHF TVs moving in from elsewhere in the metropolitan area.
Although easy enough to spot during the day, the iconic tower lights make the Empire State Building really stand out after the sun sets. In the lights were replaced with computer-driven LEDs, allowing for much more complex lighting schemes that can change in an instant to sixteen million different colors.
If a movie or television show takes place in New York City, you can bet there will be a shot that includes the Empire State Building. Although it is often used only in establishing shots, it has also played a starring role— in more than films, according the Empire State Building itself. The remake of King Kong is set in the s, and features an updated version of the scene.
Although the special effects and camera work of the version are modern, it copies the original quite closely. More than one character makes references to it, and it is the inspiration for the final meeting between the two main characters, which takes place on the 86th floor observation deck.
Although most visitors take the elevator to the 86th floor observatory, there is one opportunity every February to take the stairs. The Empire State Building Run-Up is an important event in the sport of tower running, which is exactly what it sounds like—running very fast up a man-made structure. Competitors in the Run-Up climb 1, steps, rising more than a thousand feet. By Paige Breisacher October 21, Save Pin More. Empire State Building Run-Up. Humans like to do amazing things just because we can.
Things like landing on the moon, inventing the Cronut, and building the tallest building in the world in 14 months at the height of the Great Depression.
For 41 years it was the tallest skyscraper in the world. Although its record has long since been broken, the Empire State Building still stands on Fifth Avenue as a testament to the power of human imagination and ingenuity, and hosts millions of visitors each year.
Start Slideshow. Empire State Building in the s. Credit: Archive Holdings Inc. Worker on the Empire State Building. Goodyear blimp flies near the Empire State Building. Observation Deck, Empire State Building.
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