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One lucky couple can enjoy a private dinner on the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building on Feb. 14 — but it will cost a cool $10,000. The experience, dubbed "Empire for Two," was cooked up ...
A viral social media post stating, “In 1945, a plane crashed into the Empire State Building,” was accurate and included an ...
In 1983, a giant inflatable King Kong was installed at the top of the Empire State Building to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the movie, but the figure popped early on, then a second time after ...
It was April 30, 1981, and — go figure — thousands of New Yorkers were bent out of shape. They had come to celebrate the 50th birthday of the Empire State Building, a structure as iconic as ...
Visitors to the Empire State Building haven't returned at pre-Covid levels yet, but their numbers are still trending in the right direction, according to the owner of the famed property. The ...
International visitors to the Empire State Building observatory remain around half that of pre-pandemic levels, ... Prior to the pandemic the figure was 2.5 million.
The Empire State Building is composed of 60,000 tons of steel, 200,000 cubic feet of Indiana limestone and granite, 10 million bricks, and 730 tons of aluminum and stainless steel. Click photo for ...
The Empire State Building was bathed in a rainbow of colors earlier this month. The tower lights were tie-dye hued on Aug. 1 in honor of the late Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia’s birthday.
Completed in 1931, the Empire State Building was the world’s tallest skyscraper until 1970, when it was eclipsed by the World Trade Center. In 1964, for the occasion of the World’s Fair, the ...