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 The Empire
State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper
in New York City. Its name is derived from the nickname
for the state of New York. It stood as the world's
tallest building for more than forty years, from its
completion
in 1931 until the construction of the World Trade
Center North Tower in 1972, and is now once again
the tallest building in New York after the destruction
of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
The Empire State Building has been named by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. The building and its street floor interior are designated landmarks of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, and confirmed by the New York City Board of Estimate.
Features
The Empire State Building rises to 1,250 feet (381 m) at the 102nd floor, and its full structural height (including broadcast antenna) reaches 1,453 feet and 8 9/16th inches (443 m). The building has 85 stories of commercial and office space (2,158,000 square feet / 200,465 square meter) and an indoor and outdoor observation deck on the 86th floor. The remaining 16 stories represent the spire, which is capped by a now publicly inaccessible 102nd floor observatory, and atop the spire is an antenna topped off with a lightning rod. The Empire State Building is the first building to have more than 100 floors. The building weighs approximately 370,000 tons (330,000 metric tonnes). It has 6,500 windows, 73 elevators and there are 1,860 steps from street level to the 102nd floor. It has a total floor area of 2,768,591 square feet (approximately 254,000 square metres).
Unlike most of today's high-rise buildings, the Empire State Building features a classic façade. 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 1952. The north corridor contains eight illuminated panels, created by Roy Sparkia and Renée Nemorov in 1963, depicting the building as the Eighth Wonder of the World alongside the traditional seven.
Long-term forecasting of the life cycle of the structure was implemented at the design phase to ensure that the building's future intended uses were not restricted by the requirements of future generations. This is particularly evident in the over-design of the building's electrical system.
New York's famous Empire State Building, a New York City Landmark and a
National Historic Landmark, soars more than a quarter of a mile into the
atmosphere above the heart of Manhattan.
Located on the 86th floor, 1,050
feet (320 meters) above the city's bustling streets, the Observatory offers
panoramic views from within a glass enclosed pavilion and from the surrounding
open-air promenade.
Since the Observatory opened to the public in 1931,
almost 110 million visitors have thrilled to the awe-inspiring vision of the
city beneath them.
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Address
350 Fifth Avenue
Fifth Avenue at 34th
Streets. |
Directions
By Subway:
1, 2, 3, A, C or E to
34th Street/Penn Station. Also B, D, F, N, Q, R or Path to 34th Street/Avenue of
the Americas
By Train:
To Penn Station: Long Island Railroad, New
Jersey Transit, Amtrak.
From Westchester/Connecticut: Metro-North to Grand
Central Station, subway shuttle to Times Square to 1, 2, 3 subway trains
downtown one stop.
By Car:
Drive into Manhattan via any connecting
bridge, tunnel or road.
By Bus:
From Northern Manhattan/Upper East Side,
M4.
From Upper West Side/Harlem, M10 south.
From Downtown/West Side,
M10-north.
From other Manhattan locations, any north-south bus to 34th Street
and transfer to M34 or M16. Disembark at Seventh Avenue.
From Northwest
Queens, take Q32. |
hours9:30am to Midnight daily.
Last elevators go up
at 11:15pm.
Open daily 365 days a year.
Admission
*
Toddlers (5 or younger) are admitted free when accompanied by an adult ticket
holder.
** Military personnel are admitted free when in full
uniform.
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