Location- 350 Fifth Avenue New York,NY10118

Construction started- 1929

Construction Completed- 1931

Cost- $635M


The Empire State Building is a 103-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan,New York City, at the intersection of fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (380 m), and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 feet (443 m) high. Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, the Empire State. It stood as the world's tallest building for nearly 40 years, from its completion in early 1931 until the topping outof the original World Trade Center's North Tower in late 1970. Following the September11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was again the tallest building in New York although it was no longer the tallest in the US or the world, until one World Trade Center reached a greater height on April 30, 2012. The Empire State Building is currently the fourth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States after the One World Trade Center, the Willis Tower and Trump International Hotel and Tower, both in Chicago, and the 25th-tallest in the world the tallest now is Burj Khalifa, located in Dubai. It is also the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.

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The site of the Empire State Building was first developed as the John Thompson Farm in the late 18th century. At the time, a stream ran across the site, emptying into Sunfish Pond, located a block away. Beginning in the late 19th century, the block was occupied by the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, frequented by The Four Hundred, the social elite of New York.

This is the kind of house i dreamt of building in my village

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Excavation of the site began on January 22, 1930, and construction on the building itself started symbolically on March 17, St. Patrick's Day per Al Smith's influence as Empire State, Inc. president. The project involved 3,400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahn awake reserve near Montreal. According to official accounts, five workers died during the construction. Governor Smith's grandchildren cutthe ribbon on May 1, 1931. Lewis Wickes Hine's photography of the construction provides not only invaluable documentation of the construction, but also a glimpse into common day life of workers in that era.

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The construction was part of an intense competition in New York for the title of "world's tallest building". Two other projects fighting for the title, 40 Wall Streetand the Chrysler Building, were still under construction when work began on the Empire State Building. Each held the title for less than a year, as the Empire State Building surpassed them upon its completion, just 410 days after construction commenced. Instead of taking 18 months as anticipated, the construction took just under fifteen. The building was officially opened on May 1, 1931 in dramatic fashion, when United States President Herbert Hoover turned on the building's lights with the push of a button from Washington, D.C. Coincidentally, the first use of tower lights atop the Empire State Building, the following year, was for the purpose of signaling the victory of Franklin D. Rooseveltover Hoover in the presidential election of November 1932.

Empire Building Today.

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