Project Post: Empire State Building

Empire State Building 

You cant ride by city without noticing that huge skyscrapper wih alll the pretty lights on top. The Empire state buildin is a 102 skyscrapper located in mid town Manhattan. After the 9/11 atacks on the Twin Towers it stands as the tallest building in NYC. It opened in 1931. The name comes from New York Citys own nickname: The Empire State. There are 102 floors but the main observatory is on the 86th floor.The construction took only one year and fourty five days. Aproximately Four and half floors were built each week. Now the building houses around 1,000 businesses and has its own zipcode,10118. In 2007, approximately 21,000 employees work in the building each day, making the Empire State Building the second-largest single office complex in America. 

Perhaps what makes the empire state building so admirable is its awesome lighting at night. They change colors depending on seasons and events. Just recently the empire state got a a makeover with new floodlights that can display up to 16.7 million color possibilities, in digital combinations of ripples, sparkles, sweeps and strobes. Pretty cool  since the old floodlights, added in 1964 only came in 10 colors. Thats a whole new range of posabilities now.


All in all if your in the city to visit the empire state is a must with its obervatory on the 86 floor you can get a peep of all of NYC in just a couple of minutes.