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Empire State Building
Office skyscraper in Manhattan, New York

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco-style supertall skyscraper located in Midtown South, Manhattan. Designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and completed in 1931, it was the world's tallest building until 1970 and regained that status briefly after the September 11 attacks. Today, it remains an iconic New York City landmark with observation decks on the 86th and 102nd floors attracting millions of visitors annually. Featured in over 250 films including King Kong, the Empire State Building is celebrated as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World and holds landmark status from the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and the National Register of Historic Places.

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The Empire State Building is located on the west side of Fifth Avenue, between 33rd Street to the south and 34th Street to the north, in the Midtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City.2 Tenants enter the building through the Art Deco lobby located at 350 Fifth Avenue. Visitors to the observatories use an entrance at 20 West 34th Street; prior to August 2018, visitors entered through the Fifth Avenue lobby.3 Although physically located in South Midtown,4 a mixed residential and commercial area,5 the building is so large that it was assigned its own ZIP Code, 10118;67 as of 2012[update], it is one of 43 buildings in New York City that have their own ZIP codes.89

The areas surrounding the Empire State Building are home to other major points of interest, including Macy's at Herald Square on Sixth Avenue and 34th Street,10 and Koreatown on 32nd Street between Madison and Sixth avenues.1112 To the east of the Empire State Building is Murray Hill,13 a neighborhood with a mix of residential, commercial, and entertainment activity.14 The block directly to the northeast contains the B. Altman and Company Building, which houses the City University of New York's Graduate Center.15 The nearest New York City Subway stations are 34th Street–Herald Square, one block west, and 33rd Street at Park Avenue, two blocks east; there is also a PATH station at 33rd Street and Sixth Avenue.16

Architecture

The Empire State Building was designed by Shreve, Lamb and Harmon in the Art Deco style.17 The Empire State Building is 1,250 ft (381 m) tall to its 102nd floor, or 1,453 feet 8+9⁄16 inches (443.092 m) including its 203-foot (61.9 m) pinnacle.18 It was the first building in the world to be more than 100 stories tall,19 though only the lowest 86 stories are usable. The first through 85th floors contain 2.158 million square feet (200,500 m2) of commercial and office space, while the 86th floor contains an observatory.202122 The remaining 16 stories are part of the spire, which is capped by an observatory on the 102nd floor; the spire does not contain any intermediate levels and is used mostly for mechanical purposes.23 Atop the 102nd story is the 203 ft (61.9 m) pinnacle, much of which is covered by broadcast antennas, and surmounted with a lightning rod.24

Form

The Empire State Building has a symmetrical massing because of its large lot and relatively short base. Its articulation consists of three horizontal sections—a base, shaft, and capital—similar to the components of a column.25 The five-story base occupies the entire lot, while the 81-story shaft above it is set back sharply from the base.262728 The setback above the 5th story is 60 feet (18 m) deep on all sides.29 There are smaller setbacks on the upper stories, allowing sunlight to illuminate the interiors of the top floors while also positioning these floors away from the noisy streets below.3031 The setbacks are located at the 21st, 25th, 30th, 72nd, 81st, and 85th stories.32 The setbacks correspond to the tops of elevator shafts, allowing interior spaces to be at most 28 feet (8.5 m) deep (see: § Interior).33

The setbacks were mandated by the 1916 Zoning Resolution, which was intended to allow sunlight to reach the streets as well.34 Normally, a building of the Empire State's dimensions would be permitted to build up to 12 stories on the Fifth Avenue side, and up to 17 stories on the 33rd Street and 34th Street sides, before it would have to utilize setbacks.35 However, with the largest setback being located above the base, the tower stories could contain a uniform shape.363738 According to architectural writer Robert A. M. Stern, the building's form contrasted with the nearly contemporary, similarly designed 500 Fifth Avenue eight blocks north, which had an asymmetrical massing on a smaller lot.39

Facade

The Empire State Building's Art Deco design is typical of pre–World War II architecture in New York City.40 The facade is clad in Indiana limestone panels made by the Indiana Limestone Company41 and sourced from a quarry in south-central Indiana;42 the panels give the building its signature blonde color.43 According to official fact sheets, the facade uses 200,000 cubic feet (5,700 m3) of limestone and granite, ten million bricks, and 730 short tons (650 long tons) of aluminum and stainless steel.44 The building also contains 6,514 windows.45 The decorative features on the facade are largely geometric, in contrast with earlier buildings, whose decorations often were intended to represent a specific narrative.46

The main entrance, composed of three sets of metal doors, is at the center of the facade's Fifth Avenue elevation, flanked by molded piers that are topped with eagles. Above the main entrance is a transom, a triple-height transom window with geometric patterns, and the golden letters "Empire State" above the fifth-floor windows.474849 There are two entrances each on 33rd and 34th streets, with modernistic, stainless steel canopies projecting from the entrances on 33rd and 34th streets there. Above the secondary entrances are triple windows, less elaborate in design than those on Fifth Avenue.505152

The storefronts on the first floor contain aluminum-framed doors and windows within a black granite cladding.5354 The second through fourth stories consist of windows alternating with wide stone piers and narrower stone mullions. The fifth story contains windows alternating with wide and narrow mullions, and is topped by a horizontal stone sill.55

The facade of the tower stories is split into several vertical bays on each side, with windows projecting slightly from the limestone cladding. The bays are arranged into sets of one, two, or three windows on each floor.5657 The bays are separated by alternating narrow and wide piers, the inclusion of which may have been influenced by the design of the contemporary Daily News Building.58 The windows in each bay are separated by vertical nickel-chrome steel mullions and connected by horizontal aluminum spandrels between each floor.5960 The windows are placed within stainless-steel frames, which saved money by eliminating the need to apply a stone finish around the windows. In addition, the use of aluminum spandrels obviated the need for cross-bonding, which would have been required if stone had been used instead.61

Lights

The building was originally equipped with white searchlights at the top. They were first used in November 1932 when they lit up to signal Roosevelt's victory over Hoover in the presidential election of that year.62 These were later swapped for four "Freedom Lights" in 1956.63 In February 1964, flood lights were added on the 72nd floor64 to illuminate the top of the building at night so that the building could be seen from the World Fair later that year.65 The lights were shut off from November 1973 to July 1974 because of the energy crisis at the time.66 In 1976, the businessman Douglas Leigh suggested that Wien and Helmsley install 204 metal-halide lights, which were four times as bright as the 1,000 incandescent lights they were to replace.67 New red, white, and blue metal-halide lights were installed in time for the country's bicentennial that July.6869 After the bicentennial, Helmsley retained the new lights due to the reduced maintenance cost, about $116 a year.70

Since October 12, 1977, the spire has been lit in colors chosen to match seasonal events and holidays.71 Organizations are allowed to make requests through the building's website.72 The building is also lit in the colors of New York-based sports teams on nights when they host games: for example, orange, blue, and white for the New York Knicks; red, white, and blue for the New York Rangers.73 The spire can also be lit to commemorate events including disasters, anniversaries, or deaths, as well as for celebrations such as Pride and Halloween. In 1998, the building was lit in blue after the death of singer Frank Sinatra, who was nicknamed "Ol' Blue Eyes".74

The structure was lit in red, white, and blue for several months after the September 11 attacks in 2001.75 On January 13, 2012, the building was lit in red, orange, and yellow to honor the 60th anniversary of the NBC program The Today Show.76 After retired basketball player Kobe Bryant's January 2020 death, the building was lit in purple and gold, signifying the colors of his former team, the Los Angeles Lakers.77 The evening after iconic actor James Earl Jones died, September 9, 2024, the building was lit up to look like Jones's iconic Darth Vader villain from "Star Wars."78

In addition to lightings, the Empire State Building is able to do immersive visual projections on the building's exterior. It partnered with Netflix in May 2022 to celebrate the return of Stranger Things fourth season by projecting the Upside Down onto the Empire State Building.79

In 2012, the building's four hundred metal halide lamps and floodlights were replaced with 1,200 LED fixtures, increasing the available colors from nine to over 16 million.80 The computer-controlled system allows the building to be illuminated in ways that were unable to be done previously with plastic gels.81 For instance, CNN used the top of the Empire State Building as a scoreboard during the 2012 United States presidential election, using red and blue lights to represent Republican and Democratic electoral votes respectively.82 Also, on November 26, 2012, the building had its first synchronized light show, using music from recording artist Alicia Keys.83 Artists such as Eminem and OneRepublic have been featured in later shows, including the building's annual Holiday Music-to-Lights Show.84 The building's owners adhere to strict standards in using the lights; for instance, they do not use the lights to play advertisements.85

Interior

According to official fact sheets, the Empire State Building weighs 365,000 short tons (331,122 t) and has an internal volume of 37 million cubic feet (1,000,000 m3).86 The interior required 1,172 miles (1,886 km) of elevator cable and 2 million feet (609,600 m) of electrical wires.87 It has a total floor area of 2,768,591 sq ft (257,211 m2), and each of the floors in the base cover 2 acres (1 ha).88 This gives the building capacity for 20,000 tenants and 15,000 visitors.89

The riveted steel frame of the building was originally designed to handle all of the building's gravitational stresses and wind loads.90 The amount of material used in the building's construction resulted in a very stiff structure when compared to other skyscrapers, with a structural stiffness of 42 pounds per square foot (2.0 kPa) versus the Willis Tower's 33 pounds per square foot (1.6 kPa) and the John Hancock Center's 26 pounds per square foot (1.2 kPa).91 A December 1930 feature in Popular Mechanics estimated that a building with the Empire State's dimensions would still stand even if hit with an impact of 50 short tons (45 long tons).92

Utilities are grouped in a central shaft.93 On the 6th through 86th stories, the central shaft is surrounded by a main corridor on all four sides.94 Per the final specifications of the building, the corridor is surrounded in turn by office space 28 feet (8.5 m) deep, maximizing office space at a time before air conditioning became commonplace.959697 Each of the floors has 210 structural columns that pass through it, which provide structural stability but limits the amount of open space on these floors.98 The relative dearth of stone in the Empire State Building allows for more space overall, with a 1:200 stone-to-building ratio compared to a 1:50 ratio in similar buildings.99

Lobby

The original main lobby is accessed from Fifth Avenue, on the building's east side, and is the only place in the building where the design contains narrative motifs.100 It contains an entrance with one set of double doors between a pair of revolving doors. At the top of each doorway is a bronze motif depicting one of three "crafts or industries" used in the building's construction—Electricity, Masonry, and Heating.101 The three-story-high space runs parallel to 33rd and 34th Streets.102 The lobby contains two tiers of marble: a wainscoting of darker marble, topped by lighter marble. There is a pattern of zigzagging terrazzo tiles on the lobby floor, which leads from east to west.103 To the north and south are storefronts, which are flanked by tubes of dark rounded marble and topped by a vertical band of grooves set into the marble.104 Until the 1960s, there was a Longchamps restaurant next to the lobby, with six oval murals designed by Winold Reiss; these murals were placed in storage when the Longchamps closed.105106

The western ends of the north and south walls include escalators to a mezzanine level.107108 At the west end of the lobby, behind the security desk, is an aluminum relief of the skyscraper as it was originally built (without the antenna).109 The relief, which was intended to provide a welcoming effect,110 contains an embossed outline of the building, with rays radiating from the spire and the sun behind it.111 In the background is a state map of New York with the building's location marked by a "medallion" in the very southeast portion of the outline. A compass is depicted in the bottom right and a plaque to the building's major developers is on the bottom left.112113 A scale model of the building was also placed south of the security desk.114

The plaque at the western end of the lobby is on the eastern interior wall of a one-story-tall rectangular-shaped corridor that surrounds the banks of escalators, with a similar design to the lobby.115 The rectangular-shaped corridor actually consists of two long hallways on the northern and southern sides of the rectangle,116 as well as a shorter hallway on the eastern side and another long hallway on the western side.117 At both ends of the northern and southern corridors, there is a bank of four low-rise elevators in between the corridors.118119120 The western side of the rectangular elevator-bank corridor extends north to the 34th Street entrance and south to the 33rd Street entrance. It borders three large storefronts and leads to escalators (originally stairs), which go both to the second floor and to the basement. Going from west to east, there are secondary entrances to 34th and 33rd Streets from the northern and southern corridors, respectively.121122 The side entrances from 33rd and 34th Street lead to two-story-high corridors around the elevator core, crossed by stainless steel-and-glass-enclosed bridges at the mezzanine floor.123124125

Until the 1960s, an Art Deco mural, inspired by both the sky and the Machine Age, was installed in the lobby ceilings.126 Subsequent damage to these murals, designed by artist Leif Neandross, resulted in reproductions being installed. Renovations to the lobby in 2009, such as replacing the clock over the information desk in the Fifth Avenue lobby with an anemometer and installing two chandeliers intended to be part of the building when it originally opened, revived much of its original grandeur.127 The north corridor contained eight illuminated panels created in 1963 by Roy Sparkia and Renée Nemorov, in time for the 1964 World's Fair, depicting the building as the Eighth Wonder of the World alongside the traditional seven.128129 The building's owners installed a series of paintings by the New York artist Kysa Johnson in the concourse level. Johnson later filed a federal lawsuit, in January 2014, under the Visual Artists Rights Act alleging the negligent destruction of the paintings and damage to her reputation as an artist.130 As part of the building's 2010 renovation, Denise Amses commissioned a work consisting of 15,000 stars and 5,000 circles, superimposed on a 13-by-5-foot (4.0 by 1.5 m) etched-glass installation, in the lobby.131

Elevators

The Empire State Building has 73 elevators in all, including service elevators.132 Its original 64 elevators, built by the Otis Elevator Company,133 in a central core and are of varying heights, with the longest of these elevators reaching from the lobby to the 80th floor.134135 As originally built, there were four "express" elevators that connected the lobby, 80th floor, and several landings in between; the other 60 "local" elevators connected the landings with the floors above these intermediate landings.136 Of the 64 total elevators, 58 were for passenger use (comprising the four express elevators and 54 local elevators), and eight were for freight deliveries.137 The elevators were designed to move at 1,200 feet per minute (366 m/min). At the time of the skyscraper's construction, their practical speed was limited to 700 feet per minute (213 m/min) per city law, but this limit was removed shortly after the building opened.138139

Additional elevators connect the 80th floor to the six floors above it, as the six extra floors were built after the original 80 stories were approved.140141 The elevators were mechanically operated until 2011, when they were replaced with automatic elevators during the $550 million renovation of the building.142 An additional elevator connects the 86th and 102nd floor observatories, which allows visitors access to the 102nd floor observatory after having their tickets scanned. It also allows employees to access the mechanical floors located between the 87th and 101st floors.143

Observation decks

The 80th, 86th, and 102nd floors contain observatories.144145146 The latter two observatories saw a combined average of four million visitors per year in 2010.147148149 Since opening, the observatories have been more popular than similar observatories at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the Chrysler Building, the first One World Trade Center, or the Woolworth Building, despite being more expensive.150 There are variable charges to enter the observatories based on demand and time of day.151152 Though most tickets allow visitors to go to the 86th floor, an additional fee is charged for access to the 102nd floor. Other ticket options for visitors include scheduled access to view the sunrise from the observatory, a "premium" guided tour with VIP access, and the "AM/PM" package which allows for two visits in the same day.153

The 86th floor observatory contains both an enclosed viewing gallery and an open-air outdoor viewing area, allowing for it to remain open 365 days a year regardless of the weather. The 102nd floor observatory is completely enclosed and much smaller in size. The 102nd floor observatory was closed to the public from the late 1990s to 2005 due to limited viewing capacity and long lines.154155 The observation decks were redesigned in mid-1979.156 The 102nd floor was again redesigned in a project that was completed in 2019, allowing the windows to be extended from floor to ceiling and widening the space in the observatory overall.157158 An observatory on the 80th floor, opened in 2019, includes various exhibits as well as a mural of the skyline drawn by British artist Stephen Wiltshire.159160 An interactive multimedia museum, with multiple hands-on exhibitions about the building's history, was added during this project.161 The design of the 10,000 sq ft (930 m2) Observatory Experience was inspired by the plans and designs of the original Empire State Building.162

According to a 2010 report by Concierge.com, the five lines to enter the observation decks are "as legendary as the building itself". Concierge.com stated that there were five lines: the sidewalk line, the lobby elevator line, the ticket purchase line, the second elevator line, and the line to get off the elevator and onto the observation deck.163 In 2016, New York City's official tourism website made note of only three lines: the security check line, the ticket purchase line, and the second elevator line.164 Following renovations completed in 2019, designed to streamline queuing and reduce wait times, guests enter from a single entrance on 34th Street, where they make their way through 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) exhibits on their way up to the observatories. Guests were offered a variety of ticket packages, including a package that enables them to skip the lines throughout the duration of their stay.165 The Empire State Building garners significant revenue from ticket sales for its observation decks, making more money from ticket sales than it does from renting office space during some years.166167

A 360° panoramic view of New York City from the 86th-floor observation deck in spring 2005. East River is to the left, Hudson River to the right, south is near center.

New York Skyride

In early 1994, a motion simulator attraction was built on the 2nd floor,168 as a complement to the observation deck.169 The original cinematic presentation lasted approximately 25 minutes, while the simulation was about eight minutes.170 The ride had two incarnations. The original version, which ran from 1994 until around 2002, featured James Doohan, Star Trek's Scotty, as the airplane's pilot who humorously tried to keep the flight under control during a storm.171172 After the September 11 attacks in 2001, the ride was closed.173 An updated version debuted in mid-2002, featuring actor Kevin Bacon as the pilot, with the new flight also going haywire.174 This new version served a more informative goal, as opposed to the old version's main purpose of entertainment, and contained details about the 9/11 attacks.175 The simulator received mixed reviews, with assessments of the ride ranging from "great" to "satisfactory" to "corny".176

Spire

Above the 102nd floor

The final stage of the building was the installation of a hollow mast, a 158-foot (48 m) steel shaft fitted with elevators and utilities, above the 86th floor.177178 The spire of the Empire State Building was originally intended to serve as a mooring mast for zeppelins and other airships, although the plan was abandoned after high winds made that impossible.179 At the top would be a conical roof and the 102nd-floor docking station.180181 Inside, the elevators would ascend 167 feet (51 m) from the 86th-floor ticket offices to a 33-foot-wide (10 m) 101st-floor182 waiting room.183184 From there, stairs would lead to the 102nd floor,185 where passengers would enter the airships.186 The airships would have been moored to the spire at the equivalent of the building's 106th floor.187188

As constructed, the mast contains four rectangular tiers topped by a cylindrical shaft with a conical pinnacle.189 On the 102nd floor (formerly the 101st floor), there is a door with stairs ascending to the 103rd floor (formerly the 102nd).190 This was built as a disembarkation floor for airships tethered to the building's spire, and has a circular balcony outside.191 It is now an access point to reach the spire for maintenance. The room now contains electrical equipment, but celebrities and dignitaries may also be given permission to take pictures there.192193 A set of stairs and a ladder ascend to the spire and are used by maintenance workers.194 The mast's 480 windows were all replaced in 2015.195 The mast serves as the base of the building's broadcasting antenna.196

Inflatable objects have sometimes been mounted to the spire for promotional purposes. For example, a King Kong balloon was attached to the spire in 1983 to mark the 50th anniversary of the character's introduction,197 and an inflatable dragon was placed on the spire in 2024 to promote the TV series House of Dragon.198

Broadcast stations

Broadcasting began at the Empire State Building on December 22, 1931, when NBC and RCA began transmitting experimental television broadcasts from a small antenna erected atop the mast, with two separate transmitters for the visual and audio data. They leased the 85th floor and built a laboratory there.199 In 1934, RCA was joined by Edwin Howard Armstrong in a cooperative venture to test his FM system from the building's antenna.200201 This setup, which entailed the installation of the world's first FM transmitter,202 continued only until October of the next year due to disputes between RCA and Armstrong.203204 Specifically, NBC wanted to install more TV equipment in the room where Armstrong's transmitter was located.205

After some time, the 85th floor became home to RCA's New York television operations initially as experimental station W2XBS channel 1 then, from 1941, as commercial station WNBT channel 1 (now WNBC channel 4). NBC's FM station, W2XDG, began transmitting from the antenna in 1940.206207 NBC retained exclusive use of the top of the building until 1950 when the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ordered the exclusive deal be terminated. The FCC directive was based on consumer complaints that a common location was necessary for the seven extant New York-area television stations to transmit from so that receiving antennas would not have to be constantly adjusted. Other television broadcasters would later join RCA at the building on the 81st through 83rd floors, often along with sister FM stations.208 Construction of a dedicated broadcast tower began on July 27, 1950,209 with TV, and FM, transmissions starting in 1951. The 200-foot (61 m) broadcast tower was completed in 1953.210211212 From 1951, six broadcasters agreed to pay a combined $600,000 per year for the use of the antenna.213 In 1965, a separate set of FM antennae was constructed ringing the 103rd floor observation area to act as a master antenna.214

The placement of the stations in the Empire State Building became a major issue with the construction of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers in the late 1960s, and early 1970s. The greater height of the Twin Towers would reflect radio waves broadcast from the Empire State Building, eventually resulting in some broadcasters relocating to the newer towers instead of suing the developer, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.215 Even though the nine stations who were broadcasting from the Empire State Building were leasing their broadcast space until 1984, most of these stations moved to the World Trade Center as soon as it was completed in 1971. The broadcasters obtained a court order stipulating that the Port Authority had to build a mast and transmission equipment in the North Tower, as well as pay the broadcasters' leases in the Empire State Building until 1984.216 Only a few broadcasters renewed their leases in the Empire State Building.217

The September 11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center and the broadcast centers atop it, leaving most of the city's stations without a transmitter for ten days until the Armstrong Tower in Alpine, New Jersey, was re-activated temporarily.218 By October 2001, nearly all of the city's commercial broadcast stations (both television and FM radio) were again transmitting from the top of the Empire State Building. In a report that Congress commissioned about the transition from analog television to digital television, it was stated that the placement of broadcast stations in the Empire State Building was considered "problematic" due to interference from nearby buildings. In comparison, the congressional report stated that the former Twin Towers had very few buildings of comparable height nearby thus signals suffered little interference.219 In 2003, a few FM stations were relocated to the nearby Condé Nast Building to reduce the number of broadcast stations using the Empire State Building.220 Eleven television stations and twenty-two FM stations had signed 15-year leases in the building by May 2003. It was expected that a taller broadcast tower in Bayonne, New Jersey, or Governors Island, would be built in the meantime with the Empire State Building being used as a "backup" since signal transmissions from the building were generally of poorer quality.221 Following the construction of One World Trade Center in the late 2000s and early 2010s, some TV stations began moving their transmitting facilities there.222

As of 2021[update], the Empire State Building is home to the following stations:223

History

The site was previously owned by John Jacob Astor of the prominent Astor family, who had owned the site since the mid-1820s.225226 In 1893, John Jacob Astor Sr.'s grandson William Waldorf Astor opened the Waldorf Hotel on the site.227228 Four years later, his cousin, John Jacob Astor IV, opened the 16-story Astoria Hotel on an adjacent site.229230231 The two portions of the Waldorf–Astoria hotel had 1,300 bedrooms, making it the largest hotel in the world at the time.232 After the death of its founding proprietor, George Boldt, in early 1918, the hotel lease was purchased by Thomas Coleman du Pont.233234 By the 1920s, the old Waldorf–Astoria was becoming dated and the elegant social life of New York had moved much farther north.235236237 Additionally, many stores had opened on Fifth Avenue north of 34th Street.238239 The Astor family decided to build a replacement hotel on Park Avenue240241 and sold the hotel to Bethlehem Engineering Corporation in 1928 for $14–16 million.242 The hotel closed shortly thereafter on May 3, 1929.243

Planning

Early plans

Bethlehem Engineering Corporation originally intended to build a 25-story office building on the Waldorf–Astoria site. The company's president, Floyd De L. Brown, paid $100,000 of the $1 million down payment required to start construction on the building, with the promise that the difference would be paid later.244 Brown borrowed $900,000 from a bank but defaulted on the loan.245246

After Brown was unable to secure additional funding,247 the land was resold to Empire State Inc., a group of wealthy investors that included Louis G. Kaufman, Ellis P. Earle, John J. Raskob, Coleman du Pont, and Pierre S. du Pont.248249250 The name came from the state nickname for New York.251252 Alfred E. Smith, a former Governor of New York and U.S. presidential candidate whose 1928 campaign had been managed by Raskob,253254 was appointed head of the company.255256257 The group also purchased nearby land so they would have the 2 acres (1 ha) needed for the base, with the combined plot measuring 425 feet (130 m) wide by 200 feet (61 m) long.258259 The Empire State Inc. consortium was announced to the public in August 1929.260261262 Concurrently, Smith announced the construction of an 80-story building on the site, to be taller than any other buildings in existence.263264

Empire State Inc. contracted William F. Lamb, of architectural firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon, to create the building design.265266267 Lamb produced the initial building design using the firm's earlier designs for the Reynolds Building in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, as the basis.268 He had also been inspired by Raymond Hood's design for the Daily News Building, which was being constructed at the same time.269 Concurrently, Lamb's partner Richmond Shreve created "bug diagrams" of the project requirements.270 The 1916 Zoning Act forced Lamb to design a structure that incorporated setbacks resulting in the lower floors being larger than the upper floors.271 Consequently, the building was conceived from the top down,272 giving it a pencil-like shape.273 The plans were devised within a budget of $50 million and a stipulation that the building be ready for occupancy within 18 months of the start of construction.274 Design drawings and construction were concurrent. Steel drawings were completed in mid-January 1930, when foundations were underway.275

Design changes

The original plan of the building was 50 stories,276 but was later increased to 60 and then 80 stories.277 Height restrictions were placed on nearby buildings278 to ensure that the top fifty floors of the planned 80-story, 1,000-foot-tall (300 m) building279280 would have unobstructed views of the city.281 The New York Times lauded the site's proximity to mass transit, with the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit's 34th Street station and the Hudson and Manhattan Railroad's 33rd Street terminal one block away, as well as Penn Station two blocks away and Grand Central Terminal nine blocks away at its closest. It also praised the 3,000,000 square feet (280,000 m2) of proposed floor space near "one of the busiest sections in the world".282 The Empire State Building was to be a typical office building, but Raskob intended to build it "better and in a bigger way", according to architectural writer Donald J. Reynolds.283

While plans for the Empire State Building were being finalized, an intense competition in New York for the title of "world's tallest building" was underway. 40 Wall Street (then the Bank of Manhattan Building) and the Chrysler Building in Manhattan both vied for this distinction and were already under construction when work began on the Empire State Building.284 The "Race into the Sky", as popular media called it at the time, was representative of the country's optimism in the 1920s, fueled by the building boom in major cities.285 The race was defined by at least five other proposals, although only the Empire State Building would survive the Wall Street Crash of 1929.286287 The 40 Wall Street tower was revised, in April 1929, from 840 feet (260 m) to 925 feet (282 m) making it the world's tallest.288 The Chrysler Building added its 185-foot (56 m) steel tip to its roof in October 1929, thus bringing it to a height of 1,046 feet (319 m) and greatly exceeding the height of 40 Wall Street.289 The Chrysler Building's developer, Walter Chrysler, realized that his tower's height would exceed the Empire State Building's as well, having instructed his architect, William Van Alen, to change the Chrysler's original roof from a stubby Romanesque dome to a narrow steel spire.290 Raskob, wishing to have the Empire State Building be the world's tallest, reviewed the plans and had five floors added as well as a spire; however, the new floors would need to be set back because of projected wind pressure on the extension.291 On November 18, 1929, Smith acquired a lot at 27–31 West 33rd Street, adding 75 feet (23 m) to the width of the proposed office building's site.292293 Two days later, Smith announced the updated plans for the skyscraper. The plans included an observation deck on the 86th-floor roof at a height of 1,050 feet (320 m), higher than the Chrysler's 71st-floor observation deck.294295

The 1,050-foot Empire State Building would only be 4 feet (1.2 m) taller than the Chrysler Building,296297298 and Raskob was afraid that Chrysler might try to "pull a trick like hiding a rod in the spire and then sticking it up at the last minute."299300301 The plans were revised one last time in December 1929, to include a 16-story, 200-foot (61 m) metal "crown" and an additional 222-foot (68 m) mooring mast intended for dirigibles. The roof height was now 1,250 feet (380 m), making it the tallest building in the world by far, even without the antenna.302303304 The addition of the dirigible station meant that another floor, the 86th, would have to be built below the crown;305 however, unlike the Chrysler's spire, the Empire State's mast would serve a practical purpose.306 A revised plan was announced to the public in late December 1929, just before the start of construction.307308 The final plan was sketched within two hours, the night before the plan was supposed to be presented to the site's owners in January 1930.309 The New York Times reported that the spire was facing some "technical problems", but they were "no greater than might be expected under such a novel plan."310 By this time the blueprints for the building had gone through up to fifteen versions before they were approved.311312313 Lamb described the other specifications he was given for the final, approved plan:

The program was short enough—a fixed budget, no space more than 28 feet from window to corridor, as many stories of such space as possible, an exterior of limestone, and completion date of [May 1], 1931, which meant a year and six months from the beginning of sketches.314315

Construction

The contractors were Starrett Brothers and Eken, which were composed of Paul and William A. Starrett and Andrew J. Eken.316 The project was financed primarily by Raskob and Pierre du Pont,317 while James Farley's General Builders Supply Corporation supplied the building materials.318 John W. Bowser was the construction superintendent of the project,319 and the structural engineer of the building was Homer G. Balcom.320321 The tight completion schedule necessitated the commencement of construction even though the design had yet to be finalized.322

Hotel demolition

Demolition of the old Waldorf–Astoria began on October 1, 1929.323 Stripping the building down was an arduous process, as the hotel had been constructed using more rigid material than earlier buildings had been. Furthermore, the old hotel's granite, wood chips, and "'precious' metals such as lead, brass, and zinc" were not in high demand, resulting in issues with disposal.324 Most of the wood was deposited into a woodpile on nearby 30th Street or was burned in a swamp elsewhere. Much of the other materials that made up the old hotel, including the granite and bronze, were dumped into the Atlantic Ocean near Sandy Hook, New Jersey.325326

By the time the hotel's demolition started, Raskob had secured the required funding for the construction of the building.327 The plan was to start construction later that year but, on October 24, the New York Stock Exchange experienced the major and sudden Wall Street Crash, marking the beginning of the decade-long Great Depression. Despite the economic downturn, Raskob refused to cancel the project because of the progress that had been made up to that point.328 Neither Raskob, who had ceased speculation in the stock market the previous year, nor Smith, who had no stock investments, suffered financially in the crash.329 However, most of the investors were affected and as a result, in December 1929, Empire State Inc. obtained a $27.5 million loan from Metropolitan Life Insurance Company so construction could begin.330 The stock market crash resulted in no demand for new office space; Raskob and Smith nonetheless started construction,331 as canceling the project would have resulted in greater losses for the investors.332

Steel structure

A structural steel contract was awarded on January 12, 1930,333 with excavation of the site beginning ten days later on January 22,334 before the old hotel had been completely demolished.335 Two twelve-hour shifts, consisting of 300 men each, worked continuously to dig the 55-foot (17 m) deep foundation.336 Small pier holes were sunk into the ground to house the concrete footings that would support the steelwork.337 Excavation was nearly complete by early March,338 and construction on the building itself started on March 17,339340 with the builders placing the first steel columns on the completed footings before the rest of the footings had been finished.341 Around this time, Lamb held a press conference on the building plans. He described the reflective steel panels parallel to the windows, the large-block Indiana Limestone facade that was slightly more expensive than smaller bricks, and the building's vertical lines.342 Four colossal columns, intended for installation in the center of the building site, were delivered; they would support a combined 10,000,000 pounds (4,500,000 kg) when the building was finished.343

The structural steel was pre-ordered and pre-fabricated in anticipation of a revision to the city's building code that would have allowed the Empire State Building's structural steel to carry 18,000 pounds per square inch (120,000 kPa), up from 16,000 pounds per square inch (110,000 kPa), thus reducing the amount of steel needed for the building. Although the 18,000-psi regulation had been safely enacted in other cities, Mayor Jimmy Walker did not sign the new codes into law until March 26, 1930, just before construction was due to commence.344345 The first steel framework was installed on April 1, 1930.346 From there, construction proceeded at a rapid pace; during one stretch of 10 working days, the builders erected fourteen floors.347348 This was made possible through precise coordination of the building's planning, as well as the mass production of common materials such as windows and spandrels.349 On one occasion, when a supplier could not provide timely delivery of dark Hauteville marble, Starrett switched to using Rose Famosa marble from a German quarry that was purchased specifically to provide the project with sufficient marble.350

The scale of the project was massive, with trucks carrying "16,000 partition tiles, 5,000 bags of cement, 450 cubic yards [340 m3] of sand and 300 bags of lime" arriving at the construction site every day.351 There were also cafes and concession stands on five of the incomplete floors so workers did not have to descend to the ground level to eat lunch.352353 Temporary water taps were installed so workers did not waste time buying water bottles from the ground level.354355 Carts running on a small railway system transported materials from the basement storage356 to elevators that brought the carts to the desired floors where they would then be distributed throughout that level using another set of tracks.357358359 The 57,480 short tons (51,320 long tons) of steel ordered for the project was the largest-ever single order of steel at the time, comprising more steel than was ordered for the Chrysler Building and 40 Wall Street combined.360361 According to historian John Tauranac, building materials were sourced from numerous, and distant, sources with "limestone from Indiana, steel girders from Pittsburgh, cement and mortar from upper New York State, marble from Italy, France, and England, wood from northern and Pacific Coast forests, [and] hardware from New England."362 The facade, too, used a variety of material—most prominently Indiana limestone but also architectural terracotta, brick,363 and black granite from Sweden.364

By June 20, the skyscraper's supporting steel structure had risen to the 26th floor, and by July 27, half of the steel structure had been completed.365 Starrett Bros. and Eken endeavored to build one floor a day in order to speed up construction, achieving a pace of four and a half stories per week;366367 prior to this, the fastest pace of construction for a building of similar height had been three and a half stories per week.368 While construction progressed, the final designs for the floors were being designed from the ground up (as opposed to the general design, which had been from the roof down). Some of the levels were still undergoing final approval, with several orders placed within an hour of a plan being finalized.369 On September 10, as steelwork was nearing completion, Smith laid the building's cornerstone during a ceremony attended by thousands. The stone contained a box with contemporary artifacts including the previous day's New York Times, a U.S. currency set containing all denominations of notes and coins minted in 1930, a history of the site and building, and photographs of the people involved in construction.370371 The steel structure was topped out at 1,048 feet (319 m) on September 19, twelve days ahead of schedule and 23 weeks after the start of construction.372 Workers raised a flag atop the 86th floor to signify this milestone.373374

Completion and scale

Work on the building's interior and crowning mast commenced after the topping out.375 The mooring mast topped out on November 21, two months after the steelwork had been completed.376377 Meanwhile, work on the walls and interior was progressing at a quick pace, with exterior walls built up to the 75th floor by the time steelwork had been built to the 95th floor.378 The majority of the facade was already finished by the middle of November.379 Because of the building's height, it was deemed infeasible to have many elevators or large elevator cabins, so the builders contracted with the Otis Elevator Company to make 66 cars that could speed at 1,200 feet per minute (366 m/min), which represented the largest-ever elevator order at the time.380

In addition to the time constraint builders had, there were also space limitations because construction materials had to be delivered quickly, and trucks needed to drop off these materials without congesting traffic. This was solved by creating a temporary driveway for the trucks between 33rd and 34th Streets, and then storing the materials in the building's first floor and basements. Concrete mixers, brick hoppers, and stone hoists inside the building ensured that materials would be able to ascend quickly and without endangering or inconveniencing the public.381 At one point, over 200 trucks made material deliveries at the building site every day.382 A series of relay and erection derricks, placed on platforms erected near the building, lifted the steel from the trucks below and installed the beams at the appropriate locations.383 The Empire State Building was structurally completed on April 11, 1931, twelve days ahead of schedule and 410 days after construction commenced.384 Al Smith shot the final rivet, which was made of solid gold.385

The project involved more than 3,500 workers at its peak,386 including 3,439 on a single day, August 14, 1930.387 Many of the workers were Irish and Italian immigrants,388 with a sizable minority of Mohawk ironworkers from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal.389390391 According to official accounts, five workers died during the construction,392393 although the New York Daily News gave reports of 14 deaths394 and a headline in the socialist magazine The New Masses spread unfounded rumors of up to 42 deaths.395396 The Empire State Building cost $40,948,900 to build (equivalent to $661 million in 2023),397 including demolition of the Waldorf–Astoria. This was lower than the $60 million budgeted for construction.398

Lewis Hine captured many photographs of the construction, documenting not only the work itself but also providing insight into the daily life of workers in that era.399400401 Hine's images were used extensively by the media to publish daily press releases.402 According to the writer Jim Rasenberger, Hine "climbed out onto the steel with the ironworkers and dangled from a derrick cable hundreds of feet above the city to capture, as no one ever had before (or has since), the dizzy work of building skyscrapers". In Rasenberger's words, Hine turned what might have been an assignment of "corporate flak" into "exhilarating art".403 These images were later organized into their own collection.404 Onlookers were enraptured by the sheer height at which the steelworkers operated. New York magazine wrote of the steelworkers: "Like little spiders they toiled, spinning a fabric of steel against the sky".405

Opening and early years

The Empire State Building officially opened on May 1, 1931, forty-five days ahead of its projected opening date, and eighteen months from the start of construction.406407408 The opening was marked with an event featuring United States President Herbert Hoover, who turned on the building's lights with the ceremonial button push from Washington, D.C.409410411 Over 350 guests attended the opening ceremony, and following luncheon, at the 86th floor including Jimmy Walker, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Al Smith.412 An account from that day stated that the view from the luncheon was obscured by a fog, with other landmarks such as the Statue of Liberty being "lost in the mist" enveloping New York City.413 The Empire State Building officially opened the next day.414415 Advertisements for the building's observatories were placed in local newspapers, while nearby hotels also capitalized on the events by releasing advertisements that lauded their proximity to the newly opened building.416

According to The New York Times, builders and real estate speculators predicted that the 1,250-foot-tall (380 m) Empire State Building would be the world's tallest building "for many years", thus ending the great New York City skyscraper rivalry. At the time, most engineers agreed that it would be difficult to build a building taller than 1,200 feet (370 m), even with the hardy Manhattan bedrock as a foundation.417 Technically, it was believed possible to build a tower of up to 2,000 feet (610 m), but it was deemed uneconomical to do so, especially during the Great Depression.418419 As the tallest building in the world, at that time, and the first one to exceed 100 floors, the Empire State Building became an icon of the city and, ultimately, of the nation.420

In 1932, the Fifth Avenue Association gave the building its 1931 "gold medal" for architectural excellence, signifying that the Empire State had been the best-designed building on Fifth Avenue to open in 1931.421 A year later, on March 2, 1933, the movie King Kong was released. The movie, which depicted a large stop motion ape named Kong climbing the Empire State Building, made the still-new building into a cinematic icon.422423

Tenants and tourism

At the beginning of 1931, Fifth Avenue was experiencing high demand for storefront space, with only 12 of 224 stores being unoccupied. The Empire State Building, along with 500 Fifth Avenue and 608 Fifth Avenue, were expected to add a combined 11 stores.424425 The office space was less successful, as the Empire State Building's opening had coincided with the Great Depression in the United States.426 In the first year, only 23 percent of the available space was rented,427428 as compared to the early 1920s, where the average building would be 52 percent occupied upon opening and 90 percent occupied within five years.429 The lack of renters led New Yorkers to deride the building as the "Empty State Building"430431 or "Smith's Folly".432

The earliest tenants in the Empire State Building were large companies, banks, and garment industries.433 Jack Brod, one of the building's longest resident tenants,434435 co-established the Empire Diamond Corporation with his father in the building in mid-1931436 and rented space in the building until he died in 2008.437 Brod recalled that there were only about 20 tenants at the time of opening, including him,438 and that Al Smith was the only real tenant in the space above his seventh-floor offices.439 Generally, during the early 1930s, it was rare for more than a single office space to be rented in the building, despite Smith's and Raskob's aggressive marketing efforts in the newspapers and to anyone they knew.440 The building's lights were continuously left on, even in the unrented spaces, to give the impression of occupancy. This was exacerbated by competition from Rockefeller Center441 as well as from buildings on 42nd Street, which, when combined with the Empire State Building, resulted in surplus of office space in a slow market during the 1930s.442

Aggressive marketing efforts served to reinforce the Empire State Building's status as the world's tallest.443 The observatory was advertised in local newspapers as well as on railroad tickets.444 The building became a popular tourist attraction, with one million people each paying one dollar to ride elevators to the observation decks in 1931.445 In its first year of operation, the observation deck made approximately $2 million in revenue, as much as its owners made in rent that year.446447 By 1936, the observation deck was crowded on a daily basis, with food and drink available for purchase at the top,448 and by 1944 the building had received its five-millionth visitor.449 In 1931, NBC took up tenancy, leasing space on the 85th floor for radio broadcasts.450451 From the outset the building was in debt, losing $1 million per year by 1935. Real estate developer Seymour Durst recalled that the building was so underused in 1936 that there was no elevator service above the 45th floor, as the building above the 41st floor was empty except for the NBC offices and the Raskob/Du Pont offices on the 81st floor.452

Other events

Per the original plans, the Empire State Building's spire was intended to be an airship docking station. Raskob and Smith had proposed dirigible ticketing offices and passenger waiting rooms on the 86th floor, while the airships themselves would be tied to the spire at the equivalent of the building's 106th floor.453454 An elevator would ferry passengers from the 86th to the 101st floor455 after they had checked in on the 86th floor,456 after which passengers would have climbed steep ladders to board the airship.457 The idea was impractical and dangerous due to powerful updrafts caused by the building itself,458 the wind currents across Manhattan,459 and the spires of nearby skyscrapers.460 Even if the airship could successfully navigate all these obstacles, its crew would have to jettison some ballast by releasing water onto the streets below in order to maintain stability, and then tie the craft's nose to the spire with no mooring lines securing the tail end of the craft.461462463 On September 15, 1931, a small commercial United States Navy airship circled 25 times in 45-mile-per-hour (72 km/h) winds.464 The airship then attempted to dock at the mast, but its ballast spilled and the craft was rocked by unpredictable eddies.465466 The near-disaster scuttled plans to turn the building's spire into an airship terminal, although one blimp did manage to make a single newspaper delivery afterward.467468

On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building, between the 79th and 80th floors.469 One engine completely penetrated the building and landed in a neighboring block, while the other engine and part of the landing gear plummeted down an elevator shaft. Fourteen people were killed in the incident,470471 but the building escaped severe damage and was reopened two days later.472473

Profitability

By the 1940s, the Empire State Building was 98 percent occupied.474 The structure broke even for the first time in the 1950s.475476 At the time, mass transit options in the building's vicinity were limited compared to the present day. Despite this challenge, the Empire State Building began to attract renters due to its reputation.477 A 222-foot (68 m) radio antenna was erected on top of the towers starting in 1950,478 allowing the area's television stations to be broadcast from the building.479

Despite the turnaround in the building's fortunes, Raskob listed it for sale in 1951,480 with a minimum asking price of $50 million.481 The property was purchased by business partners Roger L. Stevens, Henry Crown, Alfred R. Glancy and Ben Tobin.482483484 The sale was brokered by the Charles F. Noyes Company, a prominent real estate firm in upper Manhattan,485 for $51 million, the highest price paid for a single structure at the time.486 By this time, the Empire State had been fully leased for several years with a waiting list of parties looking to lease space in the building, according to the Cortland Standard.487 That same year, six news companies formed a partnership to pay a combined annual fee of $600,000 to use the building's antenna,488 which was completed in 1953.489 Crown bought out his partners' ownership stakes in 1954, becoming the sole owner.490 The following year, the American Society of Civil Engineers named the building one of the "Seven Modern Civil Engineering Wonders".491492

In 1961, Lawrence A. Wien signed a contract to purchase the Empire State Building for $65 million, with Harry B. Helmsley acting as partners in the building's operating lease.493494 This became the new highest price for a single structure.495 Over 3,000 people paid $10,000 for one share each in a company called Empire State Building Associates. The company in turn subleased the building to another company headed by Helmsley and Wien, raising $33 million of the funds needed to pay the purchase price.496497 In a separate transaction,498 the land underneath the building was sold to Prudential Insurance for $29 million.499500 Helmsley, Wien, and Peter Malkin quickly started a program of minor improvement projects, including the first-ever full-building facade refurbishment and window-washing in 1962,501502 the installation of new flood lights on the 72nd floor in 1964,503504 and replacement of the manually operated elevators with automatic units in 1966.505 The little-used western end of the second floor was used as a storage space until 1964, at which point it received escalators to the first floor as part of its conversion into a highly sought retail area.506507

Loss of "tallest building" title

In 1961, the same year that Helmsley, Wien, and Malkin had purchased the Empire State Building, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey formally backed plans for a new World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan.508 The plan originally included 66-story twin towers with column-free open spaces. The Empire State's owners and real estate speculators were worried that the twin towers' 7.6 million square feet (710,000 m2) of office space would create a glut of rentable space in Manhattan as well as take away the Empire State Building's profits from lessees.509 A revision in the World Trade Center's plan brought the twin towers to 1,370 feet (420 m) each or 110 stories, taller than the Empire State.510 Opponents of the new project included prominent real-estate developer Robert Tishman, as well as Wien's Committee for a Reasonable World Trade Center.511 In response to Wien's opposition, Port Authority executive director Austin J. Tobin said that Wien was only opposing the project because it would overshadow his Empire State Building as the world's tallest building.512

The World Trade Center's twin towers started construction in 1966.513 The following year, the Ostankino Tower succeeded the Empire State Building as the tallest freestanding structure in the world.514 In 1970, the Empire State surrendered its position as the world's tallest building,515 when the World Trade Center's still-under-construction North Tower surpassed it, on October 19;516517 the North Tower was topped out on December 23, 1970.518519

In December 1975, the observation deck was opened on the 110th floor of the Twin Towers, significantly higher than the 86th floor observatory on the Empire State Building.520 The latter was also losing revenue during this period, particularly as a number of broadcast stations had moved to the World Trade Center in 1971; although the Port Authority continued to pay the broadcasting leases for the Empire State until 1984.521 The Empire State Building was still seen as prestigious, having seen its forty-millionth visitor in March 1971.522

1980s and 1990s

By 1980, there were nearly two million annual visitors,523 although a building official had previously estimated between 1.5 million and 1.75 million annual visitors.524 The building received its own ZIP code in May 1980 in a roll out of 63 new postal codes in Manhattan. At the time, its tenants collectively received 35,000 pieces of mail daily.525 The Empire State Building celebrated its 50th anniversary on May 1, 1981, with a much-publicized, but poorly received, laser light show,526 as well as an "Empire State Building Week" that ran through to May 8.527528 The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted to designate the building and its lobby as city landmarks on May 19, 1981,529530

Capital improvements were made to the Empire State Building during the early to mid-1990s at a cost of $55 million.531 Because all of the building's windows were being replaced at the same time, the LPC mandated a paint-color test for the windows; the test revealed that the Empire State Building's original windows were actually red.532 The improvements also entailed replacing alarm systems, elevators, windows, and air conditioning; making the observation deck compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA); and refurbishing the limestone facade.533 The observation deck renovation was added after disability rights groups and the United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the building in 1992, in what was the first lawsuit filed by an organization under the new law.534535 A settlement was reached in 1994, in which Empire State Building Associates agreed to add ADA-compliant elements, such as new elevators, ramps, and automatic doors, during the renovation.536537

Prudential sold the land under the building in 1991 for $42 million to a buyer representing hotelier Hideki Yokoi [ja], who was imprisoned at the time in connection with the deadly Hotel New Japan Fire [ja] at the Hotel New Japan [ja] in Tokyo.538 In 1994, Donald Trump entered into a joint-venture agreement with Yokoi, with a shared goal of breaking the Empire State Building's lease on the land in an effort to gain total ownership of the building so that, if successful, the two could reap the potential profits of merging the ownership of the building with the land beneath it.539 Having secured a half-ownership of the land, Trump devised plans to take ownership of the building itself so he could renovate it, even though Helmsley and Malkin had already started their refurbishment project.540 He sued Empire State Building Associates in February 1995, claiming that the latter had caused the building to become a "high-rise slum"541 and a "second-rate, rodent-infested" office tower.542 Trump had intended to have Empire State Building Associates evicted for violating the terms of their lease,543 but was denied.544 This led to Helmsley's companies countersuing Trump in May.545 This sparked a series of lawsuits and countersuits that lasted several years,546 partly arising from Trump's desire to obtain the building's master lease by taking it from Empire State Building Associates.547 Upon Harry Helmsley's death in 1997, the Malkins sued Helmsley's widow, Leona Helmsley, for control of the building.548

21st century

2000s

Following the destruction of the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks, the Empire State Building again became the tallest building in New York City, but was only the second-tallest building in the Americas after the Sears (later Willis) Tower in Chicago.549550551 As a result of the attacks, transmissions from nearly all of the city's commercial television and FM radio stations were again broadcast from the Empire State Building.552 The attacks also led to an increase in security due to persistent terror threats against prominent sites in New York City.553

In 2002, Trump and Yokoi sold their land claim to the Empire State Building Associates, now headed by Malkin, in a $57.5 million transaction.554555 This action merged the building's title and lease for the first time in half a century.556 Despite the lingering threat posed by the 9/11 attacks, the Empire State Building remained popular with 3.5 million visitors to the observatories in 2004, compared to about 2.8 million in 2003.557

Even though she maintained her ownership stake in the building until the post-consolidation IPO in October 2013, Leona Helmsley handed over day-to-day operations of the building in 2006 to Peter Malkin's company.558559 In 2008, the building was temporarily "stolen" by the New York Daily News to show how easy it was to transfer the deed on a property, since city clerks were not required to validate the submitted information, as well as to help demonstrate how fraudulent deeds could be used to obtain large mortgages and then have individuals disappear with the money. The paperwork submitted to the city included the names of Fay Wray, the famous star of King Kong, and Willie Sutton, a notorious New York bank robber. The newspaper then transferred the deed back over to the legitimate owners, who at that time were Empire State Land Associates.560

2010s to present

Starting in 2009, the building's public areas received a $550 million renovation, with improvements to the air conditioning and waterproofing, renovations to the observation deck and main lobby,561 and relocation of the gift shop to the 80th floor.562563 About $120 million was spent on improving the energy efficiency of the building, with the goal of reducing energy emissions by 38% within five years.564565 For example, all of the windows were refurbished onsite into film-coated "superwindows" which block heat but pass light.566567568 Air conditioning operating costs on hot days were reduced, saving $17 million of the project's capital cost immediately and partially funding some of the other retrofits.569 The Empire State Building won the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold for Existing Buildings rating in September 2011, as well as the World Federation of Great Towers' Excellence in Environment Award for 2010.570 For the LEED Gold certification, the building's energy reduction was considered, as was a large purchase of carbon offsets. Other factors included low-flow bathroom fixtures, green cleaning supplies, and use of recycled paper products.571

On April 30, 2012, One World Trade Center topped out, surpassing the Empire State Building as the city's tallest skyscraper.572 By 2014, the building was owned by the Empire State Realty Trust (ESRT), with Anthony Malkin as chairman, CEO, and president.573 The ESRT was a public company, having begun trading publicly on the New York Stock Exchange the previous year.574 In August 2016, the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) was issued new fully diluted shares equivalent to 9.9% of the trust; this investment gave them partial ownership of the entirety of the ESRT's portfolio, and as a result, partial ownership of the Empire State Building.575 The trust's president John Kessler called it an "endorsement of the company's irreplaceable assets".576 The investment has been described by the real-estate magazine The Real Deal as "an unusual move for a sovereign wealth fund", as these funds typically buy direct stakes in buildings rather than real estate companies.577 Other foreign entities that have a stake in the ESRT include investors from Norway, Japan, and Australia.578

A renovation of the Empire State Building was commenced in the 2010s to further improve energy efficiency, public areas, and amenities.579 In August 2018, to improve the flow of visitor traffic, the main visitor's entrance was shifted to 20 West 34th Street as part of a major renovation of the observatory lobby.580 The new lobby includes several technological features, including large LED panels, digital ticket kiosks in nine languages, and a two-story architectural model of the building surrounded by two metal staircases.581582 The first phase of the renovation, completed in 2019, features an updated exterior lighting system and digital hosts.583 The new lobby also features free Wi-Fi provided for those waiting.584585 A 10,000-square-foot (930 m2) exhibit with nine galleries opened in July 2019.586587 The 102nd floor observatory, the third phase of the redesign, reopened to the public on October 12, 2019.588589590 That portion of the project included outfitting the space with floor-to-ceiling glass windows and a brand-new glass elevator.591 The final portion of the renovations to be completed was a new observatory on the 80th floor, which opened on December 2, 2019.592593 In total, the renovation cost $160 million594 or $165 million and took four years to finish.595596

A comprehensive restoration of the building's mooring and antenna masts also began in June 2019. Antennas on the mooring mast were removed or relocated to the upper mast, while the aluminum panels were cleaned and coated with silver paint.597598599 To minimize disruption to the observation decks, the restoration work took place at night. The project was completed by late 2020.600

Height records

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 October 1970.601602603 The Empire State Building was also the tallest human-made structure in the world before it was surpassed by the Griffin Television Tower Oklahoma (KWTV Mast) in 1954,604 and the tallest freestanding structure in the world until the completion of the Ostankino Tower in 1967.605 An early-1970s proposal to dismantle the spire and replace it with an additional 11 floors, which would have brought the building's height to 1,494 feet (455 m) and made it once again the world's tallest at the time, was considered but ultimately rejected.606

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. The Empire State Building remained the tallest building in New York until the new One World Trade Center reached a greater height in April 2012.607608609 As of 2022[update], it is the seventh-tallest building in New York City and the tenth-tallest in the United States.610 The Empire State Building is the 49th-tallest in the world as of February 2021[update].611 It is also the eleventh-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas behind the tallest U.S. buildings and the CN Tower.612

Notable tenants

As of 2013[update], the building housed around 1,000 businesses.613 Current tenants include:

Former tenants include:

Incidents

1945 plane crash

Main article: B-25 Empire State Building crash

At 9:40 am on July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber, piloted in thick fog by Lieutenant Colonel William Franklin Smith Jr.,652 crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building between the 79th and 80th floors (then the offices of the National Catholic Welfare Council).653654 One engine completely penetrated the building, landing on the roof of a nearby building where it started a fire that destroyed a penthouse.655656657 The other engine and part of the landing gear plummeted down an elevator shaft, causing a fire that was extinguished in 40 minutes. Fourteen people were killed in the incident.658659660 Elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver fell 75 stories and survived, which still holds the Guinness World Record for the longest survived elevator fall recorded.661

Despite the damage and loss of life, many floors were open two days later.662663 The crash helped spur the passage of the long-pending Federal Tort Claims Act of 1946, as well as the insertion of retroactive provisions into the law, allowing people to sue the government for the incident.664 Also as a result of the crash, the Civil Aeronautics Administration enacted strict regulations regarding flying over New York City, setting a minimum flying altitude of 2,500 feet (760 m) above sea level regardless of the weather conditions.665666

A year later, on July 24, 1946, another airplane narrowly missed striking the building. The unidentified twin-engine plane scraped past the observation deck, frightening the tourists there.667

2000 elevator plunge

On January 24, 2000, an elevator in the building suddenly descended 40 stories after a cable that controlled the cabin's maximum speed was severed.668 The elevator fell from the 44th floor to the fourth floor, where a narrowed elevator shaft provided a second safety system. Despite the 40-floor fall, both of the passengers in the cabin at the time were only slightly injured. After the fall, building inspectors reviewed all of the building's elevators.669

Suicide attempts

Because of the building's iconic status, it and other Midtown landmarks are common locations for suicide attempts.670 More than 30 people have attempted suicide over the years by jumping from the upper parts of the building, with most attempts being successful.671672

The first suicide from the building occurred on April 7, 1931, before it was even completed, when a carpenter who had been laid-off went to the 58th floor and jumped.673 The first suicide after the building's opening occurred from the 86th floor observatory in February 1935, when Irma P. Eberhardt fell 1,029 feet (314 m) onto a marquee sign.674 On December 16, 1943, William Lloyd Rambo jumped to his death from the 86th floor, landing amidst Christmas shoppers on the street below.675 In the early morning of September 27, 1946, shell-shocked Marine Douglas W. Brashear Jr. jumped from the 76th-floor window of the Grant Advertising Agency; police found his shoes 50 feet (15 m) from his body.676

On May 1, 1947, Evelyn McHale leapt to her death from the 86th floor observation deck and landed on a 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 that she left on the observation deck: "He is much better off without me.... I wouldn't make a good wife for anybody". The photo ran in the May 12, 1947, edition of Life magazine677 and is often referred to as "The Most Beautiful Suicide". It was later used by visual artist Andy Warhol in one of his prints entitled Suicide (Fallen Body).678 A 7-foot (2.1 m) mesh fence was put up around the 86th floor terrace in December 1947 after five people tried to jump during a three-week span in October and November of that year.679680 By then, sixteen people had died from suicide jumps.681

Only one person has jumped from the upper observatory. Frederick Eckert of Astoria ran past a guard in the enclosed 102nd-floor gallery on November 3, 1932, and jumped a gate leading to an outdoor catwalk intended for dirigible passengers. He landed and died on the roof of the 86th floor observation promenade.682

Two people have survived falls by not falling more than a floor. On December 2, 1979, Elvita Adams jumped from the 86th floor, only to be blown back onto a ledge on the 85th floor by a gust of wind and left with a broken hip.683684685 On April 25, 2013, a man fell from the 86th floor observation deck, but he landed alive with minor injuries on an 85th-floor ledge where security guards brought him inside and paramedics transferred him to a hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.686

Shootings

Two fatal shootings have occurred in the direct vicinity of the Empire State Building. Abu Kamal, a 69-year-old Palestinian teacher, shot seven people on the 86th floor observation deck during the afternoon of February 23, 1997. He killed one person and wounded six others before committing suicide.687 Kamal reportedly committed the shooting in response to events happening in Palestine and Israel.688

On the morning of August 24, 2012, 58-year-old Jeffrey T. Johnson shot and killed a former co-worker on the building's Fifth Avenue sidewalk. He had been laid off from his job in 2011. Two police officers confronted the gunman, and he aimed his firearm at them. They responded by firing 16 shots, killing him but also wounding nine bystanders. Most of the injured were hit by bullet fragments, although three took direct hits from bullets.689690

Impact

As the tallest building in the world and the first one to exceed 100 floors, the Empire State Building immediately became an icon of the city and of the nation.691692693 In 2013, Time magazine noted that the Empire State Building "seems to completely embody the city it has become synonymous with".694 The historian John Tauranac called it "'the' twentieth-century New York building", despite the existence of taller and more modernist buildings.695

The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to designate the building and its lobby as city landmarks on May 19, 1981,696697 citing the historic nature of the first and second floors, as well as "the fixtures and interior components" of the upper floors.698 The New York City Planning Commission endorsed the landmark status.699 The building became a National Historic Landmark in 1986700701702 in close alignment with the New York City Landmarks report.703 The Empire State Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places the following year due to its architectural significance.704

Contemporary reception

Early architectural critics also focused on the Empire State Building's exterior ornamentation.705 Architectural critic Talbot Hamlin wrote in 1931, "That it is the world's tallest building is purely incidental."706 George Shepard Chappell, writing in The New Yorker under the pseudonym "T-Square", wrote the same year that the Empire State Building had a "palpably enormous" appeal to the general public, and that "its difference and distinction [lay] in the extreme sensitiveness of its entire design".707708 Edmund Wilson of The New Republic wrote that the building's neutral color palette made it "New York's handsomest skyscraper".709

Architectural critics also wrote negatively of the mast, especially in light of its failure to become a real air terminal. Chappell called the mast "a silly gesture", and Lewis Mumford called it "a public comfort station for migratory birds".710 Nevertheless, architecture critic Douglas Haskell said the Empire State Building's appeal came from the fact that it was "caught at the exact moment of transition—caught between metal and stone, between the idea of 'monumental mass' and that of airy volume, between handicraft and machine design, and in the swing from what was essentially handicraft to what will be essentially industrial methods of fabrication."711

As icon

Early in the building's history, travel companies such as Short Line Motor Coach Service and New York Central Railroad used the building as an icon to symbolize the city.712 In a 1932 survey of 50 American architects, fourteen ranked the Empire State Building as the United States' best building; the Empire State Building received more votes than any building except the Lincoln Memorial.713714 After the construction of the first World Trade Center, architect Paul Goldberger noted that the Empire State Building "is famous for being tall, but it is good enough to be famous for being good."715

As an icon of the United States, it is also very popular among Americans. In a 2007 survey, the American Institute of Architects found that the Empire State Building was "America's favorite building".716 The building was originally a symbol of hope in a country devastated by the Depression, as well as a work of accomplishment by newer immigrants.717 The writer Benjamin Flowers states that the Empire State was "a building intended to celebrate a new America, built by men (both clients and construction workers) who were themselves new Americans."718 The architectural critic Jonathan Glancey refers to the building as an "icon of American design".719 Additionally, in 2007, the Empire State Building was first on the AIA's List of America's Favorite Architecture.720

The Empire State Building has been hailed as an example of a "wonder of the world" due to the massive effort expended during construction.721 The Washington Star listed it as part of one of the "seven wonders of the modern world" in 1931, while Holiday magazine wrote in 1958 that the Empire State's height would be taller than the combined heights of the Eiffel Tower and the Great Pyramid of Giza.722 The American Society of Civil Engineers also declared the building "A Modern Civil Engineering Wonder of the United States" in 1958723 and one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World in 1994.724 Ron Miller, in a 2010 book, also described the Empire State Building as one of the "seven wonders of engineering".725 It has often been called the Eighth Wonder of the World as well, an appellation that it has held since shortly after opening.726727728 The panels installed in the lobby in 1963 reflected this, showing the seven original wonders alongside the Empire State Building.729 The Empire State Building also became the standard of reference to describe the height and length of other structures globally, both natural and human-made.730

The building has also inspired replicas. The New York-New York Hotel and Casino in Paradise, Nevada, contains the "Empire Tower",731 a 47-story replica of the Empire State Building.732733 A portion of the hotel's interior was also designed to resemble the Empire State Building's interior.734

In media

Main article: Empire State Building in popular culture

As an icon of New York City, the Empire State Building has been featured in various films, books, TV shows, and video games. According to the building's official website, more than 250 movies contain depictions of the Empire State Building.735 In his book about the building, John Tauranac writes that its first documented appearance in popular culture was Swiss Family Manhattan, a 1932 children's story by Christopher Morley.736 A year later, the film King Kong depicted Kong, a giant stop motion ape that climbs the Empire State Building during the film's climax,737738739 bringing the building into the popular imagination.740741 Later movies such as An Affair to Remember (1957), Sleepless in Seattle (1993), and Independence Day (1996) also prominently featured the building.742743 The building has also been featured in other works, such as "Daleks in Manhattan", a 2007 episode of the TV series Doctor Who;744 and Empire, an eight-hour black-and-white silent film by Andy Warhol,745 which was later added to the Library of Congress's National Film Registry.746

Throughout its history, the Empire State Building has welcomed celebrities, royalty, and dignitaries to visit the observation deck. From celebrities like Taylor Swift and Zendaya to royalty such as Prince William, the Empire State Building hosts notable figures every year.747

Empire State Building Run-Up

The Empire State Building Run-Up, a foot race from ground level to the 86th-floor observation deck, has been held annually since 1978.748 It is organized by NYCRUNS.749 Its participants are referred to both as runners and as climbers, and are often tower running enthusiasts. The race covers a vertical distance of 1,050 ft (320 m) and takes in 1,576 steps. The record time is 9 minutes and 33 seconds, achieved by Australian professional cyclist Paul Crake in 2003, at a climbing rate of 6,593 ft (2,010 m) per hour.750751

See also

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Notes

Citations

Sources

Further reading

References

  1. Most sources state that there are 102 floors,[5][6][7] but some give a figure of 103 floors due to the presence of a balcony above the 102nd floor.[15][16] See § Opening and early years and § Above the 102nd floor for a detailed explanation. ↩

  2. Jackson 2010, p. 414. - Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (2010). The Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11465-2. ↩

  3. "Empire State Building Unveils New Entrance, Lobby". am New York. August 22, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2018. https://www.amny.com/real-estate/empire-state-building-rehabilitation-1.20623161 ↩

  4. Tarquinio, J. Alex (September 9, 2009). "South of Midtown Manhattan, Bargain Commercial Rents". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/09/realestate/commercial/09south.html ↩

  5. Kravitz, Derek (October 23, 2015). "Midtown South: Living Where the Action Is". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on December 8, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017. https://www.wsj.com/articles/midtown-south-living-where-the-action-is-1445594401 ↩

  6. Verrill, Courtney (May 1, 2016). "14 Weird Facts That You Probably Didn't Know About the Empire State Building". Business Insider. Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017. http://www.businessinsider.com/weird-facts-about-the-empire-state-building-2016-4 ↩

  7. "The Plane Crash of '45, More Empire State Building Secrets". Newsday. April 25, 2016. Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved October 22, 2017. https://www.amny.com/secrets-of-new-york/secrets-of-the-empire-state-building-as-it-celebrates-85-years-1.11717454 ↩

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  9. The Empire State Building is located within the 10001 zip code area,[23] but 10118 has been assigned as the building's own zip code by the United States Postal Service[20][21] since 1980.[24] ↩

  10. "MTA Neighborhood Maps: neighborhood". Metropolitan Transportation Authority. 2018. Retrieved October 1, 2018. http://web.mta.info/maps/neighborhood_maps.htm ↩

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  14. Jackson 2010, p. 866. - Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (2010). The Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11465-2. ↩

  15. White, Norval; Willensky, Elliot; Leadon, Fran (2010). AIA Guide to New York City (5th ed.). New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 266–267. ISBN 978-0-19538-386-7. 978-0-19538-386-7 ↩

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  18. Willis & Friedman 1998, p. 14. - Willis, Carol; Friedman, Donald (1998). Building the Empire State. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-73030-2. ↩

  19. Willis & Friedman 1998, p. 56. - Willis, Carol; Friedman, Donald (1998). Building the Empire State. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-73030-2. ↩

  20. Reynolds 1994, p. 290."Helmsley Caves In – Empire State Bldg. War Ends". New York Post. August 30, 2006. Archived from the original on September 22, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017. - Reynolds, Donald (1994). The Architecture of New York City: Histories and Views of Important Structures, Sites, and Symbols. J. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-01439-3. OCLC 45730295. https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/45730295 ↩

  21. Willis & Friedman 1998, p. 14. - Willis, Carol; Friedman, Donald (1998). Building the Empire State. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-73030-2. ↩

  22. Landmarks Preservation Commission 1981, p. 14. - Robins, Anthony W. (May 19, 1981). "Empire State Building" (PDF). New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 24, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2020. http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/2000.pdf ↩

  23. Willis & Friedman 1998, p. 14. - Willis, Carol; Friedman, Donald (1998). Building the Empire State. W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-73030-2. ↩

  24. Jackson 2010, pp. 413–414. - Jackson, Kenneth T., ed. (2010). The Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11465-2. ↩

  25. Reynolds 1994, p. 290."Helmsley Caves In – Empire State Bldg. War Ends". New York Post. August 30, 2006. Archived from the original on September 22, 2017. Retrieved September 21, 2017. - Reynolds, Donald (1994). The Architecture of New York City: Histories and Views of Important Structures, Sites, and Symbols. J. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-01439-3. OCLC 45730295. https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/45730295 ↩

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  30. Tauranac 2014, p. 157. - Tauranac, John (2014). The Empire State Building: The Making of a Landmark. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-19678-7. https://archive.org/details/empirestatebuild0000taur ↩

  31. Kayden & Municipal Art Society 2000, pp. 8–9. - Kayden, Jerold S.; The Municipal Art Society of New York (2000). Privately Owned Public Space: The New York City Experience. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-36257-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=OpeNSAfYASoC&pg=PA9 ↩

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  34. Per the 1916 Zoning Act, the wall of any given tower that faces a street could only rise to a certain height, proportionate to the street's width, at which point the building had to be set back by a given proportion. This system of setbacks would continue until the tower reaches a floor level in which that level's floor area was 25% that of the ground level's area. After that 25% threshold was reached, the building could rise without restriction.[42][43][44] The 1916 Zoning Act was amended in 1961 so that buildings erected thereafter could not exceed a floor area ratio that was calculated for each zoning district.[45] The maximum ratio for the Empire State Building's district is 15, unless it includes a public plaza.[46] A grandfather clause permits preexisting structures to continue under the old rule. Therefore, the Empire State Building's floor area ratio of 25 cannot be duplicated, or even approached, by a new building in that district.[47] ↩

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  271. Per the 1916 Zoning Act, the wall of any given tower that faces a street could only rise to a certain height, proportionate to the street's width, at which point the building had to be set back by a given proportion. This system of setbacks would continue until the tower reaches a floor level in which that level's floor area was 25% that of the ground level's area. After that 25% threshold was reached, the building could rise without restriction.[42][43][44] The 1916 Zoning Act was amended in 1961 so that buildings erected thereafter could not exceed a floor area ratio that was calculated for each zoning district.[45] The maximum ratio for the Empire State Building's district is 15, unless it includes a public plaza.[46] A grandfather clause permits preexisting structures to continue under the old rule. Therefore, the Empire State Building's floor area ratio of 25 cannot be duplicated, or even approached, by a new building in that district.[47] ↩

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