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 * <span style="color: #da07da; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">The Architects of the Empire State Building were //Shreve//, //Lamb//, & //Harmon//.
 * <span style="color: #17d9ce; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">The Empire State Building was the biggest building in 1929-1931.
 * <span style="color: #da07da; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">Coordinates of the Empire State Building are ---> 40*44'54.3 6" N 73*59'08.36 W"
 * <span style="color: #17d9ce; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">The Empire State Building was designed by William F. Lamb.
 * <span style="color: #da07da; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">There Are 67 elevators, and 6,500 glass windows in the Empire State Building!!!
 * It is 102 stories high (the Lobby is on the third)!
 * <span style="color: #da07da; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">It is 1,250 feet high!!
 * <span style="color: #17d9ce; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">The Location of the Empire State Buildings on ---> 350 Fifth Ave. New York, New York 101 18.
 * <span style="color: #da07da; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">There has been 7,000,000 Man Hours (1 year and 45 days to build!).
 * The weight of the Empire State Building is 365,000 tons! <span style="color: #da07da; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">WOW!!!!
 * <span style="color: #da07da; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">There is a race to the top of the Building! It's an annual tradition in 1978, and you would have to race up 1,576 floors to the 86th floor (the record time was 9 minutes 33 seconds in 2003!).
 * <span style="color: #17d9ce; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">There is 57,000 tons of steel in the Building!
 * <span style="color: #da07da; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">The Empire State Building was the tallest skyscraper in 1931. It was at 1,454 feet tall. In 2005, it was the 9th tallest building!
 * <span style="color: #17d9ce; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">In the Empire State Building there is use of Office and Observation.
 * <span style="color: #da07da; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">Volume: 37 million cubic feet.
 * <span style="color: #17d9ce; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">Contractors were The Starrett Brothers and Eken.
 * <span style="color: #da07da; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 170%;">The cost of this skyscraper was $40,948,900!
 * <span style="color: #17d9ce; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">It was built in 1929-1931.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;"> ﻿ <span style="color: #da07da; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1945 a twin-engined bomber crashed on the 79th floor of the building, killing fourteen people.
 * <span style="color: #17d9ce; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">In January 2000, 2 employees made a free fall of forty floors when an elevator cable broke. The lift was only stopped by the security system at the 4th floor.