NEW YORK | The Empire State Building | 1,472' Pinnacle | 103 FLOORS | 1931 - Page 39

QUEENSNYMAN · #**761** Posted **Sep 18, 2011, 9:16 PM**

FROM: NYBOY75

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Wh4DUMCCU8

animatedmartian · #**762** Posted **Sep 30, 2011, 10:49 PM**

New York by AdrienG.

CarlosV · #**763** Posted **Oct 2, 2011, 8:33 PM**

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CarlosV · #**764** Posted **Oct 7, 2011, 5:51 PM**

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animatedmartian · #**765** Posted **Oct 7, 2011, 6:44 PM**

Midtown/Chelsea/Meatpacking by austinNYC

xnyr · #**766** Posted **Oct 7, 2011, 8:12 PM**

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Are they installing more antennas?

CarlosV · #**767** Posted **Oct 7, 2011, 9:20 PM**

^^^
looks like it...more junk !

they should remove all that crap

animatedmartian · #**768** Posted **Oct 8, 2011, 8:59 PM**

ESP is starting to look like an alien radio stick.

CarlosV · #**769** Posted **Oct 9, 2011, 4:27 PM**

^^^

so true!

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CarlosV · #**770** Posted **Oct 14, 2011, 8:17 PM**

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Danielson27 · #**771** Posted **Oct 17, 2011, 3:20 AM**

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Originally Posted by CarlosV

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maybe LI & Fung ( the largest tenant in the building) plans on putting some signage up top... Then the next step after that is to change the name of the building to the Li & Fung Building

philofra · #**772** Posted **Oct 18, 2011, 8:43 PM**

NYguy · #**773** Posted **Oct 21, 2011, 4:07 PM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/re.../26scapes.html

Not Just a Perch for King Kong

By CHRISTOPHER GRAY
September 23, 2010

A 1931 artist's conception of a cross section of the mooring mast, with a dirigible leashed to the top.

The original docking level is one floor above the observatory, up some steep stairs behind an unmarked door. The stairs lead to a circular room perhaps 25 feet across. A door leads out to the circular terrace where passengers fresh from Europe or South America — and their steamer trunks — were to have set foot on American ground.

The terrace is perhaps two and a half feet wide, and the parapet could not be any higher than that; standing there is like standing on the raised lip of a Campbell’s soup can, a quarter-mile up. And because the terrace is circular, each side disappearing left and right, there is an uncomfortable sensation of being pushed outward.

Never been up on that level, the "103rd" floor, but I've seen various photos of it being open...

millertime83

hunser · #**774** Posted **Oct 21, 2011, 8:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

Never been up on that level, the "103rd" floor, but I've seen various photos of it being open...

Me neither. I wonder if and when it is accessible, I couldn't find any info on official sites.

It certainly would be a big experience standing out there and just feel wind.

An old article, http://gothamist:

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Did you know that the 103rd floor of the Empire State Building is not open to the public, but is open to celebrities? The space is very small, with a thin walkway going around it and hardly any barrier separating you from the thin air. The barrier only comes up to one's knees, if that. Yesterday our intrepid photographer Katie Sokoler braved the vertigo-inducing space during a VIP tour of the iconic building... and you won't see photos like this anywhere else, because most of the other press people were too scared to go outside to experience, or document it! For those who want to get a similar view, we're told for some extra cash the general public can visit the 102nd floor, which is closed in and significantly less scary.