A feat of true American accomplishment, the Empire State Building in New York City stands 1454 feet tall and is currently the 9th tallest building in the world and the 4th tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.. This NY monument has 102 stories, and was the first building to every have more than 100 stories. The Empire State Building NYC was also named the 7th wonder of the world by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The 7th world wonder has attracted 120 million people to its New York observatories. That is nearly 3.6 million visitors a year! A cultural landmark as well as a New York landmark, the Empire State Building has been in more than 90 films, including North by Northwest, Annie Hall, and of course, King Kong.
The Empire State Building construction was completed in 1931, in the middle of the Great Depression in New York City. At the time, the Empire State Building held the mantle as the tallest building in the world, beating out the other skyscraper being built at the same time in New York City: the Chrysler Building. The project involved 3,400 workers, made up of mostly European immigrants, and hundreds of Mohawk iron workers. The first use of the lights at the top of the Empire State Building were to signal to New Yorkers that President Franklin Roosevelt had won the 1932 Presidential election.
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