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Empire State Building - Antenna

Empire State Building was the world's tallest building from 1931 to 1972.* Preceded by Chrysler Building Surpassed by World Trade Center (1972-2001) Sears Tower (1973) Information Location 350 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10118-0110 USA^ Status Complete Constructed 1929 - 1931 ^ Height Antenna/Spire 1,454 ft (443 m) Roof 1,250 ft (381 m) Technical Details Floor count 102 Floor area 2,200,000 sq. ft 200,000 sq. m External: 2 acres^ Companies Architect Shreve, Lamb and Harmon Contractor Starrett Brothers and Eken * Fully habitable, self-supported, from main entrance to rooftop; see world's tallest structures for other listings.

Landmarks

• Empire State Building, 350 Fifth Avenue (Fifth Avenue at 34th Street), ☎ +1-212-736-3100, [3]. Hours: Daily: 8:00 - 24:00 with summer hours normally being extended.. Once again the tallest building in New York, since the destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers on 11 September 2001. Between its completion in 1930 and the building of the Twin Towers, the New York icon also held the record as the tallest building in the world. Admission: Adults: $16.00, Youth (12 - 17): $14.00, Children (6 - 11): $10.00, Seniors (62+) or Military with ID: $14.00, Military in uniform or toddlers (Under 5): Free; 102nd floor Observatory tickets are only sold at the Observatory ticket office, located on the 2nd floor of the building, which cost an additional $14.00 to regular tickets..

• Grand Central Terminal, 42nd Street and Park Avenue (Subway: 4, 5, 6, 7, and S lines), [4]. Station hours: 05:30 - 01:30.

• Chrysler Building, 405 Lexington Ave at 42nd Street.

• Daily News Building, 220 East 42nd Street (Between 2nd and 3rd Avenues). This Art Deco design classic, completed in 1930 to a design by Raymond Hood, was made famous by the films; to be admired are the extreme verticality of the design, the understated setbacks and functional design. The newspaper no longer holds offices here, but a visit to the foyer is well worth a visit if passing, if only to see the newspaper's giant globe sculpture and wall weather stations.

• Citicorp Center With its distinctive slanted roof and long, slender base columns, this building is another great skyscrpaper with a grand atrium
• MetLife Building Since it was built on it has been probably most hated building in New York, mostly because it rises up over Grand Central Station, completely blocking the view up Park Avenue, but it is a good example of modern architecture between 44th & 45th streets

• United Nations Headquarters, First Avenue at 46th Street (No parking available; take public transport to Grand Central Station then walk, or take the M15 bus up 1st Avenue or down 2nd Avenue), [5]. The UN HQ sits on an 18-acre site between 42nd and 48th Streets, and between First Avenue and the East River. It is noted for its gardens and outdoor sculpture. There is a charge for the tours of the General Assembly and Secretariat but you can visit the Visitors' Lobby for free. There are two levels to the lobby area which includes exhibits, gift shop, bookshop etc. If just visiting the lobby, don't join any queues once you're in the lobby - just find your way around. There is little in the way of signs to tell you where you can go - this is the UN, well-meaning but not well organised. Guided tours only; Adults: $11.50, Seniors: $8.50, Students: $7.50, Children (6 - 14 years): $6.50.

• Waldorf-Astoria, 301 Park Avenue (Between 49th and 50th Streets), ☎ +1-212-355-3100, [6].

• St. Patrick's Cathedral, 460 Madison Avenue, (Fifth Avenue) (Between 50th and 51st Streets), ☎ +1-212-753-2261 (spctrojas@aol.com, fax: +1-212-755-4128), [7]. A big, grand Episcopal church is in this area as well.

• Rockefeller Plaza, Address, [8]. The Christmas Tree, the Skating Rink, the shops and hubbub - you can't miss it. The Christmas Tree and the Skating Rink are not year round. You may take skating lessons. There are several dining establishments overlooking this area. The art deco buildings of Rockefeller Center are quite cool. Saks Fifth Avenue is across the street, and there are many other stores throughout the complex.

• Radio City Music Hall, 1260 6th Avenue (Between 50th and 51st Streets), ☎ +1-212-307-7171, [9]. Monday–Sunday: 11:30 – 18:00. See the Rockettes, another show or just tour the famous Art Deco masterpiece.

• SONY Wonder Technology Lab, 550 Madison Avenue, ☎ +1-212-833-5414, [10]. Tuesday - Saturday: 10:00 - 17:00, Sunday: 12:00 - 17:00, Closed Monday and major holidays. Last admission entrance is 30 minutes before closing. An interactive hands-on experience of cutting edge technology, sponsored by Sony. Reservations are highly recommended.

• Carnegie Hall, 154 West 57th Street (57th Street and Seventh Avenue), [11].

Museums and galleries

• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 11 West 53 Street (Between Fifth and Sixth avenues), ☎ +1-212-708-9400 (info@moma.org), [12]. Saturday - Monday: 10:30 - 17:30, Closed Tuesday, Wednesday - Thursday: 10:30 - 17:30, Friday: 10:30 - 20:00, Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Days.. One of the greatest and most popular collections of modern art, on a par with the Tate Modern in or 's Centre Georges Pompidou. Exceedingly popular so be warned: queues for tickets start early and stretch long. To avoid these, turn up at the door a half hour before opening. Travellers may wish to utilize a new, unofficial service of podcasts for MoMA tours - simply download to your iPod and off you go! The newly-renovated and re-opened building is as much a draw as the outstanding collection. Considered by many to possess arguably the best collection of modern masterpieces world-wide, MoMA houses such important art works as Vincent van Gogh's , by Pablo Picasso, a Monet triptych, by Henri Matisse, by Salvador Dalí, by Paul Cézanne, by Frida Kahlo, by Piet Mondrian, and works by leading American artists such as Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns, Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, and Chuck Close. MoMA also holds renowned art photography and design collections. Tip: get there early and take the elevator to the top floor where many of the major attractions are, then work your way down the floors. Hungry / thirsty punters can be refreshed at one of several great cafés or the in-house restaurant The Modern. Admission: Adults: $20, Seniors: $16, Students with ID: $12, Children under 16 and members: free. Free for all every Friday 16:00 – 20:00 (tickets not available in advance)..

• Museum of Television & Radio, 25 West 52 Street, ☎ +1-212-621-6600, [14]. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 12:00 - 18:00, Thursday: 12:00 - 20:00, Closed Monday. Founded in 1976 to preserve and collect television programs as a service to the public. The museum has expanded and consists of two museum branches in Los Angeles and New York City. The two museums hold over 100,000 television programs that are available to the public. Its programs provide a historical, artistic and cultural perspective to television and radio. You may use their library here for the price of admission. They have lots of old shows and a database so you can see if they have what you want. Admission: Members: free, Adults: $10, Students and senior citizens: $8.00, Children under fourteen: $5.00.

• American Folk Art Museum, 45 West 53rd Street, ☎ +1-212-265-1040 (info@folkartmuseum.org, fax: +1-212-265-2350), [15]. Tuesday - Sunday: 10:30 - 17:30, Friday: 10:30 - 19:30, Closed Monday. Admission: Adults: $9.00, Students & Seniors: $7.00, Children under 12, members, or admission after 17:30 on Friday: Free.

Parks and gardens

• Bryant Park, Main Library 42nd and 6th Avenue, ☎ +1-212-768-4242 (bpc@urbanmgt.com, fax: +1-212-719-3499), [16]. Free wireless Internet; children's carousel; several food and drink kiosks and seasonal shows such as Fashion Week

Other destinations

• Roosevelt Island Tramway, 60th Street at 2nd Avenue. Take a quick tram ride to Roosevelt Island for gorgeous city and river views. (Service on the tram was restored following unplanned stoppages resulting from power failures on the line.)

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Moon-lit
Made by jver64
Seen from the Empire State Building across the East River to Long Island and Queens. The moon was bright enough to shoot with ISO 100 and f/5, so noise and sharpness were much better under control. Tripods are not allowed at the Empire State Building, whose observation platform can get quite windy so this image was my best chance using the balustrade. By the way the three dots at the horizon as a rope of pearls are actually aircrafts departing JFK International Airport. Amazing view.


B-25 vs Empire State
Made by Hawk914
Project 914 Archives (Corbis image) This incident occurred 61 years ago this July 28th. Here's the accompanying caption for this image: A view of the hole rammed into the 78th and 79th stories of the Empire State Building by a U.S. Army Bomber flying in the fog. Part of the wreckage hangs from the 78th story, New York, New York, July 28, 1945. The bomber was a North American B-25 Mitchell named 'Old John Feather Merchant'. The 3 crewmembers on the aircraft and 11 others were killed. The following is an account from a fella named Bill Larkins, who was present on the day: I lived in the McAlpin Hotel at 34th and Broadway for a year and had probably been there about seven months by the time of the accident. I was at the time a Corporal in the AAF and assigned to the AAF Training Aids Division at One Park Avenue. We worked six days a week so I was on my way to work on the Saturday morning. I was just coming down in the elevator and getting off on the ground floor when the whole thing seemed to shake and there was a loud boom. We went out into the street to see what was happening but as I remember nobody knew anything. At one point we could see a hole with smoke coming out of it in the Empire State Building (the 34th Street side) and had no idea why. The rumors were that it was a bomb. The fog settled back down and you could no longer see the hole. Luckily it was a Saturday morning or the death toll would have been very high as almost all of the offices were empty. I walked to work down 34th Street and don't remember any debris on the street. I think I didn't get back there until late afternoon and as I recall it was roped off and you could not get near the building. I don't think that I found out that it had been an airplane until the next day when the New York Times came out. It's hard for young people today to understand, with instant news on TV and the Internet, but we not only did not have television I didn't have a radio. If anyone would like to listen to an MP3 of an original MBS news broadcast covering this incident, send me a message through flickr and I'll hook you up. Fade to Black...


"Chapter one - He adored New York City. He idolised it out of all proportion." (Explored)
Made by pollywaffle
' Chapter one. He adored New York City. He idolised it all out of proportion. Uh, no. Make that He romanticised it all out of proportion. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin. Uh... no. Let me start this over. Chapter one. He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle, bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him, New York meant beautiful women and street-smart guys who seemed to know all the angles. ' Title taken from the opening dialogue of the Woody Allen film, Manhattan. Taken with my Pentax K1000 with my 28mm lens using Ilford HP5+ 35mm film. I really love the grain you get with this film! Printed with an Ilford Grade 5 Multigrade filter. Finally getting round to printing my photos from America! Taken on September 10th 2009. Only digital PP was to adjust levels to match the actual photo as my scanner reduces contrast. Taken from the observation deck of the Empire State Building. TWITTER I apologise for how long my descriptions have got recently. EXPLORED - #162


Midtown Blue Hour
Made by Rob Kroenert (Wiggum03)
I live in San Francisco, so New York City is a long way to go for a one-hour meeting. But what a great city to visit, even just for a quick work trip. My meeting was Monday morning, which meant I needed to fly on Sunday. I left really early with the idea of getting to the city in time for blue hour photos. My hotel was close to the Empire State Building, so after dropping off my bag I headed right up to the observation deck on the 86th floor and made it there well before sunset. Taking low-light shots from the Empire State Building’s observation deck is a little tricky. There are big crowds to deal with, of course, but the main problem is that tripods are prohibited. I tried some high-ISO handheld shots until it got pretty dark, then I switched to a variety of MacGyver-esque balancing acts that involved resting the camera on various ledges and awkwardly propping it into position with whatever miscellaneous objects I happened to have in my pockets. Turns out you can do a lot with a lens cap, an iPod, and a paperback book. This is the view looking north, with the Chrysler Building on the far right.


Manhattan at Night
Made by alpine.
From the Empire State Building observation deck. 3 Exposures, if i remember right they were, 2 second, 8 second and 20 seconds, but i set my camera to aperture priority mode, applied +-2ev autobracketing mode and let the camera do the rest. I was using one of those GorrillaPod bendy tripods, and 1/2 the long exposures were ruined because i didn't keep it steady enough, press the capture button very gently and then just leave the Camera alone! GorrillaPods are great, but you really have to be very careful when you need the camera to be as steady as possible, as they are designed to be versitile more than ultra-steady. The Empire state building is worth it, but only at Sunset/Night. I came early hoping to catch the sunset, which would have been ace, but unfortunately the queues were so bad (1.5 hours) that by the time i had battled my way through security, then the queue for tickets i had completely missed it and had to settle with night. I took a fair few good photos though so im happy.


Manhattan, INCEPTED
Made by friskypics
Manhattan. Incepted. This reminds me of the scene in INCEPTION, where Paris is turned up on itself. If you happen to land in New York's La Guardia airport, and the wind directions corporate - you will be in for quite a treat. In order to land from the North, the aircraft flies above Manhattan, around lower Manhattan, up the East River above Brooklyn and finally on to Queens to land in one of LGA's runways. Worth the price of a ticket! My window was more than a little dirty, but that wont stop me from posting this rather unique view of the Empire State Building. The plane is not tilted - it was incredibly difficult for me to get a good angle.


Com un vaixell ancorat al centre de Nova York / As a ship anchored in Broadway
Made by SBA73
El primer gratacels de Nova York, el Flatiron Building, vist des del Empire State Building. Tots dos es troben a la 5ª Avinguda de Nova York. ------------------------------------- The first newyorker skyscraper, the Flatiron Building, seen from it's most famed descendant, the Empire State Building. Both are in the 5th Ave., but only the flatiron stands on the 5th Ave., AND Broadway. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatiron_Building


manhattan is an island
Made by absolutwade
Seen from the 102nd floor of the Empire State Building. My first time up here was in as a tourist. Back then I knew very little of NYC and never thought I would live here. Now I have five years worth of memories of this city and know the downtown area I once observed at a glance as my own neighborhood. This will probably be my last time up here for a long time. It was good to have mom in town to get an excuse to make the trek up here one more time before I leave.


Miracle on 34th Street
Made by pierofix
34th Street with Broadway, New York (NY), USA. 16/08/2011. Part of the . Dall'Empire State Building. Quella nel centro è la 34ª strada. In basso, all'incrocio con Broadway, ecco Macy's. Tutto questo vi ricorda qualcosa? Tipo... Miracolo Nella 34ª Strada? Eh, bè... sì. :) * * * Fuji Instax 210 Wide + Scanner Epson PerfectionV500.


nyc: pure manhattan
Made by smif
one of the purest, in my opinion, view of manhattan. looking from the top of the empire state building towards north-east. chrysler building, one of the most recognizable buildings in nyc, queensboro bridge in the background. this photograph and the description of the building in Schamp.com guide: www.schmap.com/eastcoast/attractions/#p=5395&i=5395_7...


NYC Skyline
Made by satosphere
A panaroma composed of two images of midtown and upper Manhattan, taken from the Empire State at about 6:30pm. The main road that you see is the fifth avenue. The brite building straight ahead is the Rockefeller Center. The two images that it is composed of are probably the best photos that I have taken so far. Lacking a tripod, it was quite a challenge to take these 4 second exposure images. Manhattan, New York City, USA


Follow the Yellow Brick Road
Made by Mick Canon
A view from the Empire State Building of the glowing streets of 5th Avenue and Broadway. This an HDR from a single RAW exposure. I may have over processed this one. I re uploaded this 15 times before I was happy with the color and saturation. It doesn't look quite the same after it's been uploaded. If someone can give me some advice or a link on how to fix this it will be really appreciated. Thank you in advance.


Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges
Made by Rob Kroenert (Wiggum03)
I wish I could have taken some up-close photos of the venerable Brooklyn Bridge during my quick trip to NYC earlier this week. What a cool thing it is, and so different than the Golden Gate Bridge - gothic vs. art deco. I had to settle for this 400mm shot from the observation deck of the Empire State Building, with my camera balanced precariously on a ledge (no tripods allowed).


[1] A Hazy Day in New York City
Made by caruba
View from the Empire State building, south toward downtown & Financial District; New York City, summer 2009 ! (If you've been to any of the visible areas before, leave a note if you like!) -- I just returned from a fantastic vacation that included stops in no less than 10 American and Canadian cities. For now, I'll be posting one picture from each city. :)


NYC
Made by Soumya...
one from my archives. this is my second tour with the new canon eos digital rebel xt camera. i knew nothing! but still could capture some decent shots due to the sheer brilliance of this magic machine! i love my camera... retouched it with a graduated tobacco layer in PS as the sky was looking very dull and it was quite foggy when i clicked this one.


Golden Streets of New York
Made by meironke
Nighttime on the top of the Empire State Building in Manhattan, New York City - Viewing the Flatiron Building and Broadway, 5th Ave intersection Nachts auf dem Empire State Building in Manhattan, New York City - Das Flatiron Gebäude und die Kreuzung des Broadway mit der 5th Avenue (Taken with: Canon EOS 40D - 8 s, f/5, 70 mm, ISO 100)


new york state of mind
Made by i enrapture
i know what i'm needing i don't want to waste more time i'm in a new york state of mind 35mm film i miss new york pretty much every day tumblr (please reblog from this post) explore #27 :D


Manhattan i més enllà / Manhattan and yonder
Made by SBA73
El Chrysler Building vist des del mirador del Empire State Building. ----------------------------------- The Chrysler Building seen from the observation deck in the Empire State Building. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_building


The Big Cheese...
Made by Jonathan Herbert
This picture of the flatiron building taken from the top of the Empire State building. I used photomatrix to get the tones of the buildings and streets. Then I used Topaz Adjust to get the building to pop and finally I used the color effect pro plugin to create the final B\W image.


Sim city ouest
Made by A.G. Photographe
!!! Please, don't leave award or fav without a comment (even a small small small), thank you !!! From Empire State Buiding, Manhattan, New York (HDR 9 RAW). My Facebook