Who Really Built the Empire State Building?

New research reconstructs the lives of the immigrant, working-class, and Indigenous men who built the nation’s most iconic ...
KWCH

On This Day: Empire State Building opens in NYC

WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) - With the simple press of a button more than 200 miles away, the world’s tallest office building was officially opened. The button was pressed by president Herbert Hoover in ...
PBS

Empire State Building

In 1945, a B-25 bomber on its way to Newark Airport in New Jersey crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building. Amazingly, the building suffered only minor damage. The Empire State ...
The Village Voice

Empire State Goes Back to the 1930s; Us, Too

amNY‘s Urbanite announces a $600 million restoration of the Empire State Building’s lobby and facade. Aside from some tedious office modernization upstairs, the renovations will be dazzling and retro: ...