Empire State Building
Tristan’s parents were in New York during five days for Thanksgiving. We went to the Empire State Building together.
The Empire State Building is the biggest skyscraper of New York. It opened in 1931. It is 381 meters in height and with the antenna it is 443,2. His name comes from one of the nicknames of New York City : The Empire State.
There are 102 floors but the main observatory is on the 86th floor. It is located on Manhattan. The construction took only one year. There were 3400 workers who could work in the same time. Some of them were « sky boys » : they assembled the pieces of the building and they worked really heigh without any protection. Four and half floors was built each week. During the night the Empire State Building is lightning, the colours change for each event or season. Now it is red and yellow (becaue of the autumn).
Here are some pictures :
A sky boy building the Empire State Building, we can see the Chrysler Tower behind him.
Famous picture of some sky boys taking a break.
The Empire State Building.
The Empire States Building's current colors by night.
Manhattan's Downtown from the observatory, we can see the financial center and also the Liberty Statue on the Hudson River very far away.
A picture to show how the other buildings are small compared to the Empire State Building.
A zoom on the Flatiron Building.
Once again the Chrysler Building.
Finally Macy's, the largest store in the world! There's a big crowd because of the Black Friday.
It was really blowing!
Isa and Serge, Tristan's lovely parents!