Tag Archives: Empire State Building

Santa Kong and the Rockettes shared a photo-op atop the Empire State Building. This post is just an excuse to complain about the incredibly annoying earworm jingle for the Radio City Xmas Spectacular, which has been running about every three minutes on every station for the last month. (Via – Gothamist)

The two shots below are computer renderings of the view from the Empire State Building and what the view would be, were the ESB as tall as the almost-completed Burj Dubai, which is over 1000 feet taller even though Dubai suffers no lack of available land, relative to Manhattan. More comparisons are here. As a skyscraper junkie, I’d love to …

As is tradition, this weekend the Empire State Building is illuminated in lavender to commemorate gay Pride.

The NY Daily News demonstrated how easy it is to commit property fraud by falsely transferring the ownership of the Empire State Building to themselves. In one of the biggest heists in American history, the Daily News “stole” the $2 billion Empire State Building. And it wasn’t that hard. The News swiped the 102-story Art Deco skyscraper by drawing up …

Via Gothamist: The Empire State Building was lit in green last night to celebrate the fifth anniversary of Wicked. The show is grossing around $70M annually, making it one of Universal’s “most valuable properties.” That’s Kerry Ellis, the current Elphaba.