An American ICON
Sitting on the corner of 34th and 5th streets on about two acres of land sits one of man's greatest engineering feats, the granddaddy of all modern skyscrapers, the Empire State building. Standing 1453 feet tall and having 102 stories above the ground is the 102nd observatory, which gives us one of the most breath taking views in the world. As I was standing there I couldn't help from being over whelmed, by the fact that the building that I was standing in was over three times as old as me. The Empire State Building has become an icon for New York. When some one says New York, the first thing that I think of is the Empire State Building, one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. In 1955 the Empire State Building was named one of the "Seven modern Wonders of the western hemisphere." It also became the eighth wonder of the modern world (New York City Insider). Excavation began on Jan. 22, 1930 of this building designed by Architects from Shreve, Lamb & Harmon Associates. They started construction on March 17, 1930. They set a fast pace for constructing this building they were going up 4.5 stories a week that's flying (Empire State Building facts page). When I look back on this building I can't believe how they got this th
This is a gigantic structure there is 37 million cubic feet inside the walls. The building tips the scales at 365,000 tons. Only 60,000 of which is the steel framework, which holds the whole thing together. There is 310,000 square feet of marble in this building, which was used for the elevator lobbies and corridors on the floors that contain the offices. There is over 50 miles of radiator pipe in the building to help keep it worm in the wintertime. Air conditioning wasn't installed until 1950 and it has been up graded since. With 70 miles of water pipes in side this building. The building kind of acts as a water tower in the fact that it stores some water in tanks on various floors the highest one being the 101st floor. This water system handles about 26,500 cubic feet of water a day. Tim Allen would love this building because it has power. It has 2,500,000 feet of electrical wire. Each year it goes through 40 million kilowatt hours. Can you imagine want the electric bill would be for one month? And you thought that it had a lot of electrical wires, well it has 1060 miles of phone lines running thought out it. There is enough phone lines there to go to Fort Wayne and back 20 times. Now that is a lot of wire. Each month over 100 tons of garbage is taken away from the building and that is every month. So that is 1200 tons of trash each year. It takes 400 people to make this place look and run as smooth as possible. Of those 400, 150 of them are the maintenance workers they are the ones that make the Empire State Building want it is today (Empire State Bui
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