The Empire State Building is a 102-story skyscraper and office building located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (381 m), and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 feet (443 m) high. Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, the Empire State. It stood as the world's tallest building for nearly 40 years, from its completion in early 1931 until the topping out of the original World Trade Center's North Tower in late 1970. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was again the tallest building in New York, until One World Trade Center reached a greater height in April 2012. The Empire State Building is currently the fifth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States and the 29th-tallest in the world. It is also the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas. When measured by pinnacle height, it is the fourth-tallest building in the United States.
Empire State Building in The Hot War[]
The Empire State Building stood as the world's tallest building for 21 years, until being toppled by the Soviet atomic bomb which hit New York in May 1952. The falling skyscraper crushed a nearby hotel like a sledgehammer hitting a railroad spike. Among those killed in the crushed hotel was politician Averell Harriman, a key adviser to President Harry Truman, and possible presidential candidate himself.[1]
The nearby Chrysler Building suffered a similar fate.
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