Empire State Building

PHOTOS: Views From The Empire State Building's Secret 103rd Floor

Posted 05.23.2012

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It's another New York secret hidden in plain sight. The famed Empire State Building (formerly the tallest building in NYC) opens its 86th- and 102n...

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1 WTC Might Not Reach Symbolic Height, After All

Posted 05.10.2012

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Just as 1 World Trade Center surpassed the Empire State Building in April, triumphantly claiming the title as New York City's tallest building, the bu...

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Empire State Building Is Even More Green Than It Thought It'd Be

Reuters | Posted 05.08.2012

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By Nick Zieminski NEW YORK, May 7 (Reuters) - An upgrade of New York's Empire State Building has reduced the skyscraper's energy use b...

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One World Trade Center Becomes NYC's Tallest Skyscraper

AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 04.30.2012

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NEW YORK — One World Trade Center, the monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, claimed the title of N...

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With An Asterisk, WTC Will Be Tallest Building In US

AP/The Huffington Post | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 04.30.2012

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NEW YORK — One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, can now claim the ti...

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WATCH: 1 WTC Construction From Early Days To Now

Posted 04.26.2012

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As 1 World Trade Center inches closer to replacing the Empire State as the tallest building in New York, a newly released time-lapse video documents t...

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LOOK: 1 WTC To Surpass Empire State As Tallest Building In NYC Very Soon

Reuters | Posted 04.25.2012

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NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters) - One World Trade Center, being built at the site of the fallen twin towers, could surpass the Empire State Building a...

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An Interview With Empire State Building's Anthony Malkin: Bike Racks and Showers Won't Change the World

Michael P. Owens | Posted 05.28.2012

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The Empire State Building has become an inspiration and model for energy efficiency retrofits around the world.

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WATCH: 1 WTC Will Soon Surpass Empire State

Posted 03.19.2012

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The most expensive building in the world will soon be taller than the Empire State Building. The New York Daily News recently got an exclusive look at...

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Why 4 Couples Spent Their Valentine's Day Atop The Empire State Building

HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 02.16.2012

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What's more romantic than spending Valentine's Day at the Empire State Building a la "An Affair to Remember" or "Sleepless in Seattle"? How about gett...

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Empire State Building Sees Its First Gay Marriage

AP | KAREN MATTHEWS | Posted 04.15.2012

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NEW YORK — Two women who met as college students in Alaska and two men who met at a nightclub in Manhattan became the first same-sex couples Tue...

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Owner Of New York Landmark Plans Towering IPO

AP | ALEX VEIGA | Posted 04.14.2012

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Soon investors can take after King Kong and grab a piece of the Empire State Building. The company that runs the Depression-era skyscraper, the talle...

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Meet The Couples Who Will Say 'I Do' Atop The Empire State Building

The Huffington Post | Stephanie Hallett | Posted 02.13.2012

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Would you let Facebook users help plan your Big Day? For the four couples who won celebrity event planner Colin Cowie's "Wings of Love" win-a-weddi...

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Firefighter Races Up Empire State In 50-Pound Gear For Cancer Research

HuffingtonPost.com | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 02.10.2012

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After racing up the Empire State Building for charity while wearing 50 pounds of gear, Touche Howard dispelled his biggest fear -- that he would never...

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PHOTOS: Race To The Top Of Empire State Building

AP | By DEEPTI HAJELA | Posted 04.11.2012

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NEW YORK -- A German runner has won an annual race up 86 flights of stairs at the Empire State Building for a record seventh straight time. Stuttgart...

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Building a More Sustainable Future

Neil Wagner | Posted 03.19.2012

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The inspiration for today's comic strip, is an Iowa-based manufacturer using European technology to take the stuff we ate out of yesterday and make the stuff we use to build the stuff we'll live in tomorrow.

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N.Y. Building Cleaners Poised to Strike

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 12.28.2011

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Workers who clean more than 1,500 buildings in New York -- including iconic facilities such as the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center and the T...

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It's All About The View

nytimes.com | CHARLES v. BAGLI | Posted 02.24.2012

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The owners of the Empire State Building like to promote it as the most famous office building in the world. But the real moneymaker at the 102-stor...

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A Huffington Post Guide To Family Vacations In The Northeast

The Huffington Post | Ed Condran | Posted 12.21.2011

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Family vacations in the Northeast can be rewarding experiences or absolute disasters -- it all depends on pretrip homework. To make planning easier, w...

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Greening the Empire State Building

Ginna Kelly | Posted 09.29.2011

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Buildings in New York consume 80% of all energy. If you want to have a sound solution to the coal issue, you need to get serious about designing and running buildings very differently.

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PHOTOS: The Life & Death Of Buildings

Andrew Burmon | Posted 09.27.2011

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The fact that the Empire State Building is one of the most photographed landmarks in the world is exactly the reason it is the last edifice that needs...

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Bill Clinton: 14 Ways To Fix The Job Crisis

Newsweek | Bill Clinton | Posted 08.20.2011

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Next week in Chicago, the Clinton Global Initiative will focus on America for the first time, inviting business and political leaders to make specific...

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What I Wish Weiner Had Said Last Week When the Twitter Scandal Broke

Lev Raphael | Posted 08.07.2011

The American poet John Greenleaf Whitter had some wise words that apply to everyone who tweets first and thinks afterwards: "For of all sad words of t...

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Historic anniversary For The Empire State Building

History.com/Huffington Post | Posted 07.01.2011

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History.com - On this day in 1931, President Herbert Hoover officially dedicates New York City's Empire State Building, pressing a button from the Whi...

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The China-Europe-America Smackdown

Terry Tamminen | Posted 06.12.2011

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America, it could be worse. We could be Europe. I mean, we're still mostly in the race with China -- in the past five years, they improved energy effi...

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