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Het Empire State Building heeft 102 verdiepingen, met wereldberoemde observatiedekken op de 86e en 102e verdieping. Het openlucht observatiedek op de 86e verdieping biedt een 360-graden uitzicht over New York City, terwijl het afgesloten observatiedek op de 102e verdieping het hoogste punt is dat is inbegrepen in de Observation Deck-ervaring.

The Empire State Building is a working office building. About 2.8 million square feet is leased to companies like LinkedIn, Shutterstock and JCDecaux, with two observation decks and a museum above those floors and shops and restaurants at street level. The tower also carries an antenna that was enlarged in 1950 so more broadcast stations could use it.

No, nobody lives in the Empire State Building. The floors are leased as offices, with the observation decks and the museum above them and shops and restaurants at street level. It’s one of the largest office buildings in the world, not an apartment building.

Het Empire State Building weegt ongeveer 365.000 ton.

De buitenkant bestaat uit Indiana kalksteen, graniet, baksteen, aluminium en roestvrij staal, allemaal onderdeel van de Art Deco-architectuur die het gebouw sinds 1931 tot een icoon van New York City heeft gemaakt.

The Empire State Building has 6,514 windows. Every one of them was replaced during the energy retrofit that began in 2009, in the biggest window replacement the Landmarks Preservation Commission has ever authorized, with the frames put back in the building’s original red.

The Empire State Building has 73 Otis elevators. They’re the reason almost nobody has to face the 1,860 steps between street level and the 102nd Floor Observation Deck. New ones arrived with the $65 million modernization program that also replaced the building’s 6,514 windows.

Yes, the Empire State Building has its own ZIP code, 10118. A ZIP code normally covers a whole neighborhood rather than one address, so a single building holding one is unusual. The code covers the offices, the shops at street level and the observation decks above them.

The Empire State Building is famous for opening in 1931 as the world’s tallest building and for the Art Deco design that made it New York’s most famous building. Cornell researchers named it the most photographed building in the world in 2011, and more than 2.5 million visitors still come to see it every year.