A long way down

Here is a man building the Empire State Building in 1930. It is still one of the worlds tallest buildings, currently #5 in the Americas. This building is 103 stories tall and was built in just over one year. A record that still stands for such a tall building. This was made possible by the thousands of workers who needed a job during the start of the depression and they were willing to work for poor wages.








Here we have two men repairing an antenna on top of the Empire State Building (ESB). If the workers are careful this work is quite safe because they use safety lines to hold them if they slip. The ESB is 1453 feet tall to the very top which makes it one of the worlds tallest buildings still. When the World Trade Center was destroyed on 9/11 the ESB became the tallest building in New York city again.