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Empire State Building
November 6th, 2009 by Travel
The Empire State Building is an iconic building located in New York City, New York, and was used as a broadcast point from its tower, for observation, and at one point would have been a stopping station for zeppelins before being found to be too unstable.
It stood at the world’s tallest building from its final completion in 1931 until the finishing of the World Trade Center’s North Tower in 1972, and is now the tallest building in New York since the obliteration of the World Trade Center. Construction took from January of 1930 until May of 1931, being one of the fastest constructions for a building of its gigantic size. The building has survived a direct head on collision with a B-25 bomber in the 1940s. Since the collapse of the World Trade Center the Empire State Building has come back into the main service center for commercial broadcast stations for radio and television, and it has been broadcasting signals since 1931.
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