Empire+State

=History = The Empire State Building was designed by William F. Lamb, who produced the building drawings in just two weeks. The excavation of the site began on January 22, 1930, and construction on the building started on March 17th (St. Patrick's Day( The project involved 3,400 workers, that were mostly immigrants from Europe. Five workers died during the construction. The building's opening coincided with the Great Depression in the United States,  More than thirty people have committed suicide from the top of the building, the first suicide occurred even before it was finished, by a worker who had been fired. The fence around the observatory terrace was put up in 1947 after five people tried to jump during a three-week span. At 9:40 a.m.on Saturday, July 28, 1945, William Franklin Smith, Jr., crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building, between the 79th and 80th floors. =Characteristics = The Empire State Building is 1,250 ft at the 102nd floor, and including the 203 ft. pinnacle, its full height reaches1,453 ft, The building has 85 stories of commercial and office space  It has an indoor and outdoor observation deck on the 86th floor. The remaining 16 stories represent the Art Deco tower, which is capped by a 102nd-floor observatory. At the top of the tower is the 203 ft pinnacle, much of which is covered by broadcast antennas, with a lightning rod at the top. The Empire State Building was the first building to have more than 100 floors. It has 6,500 windows and 73 elevators, and there are 1,860 steps from street level to the 102nd floor. It has a total floor area of 2,768,591 square ft The Empire State Building cost $40,948,900. =Renovations or Changes = The office and retail tower and Otis Elevator, the nation's best-known elevator manufacturer, were set to announce Thursday a partnership to replace and modernize the building's elevators to bring them into the computer age and reduce passenger wait time. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">The newly refurbished elevators promise quick and efficient rides to make the prized address even more attractive. <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Upgrading all 68 elevators and replacing 13-ton machines with new equipment while workers, tourists and others enter and leave will be a major effort. The elevators will carry nearly 10 million people each year, Otis said

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<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">[] <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">[] =<span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Names = <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Daniela Imeri <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Doménica Maselli <span style="color: #008000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;">Nicole Castañeda