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The Empire State Building is a 103-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street. It has a roof height of 1,250 feet (380 m), and with its antenna spire included, it stands a total of 1,454 feet (443 m) high. Its name is derived from the nickname for New York, the Empire State. It stood as the world's tallest building for nearly 40 years, from its completion in early 1931 until the topping out of the original World Trade Center's North Tower in late 1970. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was again the tallest building in New York (although it was no longer the tallest in the US or the world), until One World Trade Center reached a greater height on April 30, 2012. The Empire State Building is currently the fourth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States (after the One World Trade Center, the Willis Tower and Trump International Hotel and Tower, both in Chicago), and the 25th-tallest in the world (the tallest now is Burj Khalifa, located in Dubai). It is also the fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas.
The Empire State Building is generally thought of as an American cultural icon. It is designed in the distinctive Art Deco style and has been named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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The Empire State Building in Midtown as seen from the top of the GE Building (Rockefeller Centre) - the observation deck atop the skyscraper is known as "Top of the Rock" or TotR.
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The Empire State Building in Midtown as seen from the top of the GE Building (Rockefeller Centre) - the observation deck atop the skyscraper is known as "Top of the Rock" or TotR.
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The Empire State Building's observation decks on the 86th and 102nd floors.
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View from the 86th observation deck of the Empire State Building looking towards Midtown and Lower Manhattan. The partially built "Freedom Tower" a.k.a. 1 WTC ( 1 World Trade Centre) can be seen in the distance.
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