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View from the Marriott
Marquis
facing
South
Hudson
River & New Jersey
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Another view from our
room
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Elevator lobby
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Metropolitan Art Museum
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Cool Fountain
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Park Ave. "apartments"
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Sphinx
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Atrium at the museum
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Egypt dudes
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Surprised Pharaoh
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Old graffiti
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Indoor reflection (art)
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Main lobby (more art)
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Same
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Mary waiting for me
to do my "art"
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Graffiti in Soho
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Times Square
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Our Hotel
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More times square
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Start of "Downtown"
Bus Tour
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Well?
We
just gotta go here.
www.esbnyc.com
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This is is where King
Kong went.
Note
pigeon at upper right
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Empire
State Building Fun Facts:
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1,454
feet tall (443 meters).
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Completed
in 1931.
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Cost:
$41 MILLION (initial estimate
was $50 million).
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200,000
cubic feet of Indiana
limestone for exterior.
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Renovation
costs over the last
10 years totaled $67 million.
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Observatory
on 86th floor (1050
feet).
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It
took 250 bricklayers and
masons to lay the 10 million bricks used.
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Designed
by William Lamb.
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Financed
by: John Rascob &
Alfred Smith.
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60,000
tons of steel
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2.5
million feet of wire
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120
miles of pipe
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1000+
miles of telephone cable
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Time
to completion: 1 year and
45 days working 7 days per week.
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Opening
day: May 1, 1931.
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Nearly
4 million visitors per
year (at $9.00 each).
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6500
windows
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1860
steps
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73
elevators (operating at speeds
of up to 1000 feet per minute)
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World's
tallest skyscraper at
the time.
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Lobby
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Facing West
Hudson
River and
Newark
International Airport
New
Jersey
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North, Chrysler Building
The
black building to the
right is
Donald
Trump's new apartment
building.
Starting
price $900,000 up to $11,000,000
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Looking South
World
Trade Center
Wall
Street
Verrazano-Narrows
Bridge
(far
left
background)
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South East
Brooklyn
in background
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The very top
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Brooklyn
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East River, Queens
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Local wildlife
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Feeding time
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More fauna
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North (note Central
Park)
George
Washington Bridge
(left top)
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Mary (note windblown
hair)
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Looking North
Chrysler Building, Met Life Building
(formerly Pan Am
Building), East River
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No kid throwing either
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Long way down for a
cab
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View from 7th Avenue
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South West (Jersey)
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World Trade Center
silhouette
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Statue Of Liberty
(in
the middle)
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Jersey
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Lunch at Caliente Cab
Co.
Greenwich
Village
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Here's what we
did next
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Then we did this
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Our
real mission in NYC
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