{"id":1697,"date":"2013-09-08T16:07:22","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T16:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2013-09-09T03:09:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T03:09:44","slug":"empire-state-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=1697","title":{"rendered":"Empire State Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

We trekked up the Empire State Building<\/a> on Friday, skipping all queues courtesy of a friend who works here. It’s great to get a feel for New York from atop the highest observation platform (until the one in Freedom Tower<\/a> opens in 2015, that is). A very vertical experience, some impressions of which are posted after the break.<\/p>\n

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Midtown madness, with Rockefeller Center on the left and view over Central Park<\/em><\/p>\n

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View across Central Park towards Harlem with Jackie Onassis Reservoir<\/em><\/p>\n

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Rockefeller Center<\/a> (1930-1939, left)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Towards Queens, with UN Headquarters<\/a>\u00a0(1948-1952)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Met Life Building<\/a>\u00a0(1958-1963)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Towards the northeast, with Lever House<\/a> (1951-1952) shining through<\/em><\/p>\n

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Trump World Tower<\/a>\u00a0(1999-2001)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Towards the south, with Flatiron Building (1902) where Broadway and Fifth Avenue meet\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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230 Fifth rooftop restaurant<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Broadway \/ 37th – great example of NYC 1916 zoning restrictions<\/a> leading to pyramidal setback structures<\/em><\/p>\n

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One Penn Plaza<\/a> (1970-1972)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Empire State Building (1929-1931) from Lexington<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We trekked up the Empire State Building on Friday, skipping all queues courtesy of a friend who works here. It’s great to get a feel for New York from atop the highest observation platform (until the one in Freedom Tower … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1715,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/1715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}