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I think this is the same one:
From other aerial shots online I've been able to place it near Fifth Avenue, a few blocks south of Rockefeller Center.
Somebody help this man! It's driving me NUTS!
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Well that building is between 42nd and 43rd streets on 5th avenue -- right across from the NY Public Library. Don't know the name, though. It is definitely not the Empire State Building. You can look up the intersection of 42nd and 5th avenue on google street view for more photos.
P.S. the address is 500 Fifth Avenue, NY, NY
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This is from Google:
500 Fifth Avenue
Building in New York City, New York
500 Fifth Avenue, located between West 42nd and 43rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, is a 60-floor, 709-foot office tower built in 1929-31 and designed by the firm of Shreve, Lamb & Harmon in the Art Deco style. Wikipedia
Height: 697' (212 m) CTBUH
Opened: 1931
Floors: 60
Architecture firm: Shreve, Lamb & Harmon
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. . . And no wonder. It was constructed by the same builders of the Empire State Building, and, by the look of things has the same art deco look. It's a mini-me Empire State!
The top of 500 Fifth Avenue gives us a very good idea of the original design for the top of the Empire State. There's a funny story about that, actually. Tell me if you've heard it.
The Chrysler and the Empire State were under construction at roughly the same time, both aspiring to become the tallest building in the world. The distinctive "needle spire" of the Chrysler building was assembled in secret, inside the lower structure of the building, and just prior to completion, it was shot up through the roof, adding the crucial few feet it needed to beat the Empire State's planned height. The distinctive spire atop the Empire State was hastily designed and constructed "in retaliation," in order to secure the world record. It originally had a very attractive shiny little dome design on top . . .
. . . then years later it was made even higher (though less attractive, IMHO) with the addition of broadcast antennae.
I've always thought someone could make a very exciting movie out of these events.
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Those old photos of construction workers sitting on a girder eating lunch do give me the willies. There's another one with a worker catching a nap on a girder. I have to cover my eyes. Nightmare stuff!
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Jan 3, 2021 - 6:44 PM
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Grecchus
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RIP Rory.
I was following this inaugural B737 Max-8 flight from Miami to La Guardia (my fav NYC airport) New York City. The plane performs one of those arcing (very spectacular) approaches to runway 31. I Noticed some new skyscrapers I never knew existed at the Central Park end of Manhattan island. There are several of them and what makes them noticeable is how tall, thin and straight they appear.
The Canary Wharf part of London has the same sort of thing. For years going into the city by train you'd just see the solitary building with the pyramidal top. Now, there's a large cluster of them that rose up in a very, very short time frame.
Still, those NY skyscrapers were a surprise. They, too, must have gone up in an awful hurry.
The plane approaches the city from the south-west and from about 2:25:20 you can see Liberty Island and Governor's Island aft of the wing. You can see the new buildings as the plane flies alongside Manhatten Island, but it performs a right-hand turn and the skyline goes out of view for a while, so that the Empire State pops out of view, however, one of the newbies can be seen in fairly bright white light in front of the leading edge and they are tall. There's a terrific view of the entire Manhatten skyline in profile at the top of the frame as the plane comes in to land at 2:28:31. During the sweep into the airport you also get a great look-down over the 1964 World's Fair buildings, too, in the final steep left-hand turn to line up with R31.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2ozRsq-JzQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2STPr1Taaw8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTRKG_ovjsA
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