Another colleague who watched in horror on September 11, as the first hijacked plane swerved around the Empire State Building at 8:40 a.m. to fly straight down to the Twin Towers, feels safe in ...

Another colleague who watched in horror on September 11, as the first hijacked plane swerved around the Empire State Building at 8:40 a.m. to fly straight down to the Twin Towers, feels safe in ...

But by 2006 the Empire State Building was part of a money-losing package of buildings of steadily declining value and appeal that simply could not compete with the sleek new towers.

In 1945, a military plane accidentally crashed into the Empire State Building. There were 14 casualties and $1 million in damage, but the 1,250-foot-tall structure stayed upright.

A man jumped to his death from the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building, New York City police said on Saturday.

While a new project will rise on the site of ground zero, the Twin Towers' legacy survives throughout metropolitan New York. Policy. Management. ... Like the Empire State Building before it, ...

— March 17, 1930: Construction of the building on Fifth Avenue and 34th Street begins. — May 1, 1931: President Hoover presses a button in Washington to turn on the lights as the 102-story ...

Nik Wallenda Wants to Tightrope Walk From the Chrysler Building to the Empire State Building. By Dan Amira. June 24, ... It would also be about twenty times the distance between the Twin Towers, ...