Empire State Building

The Empire State Building is a historic place. It's not just a tall building, but it was the tallest building in the world for over forty years. And it's a fairly massive building, not slender like the also-tall Chrysler Building. It's kind of on the southern edge of the tall buildings of midtown Manhattan, so it's very visible from south of there, and we saw it a lot as we were walking up from the Brooklyn Bridge on Friday.

We came within a few blocks, but didn't have the time to visit. That was first on my list for saturday.

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That's the fence around the observation deck at the top of the stonework. I think there's another observation deck behind the windows on the round part much higher up.

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