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The Empire State Building is a skyscraper of the city of New York, situated on the island of Manhattan, on the Fifth Avenue. Built in 1930, at the beginning of the Great Depression, it became the highest skyscraper of the world and him will stay until 1967.
In the early 19th century, New York Had not skyscraper, many pieces of waste ground, shanties and shanty towns. In the location of the Empire State Building was a farm. Shewas sold to the family Astor, which demolishes herto build a hotel in 1893. This company intended to build a skyscraper.
The workers worked suspended over the space. It was a highly risked work: the slightest false move pulled a mortal fall. However, because of the stock market crash of 1929, America was in full depression, and there was a big poverty. The workforce was thus easy to find: people needed jobs, even badly paid and in extremely dangerous working conditions. It is the president of the United States, Herbert Hoover that activated the lighting of the building. The works had lasted 410 days.
His height is 380 m, or 448 m with its antenna.
