Meet Me At the Corner - The Empire State Building

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The Empire State Building: See New York City from atop its most famous skyscrapers

Did you know that to build the Empire State Building the job took

sixty thousand tons of steel	ten million bricks	two thousand tons of marble

sixty-five hundred windows	seventy miles of water pipes	eighteen hundred and sixty stairs?

And it was all done in one year and forty-five days?

There are other skyscrapers in New York City. Visit the Skyscraper Museum and learn all about them

The Empire State Building staff has created coloring pages that can be downloaded here.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

SKY BOYS: How They Built the Empire State Building by Deborah Hopkinson

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EMPIRE STATE BUILDING: When New York Reached for the Skies by Elizabeth Mann

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