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Empire Building (Manhattan)

  • ... that to demonstrate elevator safety in New York City's Empire Building, an elevator cab with eggs and light bulbs was dropped past the third floor at 82 miles per hour (132 km/h), emerging undamaged? Source: Carpentry and Building p. 217
    • ALT1:... that in 2011, the Empire Building in Lower Manhattan became a tourist hot spot when Dominique Strauss-Kahn was placed under house arrest there? Source: NBC New York
    • ALT2:... that the 1919 sale of the Empire Building to U.S. Steel, at the time one of New York City's largest sales of private property, established the city as "the steel centre of the world"? Source: NY Times 1919, Real Estate Record 1919

Improved to Good Article status by Epicgenius (talk). Self-nominated at 17:53, 14 July 2020 (UTC).