(WYTV)- Construction of the Empire State Building began on March 17, 1930. It took only one year and 45 days to build the 102-story skyscraper: 1,454 feet. Between 1931 and 1970, the Empire State ...

This glowing tribute was decades in the making. The Empire State Building lit up in celebration of Polish Independence Day on Monday night for the first time, after years of lobbying to green-light ...

The Empire State Building will light up in gold and white colors on Thursday to honor the election of the first American pope. Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, an American missionary from Chicago who ...

New York City’s Woolworth Building, at 792 ft, was the world’s tallest tower in 1929, but two skyscrapers under construction across town were in a dead heat to take the crown. One was 40 Wall Street, ...

Located on Fifth Avenue between 33rd and 34th streets in Manhattan. It is 103 stories tall (1,250 feet to top floor, excluding height of antennae, which is 204 feet). Took only one year and 45 days to ...

In 1945, a B-25 bomber on its way to Newark Airport in New Jersey crashed into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building. Amazingly, the building suffered only minor damage. The Empire State ...

This video explores the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world for 40 years. It covers the building's size, interesting facts, its interior, and the history of its construction.