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Address of Empire State Building:
350 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10118.
Between 33rd and 34th Streets, and between Fifth
Avenue and Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue).
Geographic location:
40 degrees 44' north longitude.
73 degrees 59' west latitude.
Height of building:
1,050 feet to 86th floor observation deck.
1,250 feet to [V 003 / 102nd floor observation deck].
1,454 feet (1,453 feet, 8 9/16 inches) to top of
lighting rod on TV tower.
Height of lobby above sea level:
47 feet.
Weight of building:
365,000 tons; 730,000,000 pounds.
14 tons per occupant.
Steel frame:
57,000 tons.
Volume:
37 million cubic feet.
Basement:
35 feet deep.
Rentable space:
2,248,369 square feet.
Occupancy (1991):
98 percent.
Staff:
250, including 150 maintenance personnel.
Visitors:
2 to 2.5 million each year.
Up to 30,000 on a weekend day.
Total of over 75,000,000 since 1931.
More visitors than Sears Tower or World Trade Center.
Dimensions of the site:
East to west, 424 feet.
North to south, 187 feet.
Area of the site:
79,288 square feet, or about two acres.
Building covers all of the site up to the sidewalk line.
Cost:
Construction: $24,718,000.
Land: $16,230,900.
Total: $40,948,900.
Original budget: $60,000,000.
Construction time:
One year and 45 days including Sundays and holidays
(ahead of schedule).
Maximum number of workers during construction:
1,900 men on payroll of Starrett Brothers and Eken
(contractors).
1,500 on payroll of 67 subcontractors.
Demolition of Waldorf-Astoria hotel:
Truckloads of debris carted away during excavation:
16,000.
Number of workers needed to raze building: 700.
Depth of foundation:
55 feet.
Number of footings extending down to bedrock:
210.
Number of man-hours invested in construction:
7,000,000.
Length of temporary water piping installed during construction:
10 miles.
Number of men killed during construction:
14.
Exterior materials:
200,000 cubic feet of Indiana limestone and granite.
10,000,000 bricks.
730 tons of aluminum and stainless steel.
Lobby materials:
10,000 square feet of Rose Famosa and Estrallante
marble. 300,000 square feet of Hauteville and Rocheron
marble for elevator lobbies and corridors on the office
floors.
Number of windows:
6,500.
Interior arches:
Area: 3,000,000 square feet.
Cubic yards of anthracite cinder concrete: 62,000.
Reinforcing mesh: 3,000,000 feet.
Elevators:
Number: 73, including six freight elevators.
Total length of elevator shafts: 7 miles.
Speed: 600-1,200 feet a minute.
Speed from the lobby to the 80th floor: 60 seconds.
Maximum number of passengers at a given time: 1,390.
Steps:
To 86th floor: 1,575.
To 102nd floor: 1,860.
Exterior lighting:
Number of 75-watt fluorescent tubes in tower: 1,100.
Number of high-pressure sodium vapor lights on 103rd
floor: 32.
Heat:
Steam, delivered through 50 miles of radiator pipe to
6,700 radiators.
Air conditioning:
7,450 tons of refrigeration equipment.
Complete change of air six times an hour.
Ventillating shaft capable of pulling one million cubic
feet of air into the building every minute.
Water:
70 miles of pipe provide water.
Tanks at various floor levels with the uppermost at the
101st floor.
Average daily water demand: 26,500 cubic feet.
Electricity:
2,500,000 feet of electrical wire.
40 million kilowatt hours used by building and tenants
each year.
Telephone cable:
1,060 miles.
Fire safety:
400 fire hose connections throughout the building,
attached to a special water system.
Waste:
100 tons of trash and waste per month.
Maximum sway of building in high winds:
Half-an-inch.