Empire State Building

In the middle of Manhattan stands a monument of technological achievement, the Empire State Building, once again the closest thing to heaven in New York City. It has attained mythical status. Legends of many kinds have been told -- how Henry Ford, learning of the immense excavations required to build it, thought it might have a disastrous effect upon the rotation of the earth (he was wrong), or how a delivery man climbed thirty-one floors with sandwishes for businessmen during the elevator strike (he was tipped $75).
Everybody has gone up to the top of the Empire State Building, every visiting film star, everybody's aunt, every serviceman on leave, every child on a school outing. The ride on the vibratory elevators, as they shoot upwards in the longest Uninterrupted Elevator Ride Above The Earth's Surface, offers one of the best-loved of all the city's activities