The Empire State Building in New York has increased security personnel by 25% and added baggage-scanning machines at its five entrances to the tune of several million dollars.
As Adam Levitin of Georgetown University Law Centre and Susan Wachter of the University of Pennsylvania pointed out in a recent paper on the causes of the housing bubble in America, it is impossible to borrow the Empire State Building in order to sell New York real estate short.
It hasn't been just new projects that are making headlines: In November, even the Empire State Building got a makeover, when the owners installed a new LED light system whose millions of colors can ripple, cross-fade, strobe and burst in time to the tunes of Alicia Keys or a special New Year's show.
New York's Empire State Building has increased security personnel by 25% and added scanning machines at all five entrances, to the tune of several million dollars.
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The mill was built around an iron frame in a technique adapted in the rebuilding of Chicago in the late 19th Century and for skyscrapers such as New York's Empire State Building.
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The Helmsleys' real estate empire in New York at one time included the Empire State Building, the Helmsley Palace hotel, the Helmsley Building at the foot of Park Avenue and the Tudor City apartment complex in addition to several other hotel properties.
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New England looms in less than two weeks, and the Empire State Building is headed to Brooks Brothers to pick out a crisp blue suit.
Aereo streams broadcast TV signals of New York stations to local residents by capturing broadcast signals from the Empire State Building with thousands of small antennas at a site in Brooklyn, and then allowing each subscriber to download the content from an individual antenna.
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