Iconic NYC

The romanticized and inspirational Empire State Building in New York was. Statistically, it boasts a very definitive set of facts that give it a unique architectural prominence. Consider that it was designed in only two weeks, and built to stand as the tallest building in the world at 1554 feet tall in only about fifteen months. Pictured here, it stands with another New York City icon, the Prometheus statue at Rockefeller Center in Midtown Manhattan.