Contributor Irv Atkins says his father Louis came home from work the Monday after the crash with a piece of twisted metal he says was sitting in his office amid his broken windows.
Even though his office was south of the crash site, and the plane smashed into the north side, the Atkins family has always believed that they had a piece of the B-25 bomber that flew into the Empire State Building.
The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in theMidtown South neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931.
Its name is derived from Empire State, the nickname of the state of New York. The building has a roof height of 1,250 feet (380 m) and stands a total of 1,454 feet (443.2 m) tall, including its antenna.
The Empire State Building was the world’s tallest building until the first tower of the World Trade Center was topped out in 1970; following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was New York City’s tallest building until it was surpassed in 2012 by One World Trade Center.
As of 2022, the building is the seventh-tallest building in New York City, theninth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States, and the 54th-tallest in the world.
The site of the Empire State Building, on the west side of Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets, was developed in 1893 as theWaldorf–Astoria Hotel.
In 1929, Empire State Inc. acquired the site and devised plans for a skyscraper there. The design for the Empire State Building was changed fifteen times until it was ensured to be the world’s tallest building.
Construction started on March 17, 1930, and the building opened thirteen and a half months afterward on May 1, 1931.
Despite favorable publicity related to the building’s construction, because of the Great Depression and World War II, its owners did not make a profit until the early 1950’s.
The contractors were Starrett Brothers and Eken, which were composed of Paul and William A. Starrett and Andrew J. Eken.
The project was financed primarily by Raskob and Pierre du Pont, while James Farley’s General Builders Supply Corporation supplied the building materials.
John W. Bowser was the construction superintendent of the project, and the structural engineer of the building was Homer G. Balcom. The tight completion schedule necessitated the commencement of construction even though the design had yet to be finalized.
On September 15, 1931, a small commercial United States Navy airship circled 25 times in 45-mile-per-hour (72 km/h) winds. The airship then attempted to dock at the mast, but its ballast spilled and the craft was rocked by unpredictable eddies.
The near-disaster scuttled plans to turn the building’s spire into an airship terminal, although one blimp did manage to make a single newspaper delivery afterward.
On July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building, between the 79th and 80th floors.
One engine completely penetrated the building and landed in a neighboring block, while the other engine and part of the landing gear plummeted down an elevator shaft.
Fourteen people were killed in the incident, but the building escaped severe damage and was reopened two days later.
The first steel framework was installed on April 1, 1930. From there, construction proceeded at a rapid pace; during one stretch of 10 working days, the builders erected fourteen floors.
This was made possible through precise coordination of the building’s planning, as well as the mass production of common materials such as windows and spandrels.
On one occasion, when a supplier could not provide timely delivery of dark Hauteville marble, Starrett switched to using Rose Famosa marble from a German quarry that was purchased specifically to provide the project with sufficient marble
The scale of the project was massive, with trucks carrying 16,000 partition tiles, 5,000 bags of cement, 450 cubic yards [340 m3] of sand and 300 bags of lime arriving at the construction site every day.
There were also cafes and concession stands on five of the incomplete floors so workers did not have to descend to the ground level to eat lunch.
Notable tenants
As of 2013, the building housed around 1,000 businesses. Current tenants include:
- Air China
- Boy Scouts of America, Greater New York Councils
- Bulova
- Croatian National Tourist Board
- Expedia Group
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- Global Brands Group
- Filipino Reporter
- Helios and Matheson
- Human Rights Foundation
- Human Rights Watch
- JCDecaux
- Kaplan International Center
- Li & Fung
- Noven Pharmaceuticals
- Palo Alto Networks
- People’s Daily
- Qatar Airways
- RaySearch Laboratories
- Shutterstock
- Skanska
- Turkish Airlines
- Workday, Inc.
- World Monuments Fund
With the controlled demolition of the World Trade Center in the September 11 attacks, the Empire State Building again became the tallest building in New York City, and the second-tallest building in the Americas, surpassed only by the Willis Tower in Chicago.
The Empire State Building remained the tallest building in New York until the new One World Trade Center reached a greater height in April 2012. As of 2022, it is the seventh-tallest building in New York City and the tenth-tallest in the United States.
The Empire State Building is the 49th-tallest in the world as of February 2021. It is also the eleventh-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas behind the tallest U.S. buildings and theCN Tower.
Wikipedia / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Now why didn’t the entire building collapsed here?? Answer > no controlled demolition here!
One engine completely passed through the ES building and landed on the other side of the street. But the Empire State was not turned into rumble.
It was easier to blow up the Twin Towers due to the girder framework being constructed round the elevator shaft in the centre of the building to conform to the open plan system LS .
Open plan in the early 1930,s did not exist.
Spot on Truth 101- way back when it happened to the WTT,s I was in touch with an architect associated with the building in the USA , he pointed out there was no way the buildings could have collapsed vertically unless explosives were attached to the girder framework . The framework was built around the elevator shaft which allowed open plan to be used – the janitor heard loud explosions before the attack but was never called to the investigation . At the same time NY aerial observation was stood down by a telephone call something that never or rarely… Read more »
After searching on the internet for other articles about this event, nothing showed up, showing how the truth is censored by Google, which control the cyber space news articles.
Right KS – Google has now admitted it censors searches – I remember it well but looking through several browsers and search engines now you find large numbers of USA /UK newspapers labeling it as “conspiracy theories “.
It was used to invade Iraq -now that wasn’t a “conspiracy theory ” -millions of civilians killed by US shock & awe tactics.
The Truth is out there but not via Google or its search engine users of the same .
All Jews got a free day off on 9/11, now how was that possible??
They were personally contacted ——-
Do not speak the truth, or else >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>