Facts about the Empire State Building
It took 7,000,000 man hours to construct the Empire State building. It took a year and 45 days(including weekends and other holidays) to construct the Empire State building. Its cost including land was $40,948,900. More than 10 million bricks were used to construct the Empire State building. The building itself cost $24,718,000 to build (nearly half the expected cost because of the Great Depression). Its foundation is 55 feet (16.7 meters) below ground. The Empire State building weighs 365,000 tons. The Empire State building has 6500 windows. It has 1860 steps. You can lose ten pounds of weight if u climb all those steps without a pause. Though you dont have to do this exercide because there are 73 elevators in the building and six of them are freight ones. |
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