The Empire State Building

We were stupid to go on Father's Day. This is not the line to go up. This side of the audio booth is *part* of the line to switch elevators on the 80th floor. The far side of the booth is the line for people waiting for the elevator down.

Looking up from the street.

The art-deco rendition of the building in the lobby.

There are plaques like this throughout the lobby dedicated to the various trades (including a Masonic one). This one was particularly "Metropolis".

Elaine in the lobby. The machine plaque is the one on the left behind her. To the right is "concrete".

A clever self-taken picture of us with the city in the background.

People on the observation deck.

The spire at the top of the building, as seen from the observation deck.

The Flat-Iron building at the confluence of Broadway and 5th Ave. New York's oldest skyscraper at 21 storeys.

All the light leaking up from between these buildings is Times Square.

Macy's Department Store from above.

This is what it is like to look down 86 storeys.

Looking toward downtown.

And last, but not least, the Chrysler building, which was the tallest building in the world until the Empire State Building was built. Today, downtown, I took pictures of some other former "world's tallest buildings", not to mention the hole formerly occupied by two of them.