Empire State Building
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The movie monster King Kong climbed this building.
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From the Empire State Building to One World Trade Center, skyscrapers have been lighting up the city's skyline orange and blue - the Knicks' team colours.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026
Using a chart titled "Our Pool is Bigger than Skyscrapers," Trump compared the scale of the pool with the height of three famous buildings, including New York's Empire State Building.
From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026
The Cube – a massive structure of flats and offices that could have contained the Empire State Building 20 times over – has been jettisoned entirely.
From BBC • May 25, 2026
Tech companies are desperate to plug in their AI data centers, each of which can use 50 to 100 times as much power as the Empire State Building to run and cool their servers.
From Barron's • Feb. 25, 2026
I’d like to say I drove the enemy away from the Empire State Building.
From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan
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