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The Empire State Building Opened During the Great Depression. Its Survival Story Holds a Lesson for Today


The Empire State Building Opened During the Great Depression. Its Survival Story Holds a Lesson for Today
Time
4/30/2021
Olivia B. Waxman
© Irving Browning The New York Historical Society/Getty Images
Tourists at Bryant Park looking through a telescope toward American Radiator Building and the Empire State Building, New York City, circa 1930s.
On May 1, 1931, an “awestruck” Franklin D. Roosevelt, then Governor of New York, spoke at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for what was then the world’s tallest building, the Empire State Building.
The new skyscraper, he said, was a symbol of “vision and faith”: vision, because only those who looked to the future could have imagined such a project, and faith, in believing the work would be “fully justified in the days to come.” ....

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