and this building went up on its site. whether the empire state bank had an office in it, i don t know. whether they sponsored it, i don t know. but it was called the empire state building. now, today, it was originally an office, a loft building. today, it is an apartment house. it does have sort of update relationship to the empire state building. if you think about superlatives, the architects of these buildings of this building was and they were influenced by the columbian exposition in chicago. their two most famous buildings were on 6th avenue. they designed the cooper department store which was the world s largest department store. it was in 1896. they also designed the department store on 34th street of herald square, macy s. they sort of belong in the same league with sugarland and harlem. it was them who designed this building and obviously, this is the real empire state building. its massing is so satisfying. despite the fact that it is an enormous building. it
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