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To the east of the Empire State Building is Murray Hill, a neighborhood with a mix of residential, commercial, and entertainment activity. The areas surrounding the Empire State Building are home to other major points of interest, including Macy's at Herald Square on Sixth Avenue and 34th Street, and Koreatown on 32nd Street between Madison and Sixth Avenues.

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Although physically located in South Midtown, a mixed residential and commercial area, the building is so large that it was assigned its own ZIP Code, 10118 as of 2012, it is one of 43 buildings in New York City that have their own ZIP codes. Visitors to the observatories use an entrance at 20 West 34th Street prior to August 2018, visitors entered through the Fifth Avenue lobby. Tenants enter the building through the Art Deco lobby located at 350 Fifth Avenue. The Empire State Building is located on the west side of Fifth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, between 33rd Street to the south and 34th Street to the north. Additionally, the Empire State Building and its ground-floor interior were designated city landmarks by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1980, and were added to the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark in 1986. It was ranked first on the American Institute of Architects' List of America's Favorite Architecture in 2007. A symbol of New York City, the building has been named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. The building's size has become the global standard of reference to describe the height and length of other structures.

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The Empire State Building is an international cultural icon: it has been featured in more than 250 television series and films since the film King Kong was released in 1933. Around four million tourists from around the world annually visit the building's 86th- and 102nd-floor observatories an additional indoor observatory on the 80th floor opened in 2019. The building's Art Deco architecture, height, and observation decks have made it a popular attraction. Despite favorable publicity related to the building's construction, because of the Great Depression and World War II, its owners did not make a profit until the early 1950s. Construction started on March 17, 1930, and the building opened thirteen and a half months afterward on May 1, 1931. The design for the Empire State Building was changed fifteen times until it was ensured to be the world's tallest building. acquired the site and devised plans for a skyscraper there. The site of the Empire State Building, in Midtown South on the west side of Fifth Avenue between West 33rd and 34th Streets, was developed in 1893 as the Waldorf–Astoria Hotel. As of 2022, the building is the seventh-tallest building in New York City, the ninth-tallest completed skyscraper in the United States, the 54th-tallest in the world, and the sixth-tallest freestanding structure in the Americas. The Empire State Building was the world's tallest building until the first tower of the World Trade Center was topped out in 1970 following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the Empire State Building was New York City's tallest building until it was surpassed in 2012 by One World Trade Center. The building has a roof height of 1,250 feet (380 m) and stands a total of 1,454 feet (443.2 m) tall, including its antenna. Its name is derived from ' Empire State', the nickname of the state of New York. The building was designed by Shreve, Lamb & Harmon and built from 1930 to 1931.

The Empire State Building is a 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015.