I'm pretty sure I thought that at least half a dozen times on this trip!
The awful thing was, in that moment I wasn't tired, I was genuinely confused (I did the same thing that same night and the next day when we saw the Chrystler bldg) - I had to come home and look up which buidling was which! *MASSIVE FAIL*
It's an amazing place, I hope you get to go! My favorite memories of the city over the past ten years are the two times I was pretty much by myself - it took me a while to fall in love with it, but that's another story.
Some of the views in nyc are pretty amazing. My fave is the skyline of the city at dusk when the sky is that mauve/orange color.
The Empire state building is on 34th street and the Chrysler building is on 42nd street. So, if you were on 39th street, it really could have been either building. Maybe you could still have that career as a nyc tour guide. ~_^
Many years ago, when I worked in Manhattan, I worked on 33rd and Park Avenue. Which is right around the corner from the empire state building and I've never been to the top.
Some of the views in nyc are pretty amazing. My fave is the skyline of the city at dusk when the sky is that mauve/orange color.
The last time I was in NYC (7-10 yrs ago?), I was walking across the Brooklyn Bridge by myself for the first time, just to say I had, and the sky was begining to set to my right; it painted the bricks of the bridge and the Statue of liberty with the most amazing rose-gold light set against a brilliant robins egg blue, then turned into that mauve/orange color as you say. I think that is my all-time favorite memory of NYC.
The Empire state building is on 34th street and the Chrysler building is on 42nd street. So, if you were on 39th street, it really could have been either building. Maybe you could still have that career as a nyc tour guide. ~_^*LMAO
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We saw the Chrystler bldg that same evening lit up with the same white-lavender lights at the ESB, which is when I really got confused - "No, maybe that's the Empire State Bldg? One or the other, I'll have to look it up." I think I assume the Chrystler is the Empire because it's - showier? More obviously "art deco" at the top. From what I understand, in 60s or 70s the empire state building added flood lights to the top of the building and the Chrysler building wanting to keep up with the "Joneses" decided to add lights also. When the Chrysler building people started to make plans to add lights, they discovered that the original building plans had already made accommodations for adding lights inside the tower. So I guess that's why the CB lights are more showier and more art deco looking.
Actually I was referering to the 'arches' at the top of the building with the "spokes" that radiate outward - which look like something out of a Busby Berkley stage show set, or from Fritz Lang's "Metropolis"; not the lights themselves. That's what makes the CB look more art deco (and therefore "dated") to me, even during the daytime; the ESB is a bit more "timeless" in comparison because of that, at least from the view most of us see it at. But thank you for the info!
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I'm pretty sure I thought that at least half a dozen times on this trip!
The awful thing was, in that moment I wasn't tired, I was genuinely confused (I did the same thing that same night and the next day when we saw the Chrystler bldg) - I had to come home and look up which buidling was which! *MASSIVE FAIL*
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The Empire state building is on 34th street and the Chrysler building is on 42nd street. So, if you were on 39th street, it really could have been either building. Maybe you could still have that career as a nyc tour guide. ~_^
Many years ago, when I worked in Manhattan, I worked on 33rd and Park Avenue. Which is right around the corner from the empire state building and I've never been to the top.
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The last time I was in NYC (7-10 yrs ago?), I was walking across the Brooklyn Bridge by myself for the first time, just to say I had, and the sky was begining to set to my right; it painted the bricks of the bridge and the Statue of liberty with the most amazing rose-gold light set against a brilliant robins egg blue, then turned into that mauve/orange color as you say. I think that is my all-time favorite memory of NYC.
The Empire state building is on 34th street and the Chrysler building is on 42nd street. So, if you were on 39th street, it really could have been either building. Maybe you could still have that career as a nyc tour guide. ~_^*LMAO ( ... )
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And hey, this conversation made me find this nifty website with historic photos of the buildings so score!
http://www.nyc-architecture.com/TEN/TEN-NY.htm
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