I was there in a marvelous sunny and windy day and got the possibility to take some good photos with good visibility.
Excavation of this New York famous site began on January 22, 1930, and construction on the building itself started symbolically on St.Patrick’s Day.
The project involved 3,400 workers, mostly immigrants arrived in New York from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. According to official accounts, five workers died during the construction.
The construction was part of an intense competition in New York for the title of “world’s tallest building”. Two other projects in New York fighting for the title, 40th Wall Street and the Chrysler Building, were still under construction when work began on the Empire State Building.
Empire State Building surpassed them upon its completion, just 410 days after construction commenced.

The New York building’s opening… Continue reading →

I can not believe that I’m another time in New York, my first journey was in 1991 for a couple of weeks, now is 2010. Many things have happened since then, nineteen years are already gone. Probably the truth is that I can not believe or accept that this time passed.
During my main travel in Boston and New England, I definitely could not miss a short trip of three days in New York.
I got the opportunity to refresh my mind, to enjoy the journey in New York with my Asian girlfriend, spend a nice week end and visit ground zero: the symbol of this sad new era and new world that we are living daily.
Walking along Madison Avenue I obviously discovered that the old Irish Pub which gave to me and my friend some good Guinness beer nineteen years ago was gone, some small mobile phone… Continue reading →