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New York City Home to one of the most iconic skylines in the world, With three of the world’s ten most visited attractions— New York City sits at the point where the Hudson River Times Square, Central Park and Grand Central Station— meets the Atlantic Ocean.
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One World Trade Center As the main building of the World Trade Center complex, The enclosed One World Observatory allows visitors the new One World Trade Center tower stands as both a a spectacular view of the surrounding city from 1,250 ft. shining beacon for the downtown business district and a (381 m) above street level.
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The Statue of Liberty Standing on Liberty Island at the entrance to New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty was a welcoming signal to millions of immigrants and a symbol of freedom and democracy in the United States. Designed by the French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and given as a gift to the United States from the people of France, the robed female figure represents the Roman goddess Libertas.
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Flatiron Building Although never the tallest building in New York, or even the first building in the United States with a triangular ground plan, the Flatiron Building remains one of New York’s most memorable structures. Sitting on the intersection where Fifth Avenue and Broadway cross, the Flatiron’s famous form was dictated by the shape of the plot of leftover land that lay undeveloped as the city raced northward during...
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Chrysler Building ™ At 1,046 ft. (319 m) the Chrysler Building was the world’s Declared a US National Historic Landmark in 1976, the tallest building for 11 months before being surpassed by Chrysler Building is consistently rated one of the finest the Empire State Building in 1931.
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Empire State Building Located in Midtown Manhattan on Fifth Avenue between an American cultural icon, the Empire State Building was West 33rd and West 34th streets, the 1,454 ft. (443 m) hailed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World tall skyscraper was the world’s tallest building when it by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1994.
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Maintained by the National Park Service since 1933, the Statue of Liberty is visited by around 4 million people every year.
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There are 6,514 windows in the Empire State Building.
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The Empire State Building has a lightning rod near the top which is struck by lightning around 23 times every year.
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The entire crown of the Chrysler Building is clad in stainless steel...
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“I found myself agape, admiring a sky-scraper... plowing up through the traffic of Broadway and Fifth Avenue in the afternoon light.” H.G Wells...
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One World Trade Center contains 54 high-speed destination dispatch passenger elevators.
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Europe, the Middle East and Asia. This connection was confirmed in the early 1960s with the launch of the LEGO ‘Scale Model’ line. It matched The introduction of our LEGO Architecture Studio set the spirit of the age where modern architects were echoes the ambitions of the earlier LEGO ‘Scale Model’...
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