When The Empire State Building Was New Summary

In the passage “When The Empire State Building Was New” the author discusses the motivation for building such a grand skyscraper the Empire State Building is a very remarkable building.

The Empire State Building was the tallest building in new york. “It stands hundreds of feet taller than the skyscrapers around it which is remarkable because their are tons of other building and it was the tallest. you can also see it from new jersey and long island which are both pretty far away from where the building stands and they are states. It was the tallest building for up to 40 years and that is a log time. And It also has a mooring mast that stands 1,300 feet on top of the building to make it so nobody could make their building taller for a long time.

The Empire State Building needed a lot of equipment. It needed tons of steel,more than 50,000 tons of it this is remarkable because that is a lot of steel used just to frame a building. it also uses a lot of bricks 10 million of them, a average house only uses about 8,000 bricks.

It was built during the great depression “ . . . on March 17 --St. Patrick’s Day --the work on the skyscraper began.” during the great depression many people did not have jobs and were going bankrupt. The building was planned from top to bottom this is a accomplishment because most people did not plan buildings this way. It is the size of a city block “. . . as wide as a city block on the first floor. . .” this is very large if it takes that much space. Many men worked on it “More than 3,000 men are daily at work . . .” that is a very large amount of people. The Empire State Building only took about a year to build this is a very short period of time to build a building especially when it is so large. They also created a railroad system to haul up tons of bricks steel and other supplies because they were up so high they needed a way to bring stuff up so they had to build a