the.com/empire state building

means A 102-story Art Deco skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan, built as an office tower that became the city's defining icon and, for a while, the tallest building on Earth.

from Its name borrows New York's own nickname, 'the Empire State,' a moniker that traces back to the 1700s and is often linked (not certainly) to admiring remarks about the state's wealth and strategic promise, possibly even attributed to George Washington. The building itself rose in the early 1930s at startling speed — reportedly about a story every few days — financed partly as a point of civic pride and corporate one-upmanship during the race to build the world's tallest tower. That it opened just as the Great Depression gutted demand for office space is the quiet irony behind the essence: a monument to ambition finished just as the economy that birthed it collapsed.