@@ashm4688 Yes you said would as well. I know. But your comment was pretty irrelevant because in the example of the commenter he was already there. It's just a bit weird to point out that a "what if" Szenario isn't possible.
“Unless your Taylor swift or myself, the 103rd floor is closed off to the public cause we ain’t got the dough to live fun and awesome lives.” That’s pretty much what I heard
The real reason is that it's a huge public safety liability and a lawsuit waiting to happen. Like anyone who wants to go to the top of any roof on most buildings needs the owners or leaders permission to go up there. (I've only been on the roof of my own condo building ONCE when I was there as part of the strata.) You don't necessarily need money to do cool things during your life though. You just need to be clever and very crafty with your money. Like lots of people spend their lives touring the world by making money blogging and/or making videos about their adventures. Lots of people take holidays by WOOFing which is basically taking a vacation at a farm somewhere else in the world with free room and board in exchange for doing 1 to 3 hours per day of farm labour while they're at the farm. This could possibly be a farm like anywhere (Europe, South America, Asia, Africa etc) including ones close to cool tourist destinations. Alot of monasteries run by monks or nuns in Europe rent out rooms in the monasteries as sort of cheap hotels. That's a good way to tour parts of Europe for cheap. Alot of people take cheap trips across countries by bicycling across those countries while camping along the way. Alot of people live in hostels and go backpacking across Europe while they carry their laptops wig them and work remotely as like computer programmers or digital artists or whatnot. (Alot of hostels have Wi-Fi now. Also there are starbucks stores with Wi-Fi access in them across the world now.) Alot of people buy houseboats or motorhomes and travel around after they retire. (Alot of those people do seasonal labour in many places in order to supplement their income.) Alot of people get jobs teaching English in foreign countries in order to be able to visit and explore those countries. Some people travel across America or Canada using cheap ultralight planes. A lot of big cities have lots of cheap or free events and things to do as well as cheap motels, so if someone knows what they're doing they can visit alot of cities and do alot of neat stuff without going bankrupt. I'm sure there are other ways to have adventures even if you don't have alot of money. You just got to be creative.
The 103rd floor of the Empire State Building is the scariest thing he's done in his life. Meanwhile, Tom Cruise just casually sits at the top of the Burj Khalifa like he's in his living room.
It was only tried once in 1931 and lasted 3 minutes. The concept was abandoned as it was unsafe. The winds from the building and the lack of a mooring at the aft end of the airship made safe docking unsafe.
People were tougher back then days haha 😂 However what actually surprises me is how narrow the staircase is like and the whole structure is pretty small. If you ever flied an airliner that used stairs and bus for unloading the passengers instead of gate-direct tunnel you would knew how long and tiring the process may become. Now imagine a big ass airship getting unloaded though that tiny stair. Then imagine lines at the elevators to get down. Though NYC had a helicopter service that could take you from the airport to the Manhattan midtown, on roof of the MetLife building. I still believe that that service should've used to this day.
It was never going to be used for airship loading. The Chrysler building and the Empire State were competing to see who would be taller. The 'airship dock' was just a publicity stunt to justify the tower. It was later used as an antenna system, lightning rods, ĺwand the 103rd floor was called the radio room. It was used as access to the antenna. My dad occasionally worked up there!
@@HbCAMM_CT That's because you don't know what airship is. It's 99% gas balloon, so even the biggest airship transfers less than 100 passengers. So there is no waiting lines, because not enough people
When I see the view from these skyscrapers, it makes me really admire the men who built these buildings, especially The Emire State Building. It was built in 1930-31 when safety was not a concern of the companies these men worked for.
But the guy in the video was making the video so it didn't exist yet, and therefore couldn't have been shared yet. By which I can only surmise he is Taylor Swift.
I've always known it was there. On the 102nd floor level, there are stairs going up to the 103rd floor level, but they had a door hatch, which would always be closed. It didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out there was another level above the 102nd floor. The view looks absolutely amazing from up there.
@@zaystillits closed. And better be that way. Otherwise hordes of tiktockers would be challenging eachother. And the tourists would tremble the floor. The balcony is unsafe for regular visitors.
If anyone's visiting NY soon, here's a good photo op of the Empire state to take. 29TH ST between 5TH ave and Broadway, there's a parking lot there. You're welcome, and enjoy.
This is a similar view to the one you could have gotten at the twin towers. One world trade center had a restaurant Windows On The World, a bar called The Greatest Bar On Earth, and a smaller restaurant called Wild Blue on the 107th floor. Two World Trade Center had an observation deck on floor 107 and for when the weather was nice there was an outdoor observation deck on the roof, above floor 110
*Empire State Building Observatory heights.* The 86th-floor observatory is about 1,050 feet (320 meters) above ground level. The 102nd-floor observatory is about 1,220 feet (372 meters) above ground level. The 103rd floor is an outdoor observation deck located on the very top of the building and is about 1,235 feet (376 meters) above ground level. The pinnacle top of the Empire State Building "roof" if you want to call it, is 1,250 feet. (381 meters) The Sears Tower (Willis Tower) in Chicago also has a 103rd-floor observatory that is in fact open to the public, unlike the Empire State Building. However, the Sears Tower 103rd-floor observatory is the highest observatory found in any building in America at 1,353 feet high. (412 meters) 😉
Me and my family visited NYC in 2005 or 2006, one day we went to the Empire State Building, in an elevator inside the building my dad got talking to a man and mentioned that it was my birthday, the man said instead of bringing us to the 86th floor he would bring us to the 102nd floor which at the time not many people got to go up to, it was very cool, I have not been to NYC since but I will make it back there, I'm excited to see what has changed since I was a young lad, best wishes from Ivan in Ireland
Likely intentional, a common trick is to insert a dumb error like that, in order to drive "engagement" via comments calling it out. The Algorithm likes engagement. It's one of the grosser examples of how the actual "content" literally doesn't matter, it's all about pleasing The Algorithm for $$$. Idiocracy was a prescient documentary.
That was for passengers to load and unload from the airships. They tried it once, but it was considered too dangerous due to the high winds. So it's just closed full stop. (Save for maintenance, and anyone with a Black Card.)
Fun fact: That picture of an airship using the mooring station is fake. The "mooring mast" was made in an attempt to one up the developers of the Chrysler building, in order to make the Empire State building to official tallest building in the world. When the structure was added it was said that the Empire State building couldn't be the tallest because the mast wasn't a functional part of the building, which is when that photo was made and spread through the media at the day. No one bothered to fact check, and the Empire State building got that title of "Tallest in the world", at least for it's day.
Randomly this video appeared on my feed.about 13 years ago I had to be on that balcony to snake two storm drains.I knew how high up I was but visually couldn’t see anything due to the fog,which was a blessing because heights are not my friend.me and my apprentice at the time were crawling the all time and worked as fast as possible because that day was very windy and we were shitting our pants😅.
It was scale buildup.there is no debris at that height coming in.those pipes are xh cast and when they don’t see much water they start to dry up and scale builds up in the ptrap eventually clogging it.
I took a picture of the city from my hotel room and I quickly closed the floor to ceiling drapes back. Even planted safely on the floor and it not open still made me a little anxious. But it is the highest up I’ve ever stayed.
my great great grandfather I belive was the lead Mason of the empire state building. He stood a towering 6'7 and was the man with his arms outstretched on the top when it was completed. Shortly after that, he fell off of a bridge into wet concrete.
103 was only for the captain and the crew. But if you think that's fun try floor 105 nowadays they call it the lightning rod strange considering it has a 6-inch interior diameter and 8-inch exterior diameter and a 12-volt flange to hold the ball on the top because it used to be a fuel Exchange/ morning Pointe.
Me, obviously, I wouldn't wanna be up there. It's the easiest way of losing your phone, like supposedly you wanna take photos of how high this tower is, and you suddenly *_DROP YOUR PHONE._* Game Over if anything happens... 😱😭
BACK IN 1983 I WENT TO THE BUILDING. WHEN I WAS A YOUNG BOY AND SAW KING KONG I PROMISED MYSELF I WOULD GO TO THE TOP. I WENT UP TO THE 102 FLOOR, SAW A STAIR AND CLIMBED IT UP INTO THE DOME AND LOOKED OUT THE 4 OR 5 LITTLE CIRCLE WINDOWS IMAGING KONG WAS RIGHT ABOVE ME, WHAT A THRILL TO FULFILL A CHILDHOOD DREAM.
Him: "You can only see it by sharing this video and following for more." Me: I mean technically you can help *other* people see it by sharing and following. So I'm doing charity work :)
There is a French phrase 'L' appel du vide' (sp) meaning The call of the Void, which is the strange desire or need to jump when faced with this kind of thing. I get it all the time when I'm at heights and I have to be very careful that I don't just leap over the edge.
This gave me vertigo. I'm scared of heights and frequently have nightmares about being on tall buildings . . . Yet enjoy roller coasters, bungee jumping, and skydiving.🤷
I was a Chinook aircrew man and looked out at 10,000 feet and that wasn’t as scary looking as looking out from the 103rd floor of the Empire State Building.
remind to clarify if this is were my DAD took us to see the MACY'S fireworks one year, he had press passes at that time....the good old days, Bless his Heart 🎟
Thanks for posting about my project with Feature Walters. The challanges of this project were to say the least large in scale. Thanks to the great crew of Iron workers and hands on skills of my team we pulled off this amazing work.
I've been to the 102nd floor. They said there's a ladder going up higher but that's it's closed off to the public. But I didn't know it opened to a small balcony like this! I'd love to go out there! I'd even pay another $75 to go up again if they'd let me.
The view in person must be insane. There's so much history in that city I could sit there n overlook for hours n just wonder what it must have been like
Getting off of an airship at the top of a skyscraper is the future and you can’t convince me otherwise, flying bus unaffected by street traffic with amazing fuel efficiency? Literally perfect for skyscrapers
Yes, I’ve been to the Empire State building and been up to the secret balcony. I was absolutely terrified and thought they should not build buildings this high. I was so happy to be back on the ground when the elevator let me out🙏
Even the best part of 90+ years after it was built, the Empire State Building remains one of the most iconic skyscrapers, even more so than most that dwarf it.
