Parting Shot: Light it Up
The Empire State Building was lit up in tie dye colors to celebrate a Grateful Dead exhibition opening at the New York Historical Society next year.
Photo by Mudpig
Four men were arrested for allegedly plotting to bomb a synagogue in the Bronx and shooting down military planes at the New York Air National Guard Base at Stewart Airport in Newburgh, New York. The FBI, with the help of an “informant” apprehended them after providing the amateur terrorists with inert explosives” and “inactive” Stinger surface-to-air guided missiles. Unlike the suggestion of the photo on the FBI website, the Empire State Building was never in jeopardy. No reason to start bringing your executive parachutes to work again.
Today, former President Bill Clinton is appearing alongside Mayor Mike Bloomberg at a news conference touting the Empire State Building’s new $20 million green initiatives “which will reportedly include replacing windows and giving tenants web-based systems for managing their energy usage.” How about dimming the lights at night? |Grist|
Unless you’re participating in the Empire State Building’s “Annual Run Up” race this Tuesday, it’s advisable to avoid the iconic landmark at all costs. Between the hours of 9-11AM, hundreds of runners will take to the lobby as they race up 1,576 steps to the Observation deck on the 86th floor. Managers are asking tenants on the ground floor to lock their doors, warning that this “event will cause the corridor to become quite congested” and access will only be available at the 34th St. entrances. Great, so now where are the delivery guys supposed to wait? Full warning after the jump.
Beginning on Monday Friday, all food deliveries from outside the Empire State Building will have to be made in the lobby near the 33rd Street alcove. A designated “Food Delivery Area” has been established and the delivery workers will now be forced to wait downstairs. The new set of guidelines, emailed by management, mandates that “The delivery person should carry a cell phone.” See the full, movement restricting email after the jump.
So as you may have heard the Empire State Building is lighting up in honor of the Olympics. The illumination began last week and every night until August 24th, the landmark skyscraper will use its massive multicolored lighting scheme to showcase the many flag colors for each of the nations taking part in the games including Georgia—assuming its still around—on the building’s respective sides. So far, countries like France, India, Russia, Poland, and Japan have all had their shine and there’s still another 48 to go. With the city’s melting pot status and to make it easy for foreign nationals and ethnic New Yorkers who identify strongly with their homelands, ANIMAL put together a handy visual guide of flag groupings based on their schedule after the jump.
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