I love "Dodgers sidestep". Very clever.
Thank you for bringing up Roy G. Biv -- I just had an elementary school flashback!
"finished in less than a year..."
It's always amazed me that this was the case. And that buildings today, and repairs to roads and bridges, take forever. Perhaps a speedy pace is sometimes in our favor, but the depression and a lack of jobs was a great impetus as well.
The building is one of the great glories of our city, and I love the lights too. "Alas" they can't generate a hologram of King Kong next to the antenna...
It's always amazed me that this was the case. And that buildings today, and repairs to roads and bridges, take forever. Perhaps a speedy pace is sometimes in our favor, but the depression and a lack of jobs was a great impetus as well.
The building is one of the great glories of our city, and I love the lights too. "Alas" they can't generate a hologram of King Kong next to the antenna...
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No mention of constriction accidents and deaths during that year...
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Official records state that there were only five deaths.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_State_Building
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The building was built with private funds. Roads and bridges are built and maintained with public funds and scrutiny of government bureaucracy.
Don't underestimate the power of the profit motive.
Don't underestimate the power of the profit motive.
Dodgers ding Mets
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"(Alas, we can’t suggest that you propose lighting the building in honor of your birthday. That’s against policy.)"
it is always a good day when I can read someone using "Alas" in their writings. "Alas, poor Romeo" he is already dead!" I'm not sure why the word brings a smile, but it always does.
it is always a good day when I can read someone using "Alas" in their writings. "Alas, poor Romeo" he is already dead!" I'm not sure why the word brings a smile, but it always does.
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"Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio." is probably more famous.
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“Over the past year, it has synced lights with music, sported pinstripes, gone rainbow and sparkled.”
Worried that we may possibly be heading towards taking a few steps back politically since that symbolic rainbow-lit night.
Tune of Over the Rainbow (an Empire State Building take)
Some stare up at that rainbow, oh so high
There’s a symbol that lights a hope as it lights the sky
Can’t get over that rainbow, is it true?
But it seems like some childhood dreams really did come through
The images of rainbow lights
That flickered in the highest heights - remind us
How Democrats and G.O.P.
Can put that inequality - so far behind us
Can’t get over that rainbow, to this day
If New York feels that rainbow
Why then, oh why can’t they?
Worried that we may possibly be heading towards taking a few steps back politically since that symbolic rainbow-lit night.
Tune of Over the Rainbow (an Empire State Building take)
Some stare up at that rainbow, oh so high
There’s a symbol that lights a hope as it lights the sky
Can’t get over that rainbow, is it true?
But it seems like some childhood dreams really did come through
The images of rainbow lights
That flickered in the highest heights - remind us
How Democrats and G.O.P.
Can put that inequality - so far behind us
Can’t get over that rainbow, to this day
If New York feels that rainbow
Why then, oh why can’t they?
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And when it was finished, nobody put their name on it.
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Oh, right, Max. What a lovely point you're making.
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There are many of us who are descendants of the Dutch and Huguenot settlers and it seems we've been forgotten despite our ancestors arriving nearly 400 years ago. My old street Stanhope Street in the Wyckoff section of Bushwick in Brooklyn was changed from the name of an old Huguenot family among may others.
If it does get lighted what date is being used?