Utterly interesting

When people think of the Empire State Building, they picture a towering, steel-framed icon slicing into the Manhattan skyline. But behind its 102-storey silhouette lies a story just as awe-inspiring—one not made of glass or stone, but of grit, courage, and camaraderie. For all the attention paid to its architecture and engineering, it’s the men who built the Empire State Building—often without harnesses, walking steel beams hundreds of feet in the air—who brought this colossu