Curiosities:

-Over the years, more than 30 people have attempted suicide, most successfully, by jumping from the upper parts of the building.

 

-At 9:40 am on Saturday, July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber, crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building,. One engine shot through the side opposite the impact and flew as far as the next block, where it landed on the roof of a nearby building, starting a fire that destroyed a penthouse. The other engine and part of the landing gear plummeted down an elevator shaft. Fourteen people were killed in the incident, but a  elevator operator Betty Lou Oliver survived a plunge of 75 floors inside an elevator, which still stands as the Guinness World Record for the longest survived elevator fall recorded.