The Empire State Building is perhaps the iconic skyscraper. It has stood the test of time as a classic example of art deco architecture and has continued to dominate the city skyline since its completion. Recently, the Empire State Building received an upgrade. A new antenna was installed and, most importantly, the new LED lights that illuminate the New York skyline every night. So it got me thinking: What's something most people don't know about the Empire State Building? I could talk about the Astoria Hotel, which once stood where the Empire State Building now stands, about the beautiful five-story lobby, about how a B-25 crashed into the building in 1945, about the fact that the building is been visited by numerous celebrities since 1931, including Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Pope Pius XII, Fidel Castro and Queen Elizabeth II, to name a few, or that at the laying of the cornerstone, only one man in New York City refused to go, Walter P. Chrysler. But then I thought I needed something better and bigger. So I looked at the top floors of the building, and did you know that when the Empire State Building was completed, it was fully equipped with a zeppelin docking station, which is a parking lot for an airship.nytimes.comThe idea of ​​making it possible for zeppelins, blimps, dirigibles or whatever you want to call them, docking at the Empire State Building came in 1929. The theory came from investors who argued the building and they were, looking for more investors and money, a 1250 foot 2 inch to build doesn't come cheap, you know. They even had an image produced of the US Navy's Los Angeles airship docked at the antenna (shown above), using the 1929 version of Photoshop. Now the building itself was originally only supposed to be 1050 feet tall... in the center of the card. ..n to do something like that. But I don't think that's what stopped the feat from happening. I think the airship companies just saw it as impractical and just easier to land in a field than risk sticking to a building. Today, construction engineers reconsider the bold idea and see that it was possible, with a few minor modifications. The idea was great and it's quite sad to see it never came to fruition. Today we are left with some retouched photos and some accounts of what might have been. The Empire State Building has always been seen as before its time and the idea of ​​attaching a blimp to it only adds to the heritage of the building and the charm of the Empire State Building. A mooring station would pave the way for the city of tomorrow, well a city of tomorrow in the 1930s sense, but imagine the impact it would have on the Big Apple today.