Has ocean front property

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Rusty Shackleford: Invest?!? The damn thing's a plane magnet!

Hell with the planes... it's a giant gorilla magnet!

Which was only horrible until aliens blew it up!

MaudlinMutantMollusk: Rusty Shackleford: Invest?!? The damn thing's a plane magnet!

Hell with the planes... it's a giant gorilla magnet!

Hell with the gorilla...it's a giant Tom Hanks magnet!

Built during the Great Depression with private funds.

/We could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

"Subby also has a bridge to sell you as well"

Subby is the kind of redundant person who says the same thing over and over again, repeating the same statement needlessly.

Stock? Meh.

When you guys start throwing felons off the roof and pay the Publishers' Clearinghouse grand prize to whomever gets landed upon, give me a call.

/hopefully not too obscure

RenegadJew: "it's a giant Tom Hanks magnet!"

What's fun about a building?

I considered buying some of that stock as I thought about it.

Capt_Evil: "Subby also has a bridge to sell you as well"

Subby is the kind of redundant person who says the same thing over and over again, repeating the same statement needlessly.

I thank you with my gratitude for that statement.

ringersol: RenegadJew: "it's a giant Tom Hanks magnet!"

What's fun about a building?

I dont get it.

Subby also has a bridge to sell you as well, too

/pet peeve

Crewmannumber6: ringersol: RenegadJew: "it's a giant Tom Hanks magnet!"

What's fun about a building?

I dont get it.

It's a Valentine's Day prank:

squeezing money out of old assets, Empire state building is a terrible building, nothing like being overrun by tourist, getting stopped every 20 seconds in the lobby to be some lost schmucks tour guide. hardly any good lunch places in the area that are not crowded to capacity. and they are charging $33 a square foot for rent

Well, that was wll played subby, as well.

Crewmannumber6: ringersol: RenegadJew: "it's a giant Tom Hanks magnet!"

What's fun about a building?

I dont get it.

It's not really all that funny at all anyways. Wait, wut?

empire state building's OWNER is making an IPO, not the building. I hate when people intentionally mislead in the headline to get an otherwise boring article on the front page

Rusty Shackleford: Invest?!? The damn thing's a plane magnet!

One World Trade Center construction seems pretty steady now, how soon till it's taller?

Also, someone wants to build this, so maybe it'll get surrounded.

Ahma paint mah sliver blue.

They need to rename it first.

Give it something catchy and modern, like the "Taquitos.com Bowl Building".

for some New York individuals, it's like owning at least ONE Sinatra album, I would stand in line to own at least ONE share of it.
Prolly can't afford that one share but wtf, I'll give it a shot.

Been living in exile too damn long.

In the news today ...

The price of crude oil rose after some guy dove from the top of the empire state building, sending bagel & lox plummeting to their lowest since Aushwitz. My hair is a bird, your argument is invalid.

Stay tuned to find out what you're doing right now will KILL you

Welcome to the Good Ol' USA™ Iconic Landmark and Real Estate Fire Sale© Please have your checkbook and Chinese or UAE passport ready and don't pee on stuff.

FreakinB: Kanemano: squeezing money out of old assets, Empire state building is a terrible building, nothing like being overrun by tourist, getting stopped every 20 seconds in the lobby to be some lost schmucks tour guide. hardly any good lunch places in the area that are not crowded to capacity. and they are charging $33 a square foot for rent

It is sort of a lunch wasteland. I'd say K-Town but I've only been there for dinner/late night. There are some solid pubs on 33rd, but like you said they get packed.

/Dad used to work on the 68th floor and we'd meet sometimes

Damn. I don't know much about commercial rental prices, but that is over $1600 a month for my cube. Probably over $2000 a month if you include my share of the walkway between cubes.


At what point does it become worthwhile to double-stack desks and have 2 short floors on one floor?

Wow, one would have thought the place would have been paid for by now, being as old as it is. They must have a few second mortgages on the place. This smells of mis-management. Federal Government kind of management.

dj245: FreakinB: Kanemano: squeezing money out of old assets, Empire state building is a terrible building, nothing like being overrun by tourist, getting stopped every 20 seconds in the lobby to be some lost schmucks tour guide. hardly any good lunch places in the area that are not crowded to capacity. and they are charging $33 a square foot for rent

It is sort of a lunch wasteland. I'd say K-Town but I've only been there for dinner/late night. There are some solid pubs on 33rd, but like you said they get packed.

/Dad used to work on the 68th floor and we'd meet sometimes

Damn. I don't know much about commercial rental prices, but that is over $1600 a month for my cube. Probably over $2000 a month if you include my share of the walkway between cubes.


At what point does it become worthwhile to double-stack desks and have 2 short floors on one floor?

We'll have so much more room for activities!

Invest in the Empire State Building? Does Cirocco Jones know about this?

/not titanically terribly obscure

Here come the oil rich arabs.

Underwriters listed on the paperwork for the IPO are Bank of America, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs.

Next week on Fark: All locks replaced in empire state building as BoA argues over legal tenants.

FreakinB: Kanemano: squeezing money out of old assets, Empire state building is a terrible building, nothing like being overrun by tourist, getting stopped every 20 seconds in the lobby to be some lost schmucks tour guide. hardly any good lunch places in the area that are not crowded to capacity. and they are charging $33 a square foot for rent

It is sort of a lunch wasteland. I'd say K-Town but I've only been there for dinner/late night. There are some solid pubs on 33rd, but like you said they get packed.

/Dad used to work on the 68th floor and we'd meet sometimes

I worked in that building for 3 years. The friggin' pipes between floors kept bursting. On weekends no less and no one would notice until it'd drip through 10 floors or so. I'll let your imagination picture a law office, filled with paper, being rained on for a weekend.

I did like the elevator speed and quantity though. And blasting through a line of tourists in a hurried rush.

I did see one jumper. And his severed leg that only made it to the 5th floor landing.

I read the article until that annoying ass advert wouldn't go away. So I went away.

rkiller1: Built during the Great Depression with private funds.

/We could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

AliceBToklasLives: rkiller1: Built during the Great Depression with private funds.

/We could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

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Capt_Evil: "Subby also has a bridge to sell you as well"

Subby is the kind of redundant person who says the same thing over and over again, repeating the same statement needlessly.

Came here to say this, which was what you said.


AliceBToklasLives: rkiller1: Built during the Great Depression with private funds.

/We could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

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Seconded. Unless you're trolling, in which case... 6/10.

rkiller1: Built during the Great Depression with private funds.

/We could use a man like Herbert Hoover again.

Yeah, but it took until the 50s to break even and WWII for it to become fully occupied. The builders used to turn lights on at random to make it look occupied.

And the private funds it was built with all came from Met Life, which was a mutual back then and couldn't risk its money in anything more risky than real estate.

dj245: they are charging $33 a square foot for rent

It is sort of a lunch wasteland. I'd say K-Town but I've only been there for dinner/late night. There are some solid pubs on 33rd, but like you said they get packed.

/Dad used to work on the 68th floor and we'd meet sometimes

Damn. I don't know much about commercial rental prices, but that is over $1600 a month for my cube. Probably over $2000 a month if you include my share of the walkway between cubes.

Most commercial real estate is priced as an annual amount, which would make this much more reasonable. Not saying they do that in this case, but most places I've ever seen in the West do it that way.

FreakinB: Kanemano: squeezing money out of old assets, Empire state building is a terrible building, nothing like being overrun by tourist, getting stopped every 20 seconds in the lobby to be some lost schmucks tour guide. hardly any good lunch places in the area that are not crowded to capacity. and they are charging $33 a square foot for rent

It is sort of a lunch wasteland. I'd say K-Town but I've only been there for dinner/late night. There are some solid pubs on 33rd, but like you said they get packed.

/Dad used to work on the 68th floor and we'd meet sometimes

I sure am glad that I'm not the only one that recognizes that neighborhood as a lunchtime black hole. When I have people visiting from other offices they always ask me 'where is a good place for lunch around here' to which I reply, 'take the train someplace else'.

Working there is ok, only had one jumper land on our floor in almost 4 years. Two made it past our ledge in that time though. If anything, the most annoying thing is getting into or out of the building. The idiot tour guides clog up the sidewalks with tourists "going to the top" all the damn time. Good thing I dress with spiked shoulderpads GWAR-style.

Goodfella: They need to rename it first.

Give it something catchy and modern, like the "Taquitos.com Bowl Building".

The 588-2300 Empire State Building.

/Been too long since that's been stuck in your head?
//You're welcome