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At first glance, this might look like a modern AI rendering of New York City—but it’s the real deal. 📸 In the early 1930s, photographer Andreas Feininger built his own telephoto lens to capture this rare shot of the freshly completed Empire State Building rising high above a low-rise Manhattan. Taken from across the Hudson River in New Jersey, the photo shows a city still in transition—townhouses and small buildings dominating the skyline while the Empire State looked almost out of place. Standing 1,454 feet tall, it was the world’s tallest building for nearly 40 years. Yet during the Great Depression, it sat so empty that locals nicknamed it the “Empty State Building.” Feininger’s ingenuity gave us one of the clearest glimpses of New York’s skyline at a moment when the Empire State truly stood alone. 🏙️✨ #viral #history #empirestatebuilding #manhattan #newyork #architecture #ny #nyc #newyorkcity