{"id":141820,"date":"2026-02-22T15:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141820\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T15:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T15:17:23","slug":"book-recounts-stories-of-men-who-built-empire-state-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141820\/","title":{"rendered":"Book recounts stories of men who built Empire State Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Empire State Building has been a staple of New York City\u2019s skyline for nearly 95 years.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the history of the men who built the 102-story building has gone mostly unrecognized for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the stories of the working-class, immigrant and indigenous people who built the architectural wonder are being explored in the new book, \u201cMen at Work: The Empire State Building and the Untold Story of the Craftsmen Who Built It.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Glenn Kurtz, the author, joined \u201cThe Rush Hour\u201d on Friday to talk about the laborers of the iconic structure.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Empire State Building has been a staple of New York City\u2019s skyline for nearly 95 years. Yet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,471,9,24,11,10,49,51,50,12,2370,3111,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-141820","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-top-stories","9":"tag-dean-meminger","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-ny1-interviews","19":"tag-the-rush-hour","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}