{"id":198062,"date":"2026-04-15T14:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198062\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T14:10:14","slug":"new-book-highlights-workers-behind-empire-state-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/198062\/","title":{"rendered":"New book highlights workers behind Empire State Building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the Empire State Building approaches its 95th anniversary on May 1, a new book is shining a light on the people who helped build one of New York City\u2019s most iconic landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMen at Work,\u201d by author Glenn Kurtz, looks beyond the structure itself to tell the stories of the laborers who constructed the 1,400-foot skyscraper.<\/p>\n<p>Kurtz joined \u201cMornings On 1\u201d Wednesday to discuss the book and the human stories behind the landmark.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the full interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Empire State Building approaches its 95th anniversary on May 1, a new book is shining a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2274,25,2275,3952,9,24,12,56,63,65,64,380,27,200],"class_list":["post-198062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-app-mornings-on-1","tag-app-top-stories","tag-mornings-on-1","tag-mornings-on-1-authors-week","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198062","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=198062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}