{"id":283917,"date":"2026-07-01T18:48:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/283917\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:48:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T18:48:51","slug":"peace-banner-stunt-atop-empire-state-building-ends-in-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/283917\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace banner stunt atop Empire State Building ends in proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pair, dressed in sleeveless black outfits, hung onto the landmark skyscraper&#8217;s antenna spire near the glowing red light at its top some 1,454 feet (443 meters) above the sidewalk of midtown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-897692\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Manhattan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">They held a black banner with a message in all-capital white letters that flapped in the wind: &#8220;When the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Following the banner stunt, one of the pair got down on one knee, according to an aerial video feed from a local news network, and then the pair embraced and appeared to kiss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">It was not immediately clear who the two people were, nor when or how they got up there. A little after 12:30 pm, they began to slowly climb down to a slightly lower platform in the antenna structure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The pair were reportedly arrested by police upon their descent to ground level, according to a New York City Police spokesperson, though no further details on the identity of individuals or the stunt were provided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The pair, dressed in sleeveless black outfits, hung onto the landmark skyscraper&#8217;s antenna spire near the glowing red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[108879,75,84,83,9,24,63,4648],"class_list":["post-283917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-climbing","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283917","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=283917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}