{"id":329117,"date":"2026-08-25T10:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329117\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T10:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T10:08:27","slug":"empire-state-building-in-new-york-illuminated-in-blue-and-yellow-svitolina-flips-the-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329117\/","title":{"rendered":"Empire State Building in New York illuminated in blue and yellow \u2013 Svitolina flips the switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Empire State Building in New York was illuminated in blue and yellow on Monday evening to mark the 35th anniversary of Ukraine\u2019s independence.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina switched on the lights, Ukrinform reported, citing the Empire State Building\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/empirestatebuilding\/posts\/pfbid032BCuseNKF2Xf8zcMbF58X1nhC9E4DbWqvNi7278TLNfdJdXa23fKuqfPjUJYtvP6l\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElina Svitolina flipped the switch &#8211; tonight, the Empire State Building shines in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, blue and yellow, in honor of the 35th anniversary of Ukraine\u2019s independence,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n<p>The website also featured a photo of Svitolina switching on the illumination, as well as an image of the illuminated building.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.ua\/rubric-diaspora\/4157078-ukrainci-za-kordonom-vidznacaut-den-nezaleznosti-ukraini.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukrainians abroad mark Ukraine\u2019s Independence Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The building\u2019s illumination could also be viewed live on the Empire State Building\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, August 24, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.ua\/rubric-society\/4156445-den-nezaleznosti-ukraini.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ukraine marked the 35th anniversary of the restoration of its independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Empire State Building in New York was illuminated in blue and yellow on Monday evening to mark&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-329117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329117","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=329117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}