Empire State Building Year 2025 Construction. On april 11, 1931, barely a year after it began, work on the empire state building was finished. This year, new york city's residential market started heating up, particularly at the top.
As part of the first phase in an extensive rebuilding project, the empire state building observatories have a newly renovated entrance. In midtown manhattan, on fifth avenue at 34th street, is the empire state.