Original caption: 9/19/1930-New York, NY-Workmen at the new Empire State building that is being erected on the site of the old Waldorf Astoria Hotel at 34th Street and 5th Avenue. in New York, by a corporation headed by the former Governor Al Smith, raised a flag on the 88th story of the great building, 1,048 feet above the street. the flag thus is at the highest point in the city higher then the Crystler Building. Photo shows the workmen at the ceremonies. — Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS