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i can see the empire state building from my office, so i felt somewhat personally connected to this event, which occurred early this morning. how cool!! i can't wait for there to be more colors.

the most fascinating part of this story, though, was the following: For decades, only nine colors have been available in lighting the building, deployed by six maintenance workers who braved the elements on the parapets to install — by hand — colored plastic lenses on the tops of 208 old-fashioned floodlights, a job that can take six hours. They worked the color changes 200 times a year.