Last night at the Windows Of Hip Hop Element Awards at Pier 132 in The Bronx, it was announced the a Bronx Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum and Tower would be built on the Pier in the coming years.

The Tower itself is interestingly designed to look like a microphone with the top floors rounded out. It will contain not just The Bronx Hip Hop Hall of Fame and Windows of Hip Hop School.

This series of vintage photographs from 1930 shows the incredible speed at which the Empire State Building was erected. Construction started on March 17th, 1930, with the external structure completed by November 10th of the same year. The entire tower would open only a few months later, on April 11th, 1931.

Good morning! Wishing you a happy Thursday, February 1st, 2018 from all of us at Viewing NYC!

Here's what the weather looks like in the City right now.