The crown of the Empire State Building was originally built for what purpose?

The story behind the answer

Airship Dock is correct because the Empire State Building’s crown was designed in 1930–31 as a mooring mast for dirigibles. Builders imagined sleek zeppelins tying up at the spire while passengers disembarked near the 102nd floor. In practice, fierce updrafts and turbulence around the skyscraper made docking dangerously unstable; only brief publicity moorings occurred, and the plan was abandoned.

To remember this, picture Manhattan as a “skyscraper airport” of the Jazz Age—an audacious idea cut short by physics and, soon after, the decline of airships (unders