2 People Arrested After Hanging Banner About 'the Power Of Love' On Empire State Building Antenna

NEW YORK — Two group sewage to nan apical of nan Empire State Building’s antenna and unfurled a banner astir “the powerfulness of love” astatine midday Tuesday, earlier starting to descend, embracing, taking selfies and yet being arrested.

Dressed successful achromatic and wearing masks — but not tethers, it appeared — nan 2 balanced connected a constrictive ledge and appeared to buss atop nan New York skyscraper’s antenna, which rises 1,454 feet supra midtown Manhattan, news chopper video showed. The banner, reference “when nan powerfulness of emotion thumps nan emotion of powerfulness nan world knows peace,” waved successful nan wind.

Just aft 12:30 p.m., they began to climb down, efficiently picking their measurement on nan latticework of metallic to a wider ledge, wherever 1 seemed to group up a portion of physics instrumentality and sewage down connected 1 knee. After nan 2 kissed again and hugged, nan different personification took selfies pinch an outstretched near hand, arsenic if examining a ring.

Police took them into custody aft 1 p.m. No 1 was injured, constabulary said.

It wasn’t clear really nan brace gained entree to nan antenna, which rises good supra nationalist areas of nan 102-story building.

There was nary contiguous reply to a connection to nan building’s management.

Daredevils person antecedently climbed nan antenna and different parts of nan Empire State Building. Those ascents person mostly been unauthorized, but character and musician Jared Leto was allowed to climb up to nan guidelines of nan antenna from nan 86th level successful 2023 to beforehand a tour.