Critics derided it as the "Empty State Building," and it was not profitable until 1950.

评论家们嘲笑地把它称为“空的大厦”(很多办公室都没有租出去)一直到1950年都没有盈利。

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New York's Empire State Building, which has been derided by some in the real estate world as the "Empty State Building", has also had trouble filling out its offices.

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The edifice complex that drove the builders of the Empire State Building helped fuel the bubble that burst into the Great Depression, such that the building sat practically empty for years.

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