Purchase your tickets in advance online (esbnyc.com). You can’t skip the security line, but you can skip to the front of both this line and the line for elevators by purchasing an Express Pass for an extra $ 45—if time is tight, it guarantees you’ll get to the observation deck in twenty minutes.
Fodor’s Travel Wire
Save time and skip the line at the Empire State Building in New York City
September 11, 2011 by