Our first destination

New York City!!!

Some of you guessed right, it IS the Empire State Building!!!

Looks more impressive this way...

We liked the textured 1x2 bricks.  We also liked the vertical "grills".

One challenge we faced was that we didn't have the gray "change direction" (or "stud-not-on-top"), SNOT) pieces for the bottom.  We used tan-colored ones.

Next, it's going back in time, still staying in NYC...

As before let us know your guesses in the comments section...