7. The top of the spire is full of concrete and infrastructure
Upon the release of Hidden Cities, author Moses Gates took Opie of the Opie & Anthony Show to the top of the spire, revealing in the above video that the Chrysler Building’s spire does not hold much other than concrete and infrastructure.
“The crazy thing is that you think of the Chrysler Building as Art Deco — shiny, chrome, metal,” Gates says in the video. “You’re inside it and it’s all reinforced concrete. You never would have thought it.”