The banner, reading “when the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace,” waved in the wind atop the Empire State Building in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S.
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Two people got to the top of the Empire State Building’s antenna and unfurled a banner about “the power of love” at midday Tuesday (July 1, 2026), before starting to descend, embracing, taking selfies and ultimately being arrested.Dressed in black and wearing masks — but not tethers, it appeared — the two balanced on a narrow ledge and appeared to kiss atop the New York skyscraper’s antenna, which rises 1,454 feet (443 metres) above midtown Manhattan, news helicopter video showed.The banner, reading “when the power of love beats the love of power the world knows peace,” waved in the wind.
Workers near Madison Square Garden stop and look up toward the Empire State Building in New York on July 1, 2026.
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