re: Is it hard to jump off the Empire State Building?

If you go to the top on the tourist trap trip you have to change elevators way up high like at the 80th floor and once I went over and peeked outside of one. No gate, no bars, just a straight drop 80 stories down. So no, it is not hard to jump of the ESB but it is impossible to do from the observation deck. BTW the ESB is a functioning office building, the offices on those floors, those windows can be opened.