It was the Rockefeller Centre. It wasn't 'faked' as such - in that it was indeed workmen sitting on a beam high above the ground. But it was 'staged' in that they didn't normally sit there and have their lunch - but did so for three photographers who also took other photos of men sleeping / walking on the beams and so on.No, not faked. That IS the building of the Empire State Building.
That looks like 3.40 to me, not 8.15. Have OMD been misleading us all these years?Hiroshima 'Stopped Watch'.