Misty Copeland and Glamour's Cindi Leive to Light Empire State Building Pink Next Week

Dance icon and Broadway star Misty Copeland, along with Glamour Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive, will illuminate the iconic tower lights of the Empire State Building in brilliant pink in honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of Glamour's Women of the Year Awards and the first anniversary of Glamour's global philanthropic initiative, The Girl Project, on Monday, November 9, 2015. At the illumination ceremony Copeland and Leive will deliver remarks and join together to flip the ceremonial switch.

Since 1990 Glamour's Women of the Year Awards have saluted the planet's most remarkable achievers. Recent honorees include Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Malala Yousafzai, Melinda Gates, Queen Rania, Lady Gaga, and Lupita Nyong'o. This year's honorees include Victoria Beckham, Misty Copeland, Elizabeth Holmes, Caitlyn Jenner, Cecile Richards, Reese Witherspoon, the Women of Charleston, and the U.S. women's national soccer team. At last year's awards Glamour announced the launch of The Girl Project, a global philanthropic initiative in partnership with NGOs Communities in Schools, CARE, Plan International USA, and Girls Inc., to raise funds to break down the barriers to secondary education for young women all over the world. Glamour will celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the awards and this year's honorees at Carnegie Hall.

On the evening of November 9, New Yorkers are invited to share their photos of the Empire State Building illuminated in Glamour pink on Instagram or Twitter using #EveryWomanCan and #GlamourWOTY25 to ignite a global conversation about empowering every woman to believe that she is capable of fulfilling her goals and inspiring others to do the same.

Glamour is the biggest fashion and beauty magazine brand in its competitive set, reaching an all-time high of one out of eight American women, with 11 million print readers and 9 million unique users online. Glamour has received a record number of National Magazine Awards, including Magazine of the Year, honoring print and digital excellence, and General Excellence for its category. Its content is available in an iPad edition, apps, podcasts, and books -- including two New York Times best-sellers. In 2013 Glamour launched its video channel, which now boasts 46 video series and has received substantial critical accolades, including a 2014 National Magazine Award for Video and a Television Academy honor. In 2014 Glamour launched Lipstick.com, Glamour's stand-alone beauty site and Condé Nast's first-ever digital spin-off. With a robust social strategy across Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat, Google+, and Tumblr, Glamour's total social media footprint is at a record high of 65 million touchpoints. For more information, visit Glamour.com.

The Girl Project, Glamour's global philanthropic initiative in partnership with NGOs Communities in Schools, CARE, Plan International USA, and Girls Inc., raises funds to break down the barriers to secondary education for young women all over the world. Fifty million girls worldwide are denied the right to an education; some are forced into child marriage, live in areas where education is forbidden, walk to school in fear of being kidnapped, or are unable to afford school fees. The Girl Project helps address those obstacles by allowing women in the U.S. to help support the actual schooling of girls around the globe. For more information, visit TheGirlProject.com.

Soaring 1,454 feet above Midtown Manhattan (from base to antenna), the Empire State Building, owned by Empire State Realty Trust, Inc., is the "World's Most Famous Building." With new investments in energy efficiency, infrastructure, public areas, and amenities, the Empire State Building has attracted first-rate tenants in a diverse array of industries from around the world. The skyscraper's robust broadcasting technology supports all major television and FM radio stations in the New York metropolitan market. The Empire State Building was named America's favorite building in a poll conducted by the American Institute of Architects, and the Empire State Building Observatory is one of the world's most beloved attractions as the region's number-one tourist destination. For more information on the Empire State Building, visit www.empirestatebuilding.com, www.facebook.com/empirestatebuilding, @EmpireStateBldg, www.instagram.com/empirestatebldg, www.youtube.com/esbnyc or www.pinterest.com/empirestatebldg.

Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: ESRT), a leading real estate investment trust (REIT), owns, manages, operates, acquires, and repositions office and retail properties in Manhattan and the greater New York metropolitan area, including the Empire State Building, the world's most famous office building. Headquartered in New York, New York, the company's office and retail portfolio covers 10 million rentable square feet, as of June 30, 2015, consisting of 9.3 million rentable square feet in 14 office properties, including nine in Manhattan, three in Fairfield County, Connecticut, and two in Westchester County, New York; and approximately 720,000 rentable square feet in the retail portfolio.

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