Grateful Dead Light Up NYC Skyline

Karen, 10.19.09, 10:33am
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Tie Dye Birthday
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Tonight, if you see hippies being drawn to NYC like Batman to Gotham, there’s a good reason.

Although it is common for the Empire State Building to bathed in colored light in recognition of various occasions, tonight the skyscraper is going wild: with tie-dye.

The 102-story NYC building will sport a psychedelic lightshow in honor of the New York Historical Society’s Benefit for Grateful Dead Exhibition and Archive.

(Read: Billy Corgan starts Psychedelic Band with Navarro, ’60s Icons)

We’re not sure that having a building lit in your honor can compete with having your own flavor of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream, but it’s still pretty cool.

Who else should the Empire State Building pay tribute to?

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