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A view of the visitor's lobby of the General Assembly building during the high-level week of the seventy-second session.

A detail view of the Trusteeship Council Chamber during the Summit of the Future Action Day Two.

The flags outside UN Headquarters are raised manually by UN Security Officers every weekday morning at approximately 8 am and lowered every weekday at around 4 pm, except in cases of bad weather. The 193 Member States of the United Nations are each assigned a flagpole, organized in English alphabetical order from north to south at UN Headquarters. In 2015, its non-member observer States (Holy See and the State of Palestine) got assigned their own flagpoles. On weekends, only the UN flag is raised. However, during UN General Assembly high-level week held in September each year, the flags of the UN and the world remain flying around the clock.

A view of UN Security Officers in the process of raising flags at UN Headquarters.

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Headline Housekeeping at United Nations Headquarters

Caption Description As visitors to UN Headquarters are well aware, the Secretariat building is really a “glass house” and there are breath-taking picture window views from the General Assembly and Conference buildings. Keeping these glass facades shining is a continuous operation, employing nine men all year long. Every 40 days, each of the 5,400 double-hung windows and 5,400 spandrels in the 39-story Secretariat building gets washed. There are, in addition, 560 panes of projected windows on the four floors devoted exclusively to mechanical equipment devoted in operation of the buildings. To provide an unmarred panorama of the East River, the 25-foot high plate-glass window-walls in the three Council chambers and conference rooms in the next building are cleaned every three days. It takes scaffoldings and high ladders to do this job. And a special apparatus—the electrically-driven telescope ladder, working like an elevator, shown here—is needed for washing the 45-foot high picture window at the south end of the Assembly building.

Unique Identifier UN7501348

NICA ID 353118

Production Date 10/01/1953 10:57:36 PM

City/Location New York

Country United States of America

Credit UN Photo/Albert Fox

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