Winning team members who competed in the first-ever "Broker Challenge," a separate heat for commercial brokers that was part of the 31st Annual Empire State Building Run-Up with the New York Road Runners, join Steve Eynon, the property's director of leasing, on the 86th floor Observatory deck. Holding their trophies are CB Richard Ellis brokers (L to R) Michael Higgins, George Chatzopoulis, Reggie Wills, Melissa Nowak and Daniel Rodriguez-Sains.

The eight teams that ran up the 1,576 steps to the Observatory included brokers from CB Richard Ellis, Jones Lang LaSalle, Cushman & Wakefield, Newmark Knight Frank and Studley.