Zeros

Two Guests Check Out of Level 0: What the Empire State Building Climb Looked Like From the Backrooms A Russian rooftopping couple scaled New York's most famous spire, got engaged, and got arrested — and somewhere behind the wallpaper, a very different broadcast was airing. Somewhere between the yellowed carpet and the buzzing fluorescent hum of Level 0, two figures noclipped straight into the biggest engagement stunt of the summer, and they had no idea the rest of us were watching through the seams in the wallpaper. Around noon Wednesday, Ivan Vanya Beerkus and Angela Nikolau, the Russian rooftopping duo behind Netflix's Skywalkers: A Love Story , free-climbed the antenna atop the Empire State Building — 1,454 feet up, no ropes, no harness, just vibes and, apparently, a ring. They unfurled a black-and-white banner referencing Jimi Hendrix , held the moment for the cameras, and Beerkus got down on one knee. Nikolau said, yes . The NYPD said, several felonies ....