The Empire State Building has 73 handsome Art Deco elevators — but fuck ’em, why not just take the stairs? That’s what almost 300 crazy fuckers did Tuesday for the 32nd-annual Empire State Building Run-Up, which pits runners against the clock and each other as they book it up the dark and dusty stairwells and 1,576 steps that lead to the building’s Observatory deck on the 86th floor. A 24-year-old German stair climber named Thomas Dold reached the top first in an astounding 10 minutes and 16 seconds, just a few seconds slower than the 10:07 run that snagged him the gold last year. Dold has now won the Empire Run-Up five years in a row, helping him earn a No. 3 ranking on the international Stair Climb Sport website. Stair climbing is a sport? Apparently yes, some people think it is.