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An NYPD helicopter pilot and a LaGuardia air traffic controller\u2019s radio chatter about the attention-seeking couple who scaled the Empire State Building Wednesday has gone viral as a quintessentially New York City exchange.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYeah what\u2019s all the hoopla going on over there?\u201d the air traffic controller asked the pilot as the death-defying stunt got underway.<\/p>\n

\u201cTwo geniuses climbed the Empire State Building to the top of the spire,\u201d the NYPD pilot responded with mild contempt.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh that\u2019s awesome,\u201d the LaGuardia air traffic controller responded.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not some worker changing a light, is it?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo, it\u2019s a male and female dressed in black, they had some flag they were waving when they were up at the top and he just proposed to her,\u201d the clearly unimpressed officer replied.<\/p>\n

Angelina Nikolau, 33 and her beau Ivan Kuznetsov, 32, were both arrested after climbing the tower to unfurl a banner at the top of the 1,454-foot landmark.<\/p>\n

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Kuznetsov then dropped to one knee on a platform beneath the skyscraper\u2019s spire and popped the question to Nikolau before descending into the arms of the NYPD.\u2019<\/p>\n

The duo appeared in court July 2 and were given supervised release.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re facing charges including burglary, reckless endangerment and criminal mischief, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

The couple was the subject of a 2024 Netflix documentary, \u201cSkywalkers: A Love Story,\u201d chronicling their extreme free-climbing exploits, which included scaling the 2,227-foot Merdeka 118 in Kuala Lumpur \u2013 the second-tallest building in the world.<\/p>\n

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