In the San Diego neighborhood we used to live in, the garage door opener would stop working for weeks at a time. Not just for us, but for everyone living near the bay, where the Navy base is. There were articles in the paper about it, and everyone blamed the Navy, but the Navy would never fess up. All of a sudden, the problem would end, and the garage door openers would start working again.
If this is happening, it could be because something similar is going on in or under the Empire State Bldg.
It's not the Navy's fault.
IIRC, the garage door companies used a heretofore little used frequency allocated to the military.
Guess what happens when the military starts using their allocated frequencies?
Oh, you already know...