The Edge in New York: Highest viewing platform in the western world

The Edge is the newest attraction in New York. The viewing platform at a height of 380 meters rivals previous attractions.

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New York. Looks from below The ­Edge like the main sail of a dinghy tipped over on the Hudson River next door. If you stand on the triangular point at a height of about 380 meters, the (hopefully free from giddiness) viewer feels like in heaven. Thanks to the glass floor of the new attraction above the roofs of New York, the hustle and bustle on the floor of the metropolis lies like under a magnifying glass

If you stand up against it, the previous monopolists in the business with the beautiful view come into view at eye level: the Top of the Rock roof terrace on Rockefeller Center (259 m), the top of the venerable Empire State Building. And finally, in the very south of Manhattan, the one that opened five years ago One World Trade Center.

With them, the occurs until further notice highest open-air viewing platform of the western world from today officially in the competition. The target group are wealthy customers (from $ 36 for adults) who want to withdraw to the heights at least once during their stay in the Big Apple because of the tranquility and sublimity. To slow down and look down at everything that you would otherwise only look up to in amazement in the urban jungle.

The Edge competes with the Empire State Building and Co.

With The Edge, the provisional high point of the venture out of the ground using 25 billion dollars Nobelviertels Hudson Yards, a small renaissance of observation towers begins in New York. At the end of the 18th century, almost all of the city’s skyscrapers were accessible. In the 1930s, eleven public panoramic terraces were still inviting visitors to a relaxed 360-degree view.

When Rockefeller Center hadn’t reopened and the World Trade Center was razed to the ground in the September 11, 2001 attacks, it had Empire State Building a unique position that is reflected in numbers to this day. Around 3.5 million visitors took a high-speed elevator to the viewing levels on the 86th floor in 2019 for prices between 36 and 42 dollars. If you want to go higher, to the 102nd floor, you have to shell out between 66 and 108 dollars; per person. In the last quarter of 2019 alone, the owner of the recently extensively renovated property, the Empire State Realty Trust, took in almost 38 million dollars.

New York’s observation decks are popular with guests

Overall, onlookers contribute 40 percent of what the property generates overall. Rockefeller Centerwith a spacious roof garden at a height of 260 meters, and One World Trade Center, which is also popular because of its multimedia accompanying program that is impressively installed at a height of around 400 meters, each attract around two million visitors a year.

Billionaire Stephen Ross, head of The Related Companies, the group that created the highly artificial-looking Hudson Yards, believes that The Edge can offer a “unique and immediate open-air experience.” Tony Malkin, head of the Empire State, is semi-enthusiastic and spoke of one in top dog fashion after a flying visit to the new platform “Sterile experience”.

In New York, last believes that the market is saturated for panorama hunters who want to see Lady Liberty, the green shimmering tower of the United Nations or the silver scales of the Chrysler Building from a bird’s eye view 60 million guests nobody in the year.

The next place of longing opens in New York in August

The next place of longing opens in August. Opposite the Grand Central train station is the 460 meter high glass tower One Vanderbilt. Here, too, additional elevators, a separate escape route system and high-tech security gates were taken into account in order to bring hundreds of thousands to 335 meters in the heart of Manhattan in the future.

There it is supposed to hover over Madison Avenue two outdoor areas give; one of them with an open-air bar. One of the extras of this lookout is a large restaurant by star chef Daniel Boulud, which will be cooking for the first guests as early as Christmas 2020. The “summit” itself (The Summit) will only be climbed at the end of 2021. Expected annual income: $ 50 million.

The famous Empire State Building only reopened after renovations last October. Skyscrapers are also being built in Berlin – the highest building in the capital is to be built on Alexanderplatz with the 150-meter-high “Alexander Tower”.

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