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The first place I went to on Thursday, was The Vessel. It's essentially a big sculpture that you can walk up. It is shaped like a vase, and made of walkways and stairs.
I didn't get a very good photo of it. I was looking for the artistic shots...
Unfortunately, you couldn't go up in it. They only let you inside it on the ground floor. Three or four people had killed themselves by jumping off of it, and they haven't yet done anything to prevent that, so you can't go up in it. There's kind of a fight, where the people who run the place are saying they will train the security guards to watch for suicidal people, and the families of the people who killed themselves are saying they should just put up taller railings. Personally, I'm angry with the jumpers. Are you telling me they couldn't find a place to jump other than into the midst of tourists?
There's a four-level shopping mall across the street, in 30 Hudson Yards (which is where the previous photo was taken from). 30 Hundson Yards is the 6th tallest building in New York, and they have an observation deck, so I went up.
It looks like this.
And it has a glass floor.
Which everybody loves.
The observation deck is on the 100th floor. There's an indoor section with a souvenir shop and photo ops.
You can see 111 West 57th Street (aka Steinway Tower), which is obviously taller than where we stand. It is the third-tallest building in New York, at 1,428-foot (435-meter)
You can see we're at roughly the same level as the spire of the Empire State Building. The official heights of the buildings put that one at 20 feet shorter than this one. If you look at the ESB, at the top of the cylindrical part is the top floor, which is a small observation deck on the 102nd floor, which is the top floor. In 30 Hudson Yards, there are not nearly as many floors, though the building is just as tall. The floor above this one they call 101, has a bar and an event space. They call that the top floor, though in the photo above, you can see the building goes up higher. There aren't actually floors every place where you would expect one, and they number the floors not sequentially, but for the place the floor would be if the floors were there.
If you look closely at that first photo, way up at the top, there are people there. These people are doing City Climb. They don the blue coveralls and climb up to this ledge. Then they can lean out over the edge! I had no idea this was going on over my head when I was on the deck. I wish I had looked up more carefully.
I didn't get a very good photo of it. I was looking for the artistic shots...
Unfortunately, you couldn't go up in it. They only let you inside it on the ground floor. Three or four people had killed themselves by jumping off of it, and they haven't yet done anything to prevent that, so you can't go up in it. There's kind of a fight, where the people who run the place are saying they will train the security guards to watch for suicidal people, and the families of the people who killed themselves are saying they should just put up taller railings. Personally, I'm angry with the jumpers. Are you telling me they couldn't find a place to jump other than into the midst of tourists?
There's a four-level shopping mall across the street, in 30 Hudson Yards (which is where the previous photo was taken from). 30 Hundson Yards is the 6th tallest building in New York, and they have an observation deck, so I went up.
It looks like this.
And it has a glass floor.
Which everybody loves.
The observation deck is on the 100th floor. There's an indoor section with a souvenir shop and photo ops.
You can see 111 West 57th Street (aka Steinway Tower), which is obviously taller than where we stand. It is the third-tallest building in New York, at 1,428-foot (435-meter)
You can see we're at roughly the same level as the spire of the Empire State Building. The official heights of the buildings put that one at 20 feet shorter than this one. If you look at the ESB, at the top of the cylindrical part is the top floor, which is a small observation deck on the 102nd floor, which is the top floor. In 30 Hudson Yards, there are not nearly as many floors, though the building is just as tall. The floor above this one they call 101, has a bar and an event space. They call that the top floor, though in the photo above, you can see the building goes up higher. There aren't actually floors every place where you would expect one, and they number the floors not sequentially, but for the place the floor would be if the floors were there.
If you look closely at that first photo, way up at the top, there are people there. These people are doing City Climb. They don the blue coveralls and climb up to this ledge. Then they can lean out over the edge! I had no idea this was going on over my head when I was on the deck. I wish I had looked up more carefully.
