The 101st floor is where the dining options will be, as well where you can take souvenir photos. The 102nd floor has event space for rent-so if someone needs a chatty seat-filler for your wedding, just drop me an invite. Then the wall closes again and you exit to a landing and head to the 101st floor. One World Observatory's See Forever Theater by Gothamist At the close of the video, the wall and panels dissolve into the ceiling and floor to reveal the view, which elicited plenty of "oohs." The theater's screen is made up of panels at different depths, adding a nice dimensionality to a well-produced, energetic "Welcome to New York" video. On the 102nd floor, you're escorted to the See Forever Theater, where visitors are gathered in a long room and watch a two-minute video about New York City. And yes, there are a few moments where the original Twin Towers are part of the skyline. The "Sky Pod" elevators take visitors to the 102nd floor in 47 seconds, and if there's one complaint, it's that the ride is perhaps too short! The elevator is lined with screens to replicate windows, and you start out seeing bedrock-but then a panorama of lower Manhattan, in its swampy pre-settler days, emerges, and you witness the transformation of New York from small shipping center to metropolis with billionaire skyscrapers.
A certain Native New Yorker exclaimed, "Wow, this looks fake!" and it did remind me a lot of a Disney ride like The Pirates of the Caribbean.įake rock is just a prelude for the two best parts of the visit. The second, Foundations, has simulated granite bedrock which Kerschner said was based on rock from Central Park and was meant to explain to visitors that only a building like this could be built on a strong foundation like New York schist.
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Then come a series of halls: The first, Voices, has construction workers, electricians and other laborers who helped build 1 WTC talking about the building's importance. The 102nd floor event space (Jen Chung / Gothamist)
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