In 2019, the Vessel became the centerpiece of New York City's Hudson Yards neighborhood. Standing at 150 feet tall, with a honeycomb-looking facade, the Vessel cost an estimated $200 million to create, as Insider previously reported.
5 alternative viewpoints for a million-dollar view of New York City
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Think of New York and an image of the skyscrapers of Manhattan likely comes to mind. The Empire State Building and the Rockefeller Center famously provide high-altitude views over that skyline — but there are other alternatives, whether hanging over the edge of a 100-storey building in Hudson Yards or sitting at a picnic table at a brewery in Brooklyn.
The standard experience at Edge is thrilling enough for most visitors — jutting out from the 100th floor of 30 Hudson Yards, the open-air, cantilevered ‘sky deck’ gives an outlook that cannot be experienced at the city’s other towers, hemmed in, as they are, by other buildings. At 1,100ft, it’s also the highest outdoor observation deck in the western hemisphere. The skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan rise to the south, One World Trade Center among them; all of New Jersey spreads out to the west; and, at your feet, a glass window in the floating platform gives an unadulterated sightline straight down to the street.
If you prefer your view delivered with an extra dose of adrenaline, book a place on the City Climb, several stories above. After being helped into a harness, run through a reassuringly high number of safety checks and clipped to a rail that runs round the building, you step out on to an open platform. Buffeted by the wind, and with the knowledge that you are at that moment the highest person taking the air in New York, you then scale metal steps running up one side of the tower, pausing to take in the surreal sight of the city laid out in miniature below. At the top, there’s one final challenge: to lean out over the edge, on a small terrace 1,200ft above ground, supported by a harness and the encouraging shouts of fellow climbers. General admission $36 (£28). City Climb $185 (£147).
Most visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art come to stare at its extraordinary collections, making a beeline for the latest blockbuster exhibition on creative giants such as Van Gogh or Karl Lagerfeld. Just as absorbing, though, are the views from the rooftop Cantor Garden, accessed via a lift near a display of Fabergé eggs on the first floor. Here, the crowds thin; those who make it up feel like they’ve made their own special discovery. Most bypass the al fresco bar and temporary art installations and head straight for the garden’s neatly clipped box hedging, over which lie views of Central Park and the buildings of the Lower West Side. $30 (£24).
Short of booking a tour of the Statue of Liberty, the best way to get up close to the national monument is to catch the Staten Island Ferry. Even better, it’s entirely free to ride. Puttering off from Battery Park at the southern tip of Manhattan, the distinctive orange boat takes 25 minutes to cross the harbour, passing
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