It’s a Friday afternoon, we’re all about ready to wind down for the weekend, so let’s kick back, relax and look at some pretty pictures of New York City.
Today, the observation deck which tops off New York’s One world Trade Center opens to the public. The building occupies the site where the Twin Towers stood until 9/11, and like the taller of its predecessors, stands 1,368 feet tall. Throw in a broadcast mast/faintly gratuitous spire*, though, and that figure rises to 1776 feet, to represent the date of the Declaration of Independence, and the building has become known, inevitably, as the Freedom Tower.
The observation deck, which occupies the 100th, 101st and 102nd floors and highest floor, is not quite the highest such tourist attraction in the world: that honour goes to the one in Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, which is on the 148th floor. But it’s pretty high nonetheless, and New York is prettier than Dubai anyway, so here are some pictures.
This one shows the sun rising over Manhattan and Brooklyn this morning:
