Posted Jan 2, 2022, 1:16 AM
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https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/marke...y-vistas/54001
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Prior to the pandemic, in 2019, New York City was ushering in over 66.6 million visitors, a tenth-consecutive annual record according to the city's official tourism bureau NYC & Company. While significantly down since then due to the pandemic and accompanying travel restrictions, the numbers are expected to bounce back later in the decade.
As they do, observation decks allowing people to see the city's skyline from a great height will undoubtedly make their way on the list of things to do in New York. The Empire State Building welcomes more than four million visitors a year, and a growing number of observation decks have sprung up on noteworthy buildings, offering experiences and views seemingly made for social media. Hudson Yards' Edge and One Vanderbilt's Summit both opened in recent years, and other major building owners have proposed observation decks at or near the tops of their towers.
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According to Crain’s New York, Jamestown is tinkering with the idea of redeveloping One Times Square with an observatory for New Year's Eve revelers to be front and center of ball-drop festivities (this year's have been scaled back, but will nevertheless take place). The iconic 23-story tower was the former home of The New York Times and garners the attention of millions for its famed ball drop every New Year’s Eve.
Last year, Aby Rosen, owner of the Chrysler Building, received unanimous Landmarks approval to alter the building's 61st-floor terraces in an effort to open an observation deck and reopen the Cloud Club venue near the top of the Art Deco-styled tower. It will be located just above the silver eagles that jut out from the tower and shielded by virtually invisible glass walls.
The most ambitious of them all may come from Gary Barnett's Extell Development, the country's pre-eminent builder of skyscrapers of this century so far. Planned for a large site just off Times Square at 740 Eighth Avenue, newly-approved plans show the developer is aiming to build a massive 1,350-key hotel topped by a telescopic observation tower soaring 1,120 feet high into the skyline. The massing of the tower, as seen photographed in the wind tunnel study above, shows a somewhat unwieldy design. Extell failed to acquire the full Eighth Avenue blockfront resulting in an awkward footprint wrapping around low-rise holdouts. To prop the observation floors higher than the adjacent buildings, an approximately 300-foot-tall central core will jut out from the building to support a half-dozen floors high above the city.
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