Looking at the Beam from the side, it doesn’t look like much. The Cologne cathedral operates a one-way system to the roof, which meant I had to reverse past other people as I gingerly descended. I had an acrophobia episode halfway up, and had to sort of crab down the stairs backwards on my hands and knees. In 2007, I visited Cologne cathedral, which allows people to climb to the roof up a caged-in staircase. I don’t like standing near the edge of balconies. I wince when people jump around the top of buildings on YouTube. If you weren’t strapped in with a heavy-duty seatbelt, you could jump off the Beam and survive with only a sprained ankle It doesn’t make for a particularly exhilarating ride, unless you’re afraid of heights. And you aren’t allowed to hold anything, so forget about lighting a cigarette or swigging from a bottle of hooch. No one is dangling over the city’s streets, like the men in the 1930s photo. The Beam, located on the outdoor deck of 30 Rockefeller’s 69th floor, is raised by a hydraulic pump to 12ft above the deck itself. The thing is though: there is no soaring 800ft above NYC. There’s a camera ready to take a very expensive photo, and the opportunity to, as one New York media outlet put it, “soar visitors 800ft above NYC”, is an alluring one. It’s that death-defying aspect of the photo that the Rockefeller Center’s new ride-cum-photo opportunity, Top of the Rock: The Beam, which is perched almost at the top of 30 Rockefeller, is hoping to re-create.īilled as the area’s “premier new attraction”, the Beam allows people to sit on a big metal beam and be raised into the air, so that it looks a bit like the scene in Lunch atop a Skyscraper. Also, they don’t have any safety equipment. If the plans for the proposed freefall drop do get approved, we’re left to wonder if thrill seekers will start flocking here, rather than Hudson Yards’ Edge, where you can now skate at NYC’s highest roller rink, or Rockefeller Center’s Top of the Rock.But, as the photo’s name suggests, the remarkable thing about Lunch atop a Skyscraper, which has inspired a new ride above the Rockefeller Center, is that the men are sitting on a metal construction beam, and they’re about 850ft above the streets of New York City. The plan for the building was first conceptualized ten years ago after Extell Development firm acquired the property from Boston Properties and Stephen Ross’ Related Companies. Observation decks may also occupy three floors worth of space in the upper section of the highrise as well. The proposed project is from estate developer Extell Development, suggests that adding a vertical-drop ride to the building not only explores a whole new realm of hotel hospitality, but also attract tourists alongside “a few jaded New Yorkers,” reports Curbed.ĭesigned by ODA Architecture, 825 hotel rooms along with retail shopping will make up the base of the building, while a restaurant and VIP space will be housed in the upper section.Īnd, right smack dab in the middle, connecting the upper and lower sections, will be a 26-foot freefall drop between the two sections. A mixed-use tower is making its way to 740 Eighth Avenue, according to The Real Deal, and the 56-story building will bring together a hotel, fine dining, and a thrill ride?!
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