It attracts the eye like a magnet with its bevelled glass facades! You can’t miss the new One World Trade Center tower.
America’s tallest skyscraper (541 m) doesn’t just reshape the New York skyline. It is also the symbol of a city which is reborn from its ashes.
Elevators as fast as a scooter (37 km / h!) Lead to One World Observatory, located on the 102nd floor and open since 2015; an alternative to the Empire State Building and Rockefeller Center observatories.
A film tells the story of New York’s building time-lapse during the climb, before visitors take in the 360 ° view. Dominating the skyscrapers of the financial district, the observatory reveals a panorama of New York that we had forgotten for 15 years, with on one side the Statue of Liberty, the Brooklyn Bridge and the shores of New Jersey; and on the other side all of Manhattan, to Central Park, far away!
You can have a coffee or dine in the One Dine restaurant. Or better yet, organize a private event (up to 300 p.) With your head in the clouds.
The visit combines with the discovery of the National September 11 Memorial Museum – the new museum that traces the events of September 11 – built at the foot of the skyscraper, as well as the two basins that pay homage to the victims of the attacks, built at the exact location of the old Twin Towers.
Water trickles down the black walls before falling into a nine-meter pit, like an endless fall. Heartwarming …
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