As if you had wings in New York – ABC Magazine

The experience is really wonderful. The viewpoint is about 345 meters high, on the 100th floor of the building The Edgewest of the island of Manhattan, in the Hudson Yards neighborhood.

Before boarding the elevator, the welcome is given in the middle of an immersive multimedia experience about the neighborhood Hudson Yardswhich under the concept Our cities, our future it is the first LEED Gold neighborhood development to be built in New York City. According to the tour Hudson Yards is a real working prototype of how the cities of the future can run smarter and greener.

Once in the elevator, while the floor numbers change in seconds, some images accompany the ascent and a voice-over tells the story of the environment where this new skyscraper was builtopened in 2020.

As soon as you blink, the elevator door opens to allow you to enter the spacious lobby, where a bar, tables and chairs are located, to begin appreciate the magnificent views of New York from up high.

Outdoors, the experience takes on another dimension with panoramic views of the citywhere we can see the Hudson River, Central Park, part of Queens, Brooklyn and iconic New York buildings.

But the great adventure beats with the transparent platform, in the middle of the viewpoint. The bravest walk on it looking down, sit there or even lie on their stomachs to look at the hundreds of buildings that lie there.

Another challenge for vertigo is to take “the photo” at one of the ends where the transparent walls of the viewpoint converge, something that in seconds allows us to overcome –or not– our fears when it is our turn to pose.

The laughter and comments, in different languages, of those in line are another part of the fun of this ride where you rub shoulders with people from all over the world. The Paraguayans, present, of course, such as Gladys Contrera and Marta Rolón, who also signed up to this great experience.

The most intrepid have the opportunity to climb a few more meters to get out amazing photosas if they were hovering over New York. something really shocking is to see them pose, wearing special suits, shortened with harnesses. Below them, a large audience looks at them in surprise and applaud that audacity that have.

The looker The Edge It is open every day and prices vary from $40, depending on the services one chooses. Tickets are sold in the building’s lobby, at an electronic kiosk, and also on websites.

Without a doubt, it is one of the activities that worth doing while in New York.