Visitors can once again access the crown of the Statue of Liberty, one of New York’s most emblematic viewpoints, which had been closed since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The National Park Service, which manages the monument, halted visits in March 2020, and although parts of the statue have been gradually opened, its crown has remained inaccessible to the public so far. To visit the viewpoint it is necessary to buy the ticket in advance and the interest is such that the tickets have sold out throughout the month of October.
The crown is accessed only by climbing a narrow staircase of 162 steps from the pedestal of the statue, already placed at a height of about ten floors, but people with reduced mobility can reach it with an elevator.
The famous monument is located on the small island of Liberty, in the middle of the New York Bay. In 1886 France donated to the United States the sculpture entitled “Liberty Enlightening the World”, created by the sculptor Frédéric Bartholdi, in honor of the first centenary of North American independence.
During the creation process, Bartholdi used several small-scale prototypes to work with the proportions of the final work, 46 meters.
