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New York City's Rockefeller Center opens 'The Beam' - a new ride that allows visitors to re-create this historic photo of death-defying construction workers lunching atop the skyline - but social media reactions are mixed...
Daily Mail ^ | 12/01/23 | Emma Saletta

Posted on 12/02/2023 3:48:45 AM PST by Libloather

Tourists and native New Yorkers can reach new heights for a limited time on an all-new ride called The Beam.

Located in Rockefeller Center, The Beam Experience opened today for visitors looking to recreate an iconic New York photo of 11 ironworkers taken 91 years ago at the same building.

The 1932 black and white picture shows all the men sitting on a steel beam during their lunch break 69 stories high with a spectacular view of Central Park in the background.

The lucky visitors who try this new ride at the Top of the Rock are guaranteed a picture while sitting on a steel beam that raises them 12 feet above the Observation Deck.

Individuals looking to ride on The Beam can do so now until January 31 by purchasing tickets online starting at $34 per person.

Tishman Speyer Properties first proposed The Beam ride idea in 2021 as a way to re-create the famous photograph formally named Lunch Atop a Skyscraper.

Directing Rockefeller Center's redevelopment since 1996, the company suggested the ride be a rotating beam safe for riders looking for a great photo opportunity in New York City.

Tishman Speyer managing director EB Kelly discussed the proposal at a 2021 August Manhattan Community Board 5 meeting with hopes to implement The Beam and other ideas the company had to enhance 30 Rockefeller Plaza.

'We're looking to tell the story of Rockefeller Center in a new way that will bring people back to discover what Rockefeller Center symbolizes,' she said at the meeting via New York Post.

She continued by saying Rockefeller Center represents 'a beacon in the city, a place with incredible history, a place that is of the city, and that provides this beautiful and unique perspective on this city.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: beam; ride; rockefeller; skyline
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To: justme4now

Wait no, šŸ¤£. He came through Ellis Island.


21 posted on 12/02/2023 5:44:55 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Libloather

22 posted on 12/02/2023 5:46:35 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: KobraKai

I’d been told by my father that many of the workers were Indians (native Americans)


23 posted on 12/02/2023 5:46:57 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: DoodleBob

Loving that .gif


24 posted on 12/02/2023 5:48:09 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew (May I please have a government shutdown?)
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To: cowboyusa

“Sorry for the spelling, I type to fast.”

That should be ‘too’ fast ... ;-)


25 posted on 12/02/2023 5:55:25 AM PST by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: ByteMercenary

Ha


26 posted on 12/02/2023 5:58:47 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: cowboyusa

šŸ¤£


27 posted on 12/02/2023 6:16:30 AM PST by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: justme4now; KobraKai

“The project involved more than 3,500 workers at its peak, including 3,439 on a single day, August 14, 1930. Many of the workers were Irish and Italian immigrants, with a sizable minority of Mohawk ironworkers from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal.”


28 posted on 12/02/2023 6:24:23 AM PST by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Hot Tabasco; GeorgiaDawg32

There’s a video of a lunatic doing stunts at the top of an 840-foot smokestack in Romania; you can find it by googling “smokestack unicycle”. I have an OK head for heights, but it’s not easy for me to watch.


29 posted on 12/02/2023 6:31:34 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Hot Tabasco; GeorgiaDawg32

There’s a video of a lunatic doing stunts at the top of an 840-foot smokestack in Romania; you can find it by googling “smokestack unicycle”. I have an OK head for heights, but it’s not easy for me to watch.


30 posted on 12/02/2023 6:31:50 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Oops.


31 posted on 12/02/2023 6:32:15 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

I’ve seen it but I had to hold on to my chair with both hands......


32 posted on 12/02/2023 6:38:50 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Libloather

Letā€™s change it to a rail and put some tar and feathers with it and send it to Washington, D.C.


33 posted on 12/02/2023 6:39:48 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancerā€ )
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To: Libloather

The closest thing to this I ever did was to ride the roller coaster that sits on top of the New York-New York hotel casino in Las Vegas. The favorite way to experience that ride is at night.


34 posted on 12/02/2023 7:17:42 AM PST by Wuli ( ,)
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To: justme4now
Stunning photos - thanks for posting - I'm still nauseous :)
Ā  Ā  When I was a kid back in the 50s I could go out on the observation deck w/o a problem.
Fast forward to the 70s and I can't take a step out there. Have no idea why.
35 posted on 12/02/2023 8:12:57 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: Libloather

I do that at work. They make it a joke. Toxic masculinity


36 posted on 12/02/2023 6:13:00 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: justme4now

Indian iron workers are fearless


37 posted on 12/02/2023 6:15:18 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: justme4now

A great many of those ironworkers, and similar construction workers, were immigrants.

They came here to ... ummm ... oh, yeah: WORK.


38 posted on 12/02/2023 6:26:14 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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