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.'
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Wait no, š¤£. He came through Ellis Island.
I’d been told by my father that many of the workers were Indians (native Americans)
Loving that .gif
“Sorry for the spelling, I type to fast.”
That should be ‘too’ fast ... ;-)
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“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.”
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.
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.
Oops.
I’ve seen it but I had to hold on to my chair with both hands......
Letās change it to a rail and put some tar and feathers with it and send it to Washington, D.C.
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.
I do that at work. They make it a joke. Toxic masculinity
Indian iron workers are fearless
A great many of those ironworkers, and similar construction workers, were immigrants.
They came here to ... ummm ... oh, yeah: WORK.
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