11 victims and the rescue workers who responded to the attack will enter for free. seven days a week with the last ticket sold at 7:15 p.m. Non-summer operating hours are from 9 a.m. to midnight seven days a week with the last ticket sold at 11:15 p.m. Admission for seniors 65 and above will be $30. And One Dine will serve gourmet cuisine.Īdults aged 13 to 64 will pay $32. One Mix will be a casual dining area with tapas and cocktails. One Cafe will have made-to-order items such as sandwiches and salads. Visitors also will have three dining options on the 101st floor. 'This floor is about using technology to teach people about New York, to present New York in the best possible light,' Checketts says. On the same floor, guests can also stand on a Sky Portal, a 14-foot-wide circular disc that offers views of the streets below, also in real-time. 'City Pulse is going to show you New York in ways you would not have dreamed of.' 'We're on top of the clouds,' said Whit Baldwin, a City Pulse coach, during a demonstration. The recommendations will change regularly and real-time Twitter feeds will be displayed. Their choices will be guided by requests from the audience. At City Pulse, ambassadors will be stationed inside a ring of high-definition video monitors showing scenes from throughout the city and recommendations for dining, sightseeing or simply acting like a local.Ībout 20 ambassadors have been trained in gesture-recognition technology to pull the appropriate imagery onto the screens. There are two interactive 'concierge' stations on the 100th floor. Technology is used in interesting ways all over the observatory. Floor-to-ceiling LED technology in each elevator will offer a time-lapse of the development of New York's skyline from the 1500s to today. Carrying 15 people each, the pods will take them to the 102nd floor in less than a minute. That's followed by entering a cave-like walkway called Foundations, where facts about the bedrock on which the building stands are projected onto the rocks that make up the walls.įrom there they will get to five elevators called Sky Pods. When they first pass security, they will enter the Global Welcome Center, where a large video screen will greet them in 10 languages while a world map highlights their homelands (using data relayed from ticket scans).

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