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„Top of the Rock“

There are several points in NYC you want to get up on. Four are probably the "most important" or the most popular: The Statue of Liberty, the OWO (One World Observatory), the Empire State Building and the Rockefeller Center. Two of them can be safely neglected.

You can see a lot from the Statue of Liberty, but not the Statue of Liberty. Even the visit of Liberty Island is not so spectacular. Let it. Apart from looking under the lady's dress or pushing through the overcrowded souvenir shop in high seasons or taking a look across Upper Bay from the lady after standing in line for a long time, there is nothing there. And you pay a lot of money for it.

Also, the view from the Empire State Building towards Central Park is not really exciting, a nice free view to the park is not really given. Looking in the other direction would certainly be nice, but even here it pays at least $40.

I decided for "Top of the Rock", the observation deck on two levels of Rockefeller Center. Also here the price is about 40 $. But you have an overview over Central Park, the street canyons of Mid-Town and the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan. And you don't see Rockefeller Center, which isn't really beautiful after all. :-)))

If you are not booking the VIP Tour, the One World Observatory is in a similar price range. At the beginning I was sceptical, because you are in closed rooms behind glass. I was thinking about reflections that make it difficult to take pictures. But it was good. A polarizing filter is useful, but it even works without it. You will be rewarded with a fantastic view of the Upper Bay, especially the mouth of the Hudson River, the East River, Ellis Island etc. And this at an angle, as if you were flying over it. But more about that later...

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4 comments

Jaap van 't Veen said:

Breathtaking; one of the best pictures I have ever seen of Manhattan.
5 years ago

Corinne Pommerell said:

And then to get up to the OWO there is this really nice Virtual-Reality-elevator ride, getting you from a dark cave in an even darker past up to the top at present time, and showing you the development of the City through the ages, quite well done
5 years ago

Christel Ehretsmann said:

belle symétrie et belle atmosphère brumeuse...
5 years ago ( translate )

Berny said:

thank you for the detailled information ;-)
5 years ago