All About New York's New Icon: The Vessel
Half work of art and half tourist attraction, The Vessel h It has been an instant success. Every day, especially on weekends, hundreds of adventurers come to Hudson Yards to ascend to the skies of Manhattan climbing its endless stairs.
It is a true magnet for the eyes located in this new neighbourhood, to the west of the island, consisting of five office skyscrapers, a shopping center with a Spanish food market called Little Spain, and an impressive cultural center whose façade moves on wheels.
The author of this monument is Thomas Heatherwick , responsible for other amazing structures such as the Olympic cauldron for the London 2012 games.
English architect designed for New York this network of stairs in the shape of a pot (hence the English name).
The Vessel, or the stairs of New York
Despite the fact that everyone already knows her as The Vessel for a while she had another much more literal title, New York's Staircase (or the stairs of New York).
This has not freed him from all kinds of nicknames from the imagination of New Yorkers: beehive, vase, corset, ribcage and even shawarma.
Given the variety of nicknames, the company that owns Hudson Yards has opened a contest to find the best name for him. If one has occurred to you, don't shut it up. Share it here.
The Vessel, the new icon of New York
The Vessel (let's call it that until further notice) is a real gem. And we say it from an architectural but also an economic point of view: It has cost 200 million dollars.
It rises more than 45 meters from the ground and is made up of 154 flights of stairs connecting 80 landings.
The monument has 2,500 steps but do not worry because you do not have to overcome all of them. From the ground to the top floor there are 16 levels and, if you go up without wandering through the maze of steps (something difficult to avoid, to be honest), you will have at most 240 steps ahead (which you will then have to go down) .
At the base there are four paths that branch out to the heights. After choosing your own adventure staying with one, make sure to take a good spin to take in the views.
As an observatory it is nothing of the other Thursday. being lower than skyscrapers around you you'll have to strain to see the Empire State Building and One World Trade Center.
The monument has 2,500 steps, but you don't have to walk them all
What you will see in the foreground is the new cultural center, called The Shed, and the Hudson River (before the extension of the neighborhood erases it from the horizon) .
Of course, it is as spectacular inside as it is outside. The Vessel is covered by copper colored steel panels to give it a warmer tone and that, at the same time, reflect everything around it.
The structure is located in Hudson Yards, the new neighborhood of the Big Apple
Enjoying the sculpture is free but a ticket system has been put in place to ensure that there will never be more than 700 people at a time, the maximum allowed.
On the Hudson Yards website you can make your reservation two exact weeks before the day you want to upload. If you miss the tickets, you have two more options. Try online the same day from 8 in the morning (sometimes the reservation opens a little earlier) or show up there directly and queue.
Getting there by public transport is very easy. It takes you the purple line 7 to its last stop in Manhattan, Hudson Yards.
Going up to the sculpture is free but we advise you to reserve your ticket