One World Trade Center Elevator Shows New York’s History
The video, which will be shown to visitors on their way to the tower’s 102nd floor observatory when it opens to the public in late May, features a time-lapse panoramic view projected on all four walls showing the city being built up from the 1500s until the present day.
The 2 World Trade Center tower, one of the original twin towers brought down by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, makes a brief cameo toward the end of the film before disappearing.
“The event is certainly a key part of history,” David Checketts, chairman and chief executive of management company Legends Hospitality, told The New York Times. “We did not think you could ignore it. Having it appear in the year it did and disappear in the year it did was the respectful way of addressing the fact that it was part of the landscape.”
The elevator ascends at a top speed of about 23 mph.
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