One World Observatory
Observation deck on America's tallest tower, with glass-floor views over the five boroughs.
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This guide to One World Observatory follows ironworker Mike O'Reilly, who wrote a message to his father on a steel beam while building the tower, and the family history behind it: his father helped raise the original Twin Towers, then was paralyzed in a 1985 fall on a nearby construction site. You'll hear about the other ironworkers who worked beside him, including a fourth-generation steelworker whose own father had placed the original towers, and why the finished building rises to exactly one thousand, seven hundred seventy-six feet. It traces the SkyPod elevator ride up through five hundred years of the city's history.
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