As someone has had anxiety disorders and phobias about height, this looks like a torture device designed by sadists
Genuinely fascinating that this was built. I feel like anyone could have told the architect that this structure is off-putting, even scary. No one has ever had nightmares about the Bean. NYC really needed the staircase from Pathologic?
I have
Yeah, there isn't enough money in the world to get me in that thing
Didn't someone commit suicide off that thing?
3 people in the first year it was open, prompting it to be closed. They then reopened having implemented new rules that people had to go in groups for safety, but within 2 months a 4th suicide happened, a 14 year old who jumped while with their parents. So it closed again.
Real cursed structure.
I think that's why they closed it lol
a few did
the fuck is this? just stairs and landings?
What is this thing other than a giant middle finger to wheelchair users?
A nexus by which The Old God's call forth their chosen harvest.
It’s also a middle to people who walk on the high line
Maybe we could do a little better about putting up a content warning(CW) when discussing self-harm here.
Yes. I'm sorry I didn't CW my comment. Probably any discussion of the vessel needs a CW because that's like it's big thing.
cool hope it burns down
Is it just stairs?
I give it 3 weeks till someone kills the self on it. Also why no wheelchair access? Somebody should [redacted] the shitty architect who made it
It was originally closed because a few people successfully did just that.
i think from memory it has one elevator
I mean yeah, technically there is accessibility options, but the main thing is being able to manouver around the structure. That's not something you get if you can't climb a flight of stairs. You see this a lot with buildings where the architect will design a nice looking stairway as the main ebterence, then have accessibility as an afterthought and shove in a wheelchair access area way in the back
fuckin thing's gonna give NYC the sand plague
It's like the senate from the Star Wars prequels
ghostbusters ass building
This just reminds me of that scene from Inception
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