STL DPB ON THE ROAD - THE VESSEL, PART 2

The view of The Vessel that I posted yesterday was through a multistory window of the shopping center in Hudson Yards. This is inside of it, sort of the bottom of the inverted cone. The stairways up the structure are complex and long. The track in the center is an elevator, although a terribly slow one. It carries six people and makes only one trip every 15 minutes. They let me use it on a previous trip when I was having back problems and was hobbling around on a cane. Looks cool, though. 

Gotta shoot some new local material one of these days.        

STL DPB ON THE ROAD - THE VESSEL

The West Side of Manhattan has a recent, huge and expensive real estate development called Hudson Yards. It contains several very tall buildings, one of which has the overlook called The Edge, which I think we will come to. The central plaza contains this sculpture, for want of a better word, called The Vessel. The Escher-y network of stairways lets you walk to the top, not quite seen here from within an overpriced shopping mall. (You have to pass by Cartier on the way out.) It is closed to visitors, for now, while they figure out what to do about the rash of suicides.