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Half work of art and half tourist attraction, The Vessel has been an instant success. Every day, especially on weekends, hundreds of adventurers flock to Hudson Yards to ascend to the skies of Manhattan by climbing its seemingly endless staircase.
It is a real eye-catcher located in this new neighborhood on the west side of the island, which consists of five office skyscrapers, a shopping center with a Spanish food market called Little Spain and an impressive cultural center whose facade 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.
The English architect designed this network of stairs in the shape of a vase for New York (hence the English name).
Although everyone knows it as The Vessel, for a while it had another, much more literal title, New York's Staircase.
This has not spared him from all sorts of nicknames that came from the imagination of New Yorkers: beehive, vase, corset, ribcage and even shawarma.
The Vessel is a true gem. And we say that from an architectural point of view, but also from an economic one: it cost 200 million dollars.
It rises more than 45 meters from the ground and is made up of 154 flights of stairs that connect 80 landings.
The monument has 2,500 steps, but don't worry, you don't have to climb them all. From the ground to the top floor, there are 16 levels, and if you climb without wandering through the maze of steps (which is difficult to avoid, to be honest), you'll only have a maximum of 240 steps ahead of you (which you'll then have to descend).
