Description
Edge is the observation deck at the top of 30 Hudson Yards, a skyscraper on Manhattan's West Side: a triangular terrace that juts out into the air from the 100th floor, about 335 meters above the street, with glass walls and a glass floor over the void.
The highlight is the outdoor sky deck, which sticks out 24 meters from the south side of the tower like the prow of a ship. It is described as the highest outdoor sky deck in the Western Hemisphere, with views in every direction over the Manhattan skyline and the Hudson River.
Its edges are glass walls 2.7 meters high, slanted outward, so whoever leans against them hangs, in effect, over the city. At the tip of the triangle a glass floor looks straight down 345 meters to the street, for those with the nerve to stand on it.
Before reaching the open air, visitors walk through a sequence of immersive installations of light, color and sound: one turns the energy of the city into waves of light, another is a cave of shifting crystal-like forms, another a luminous, fragmented version of the skyline.
One floor up, on the 101st, there are a restaurant and bars with the same view. Since indoor and outdoor spaces sit side by side, the visit works in any weather, and on some evenings from spring to autumn the deck turns into a rooftop with DJs.
The building itself, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, rises to 390 meters, the tallest of the Hudson Yards development, a new district built on a platform over a working rail yard. The protruding deck has led some critics to compare the tower's profile to a duck.
The lobby, home to shops and restaurants, holds a work by the Spanish artist Jaume Plensa: 11 stainless steel spheres hanging from the ceiling, a symbol of global unity. Next door stand the Vessel, the Shed and the northern end of the High Line, so the deck fits easily into a walk along the old railway.
Edge opened on March 11, 2020, and closed just two days later because of the COVID-19 pandemic, reopening only that September.
The highlight is the outdoor sky deck, which sticks out 24 meters from the south side of the tower like the prow of a ship. It is described as the highest outdoor sky deck in the Western Hemisphere, with views in every direction over the Manhattan skyline and the Hudson River.
Its edges are glass walls 2.7 meters high, slanted outward, so whoever leans against them hangs, in effect, over the city. At the tip of the triangle a glass floor looks straight down 345 meters to the street, for those with the nerve to stand on it.
Before reaching the open air, visitors walk through a sequence of immersive installations of light, color and sound: one turns the energy of the city into waves of light, another is a cave of shifting crystal-like forms, another a luminous, fragmented version of the skyline.
One floor up, on the 101st, there are a restaurant and bars with the same view. Since indoor and outdoor spaces sit side by side, the visit works in any weather, and on some evenings from spring to autumn the deck turns into a rooftop with DJs.
The building itself, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, rises to 390 meters, the tallest of the Hudson Yards development, a new district built on a platform over a working rail yard. The protruding deck has led some critics to compare the tower's profile to a duck.
The lobby, home to shops and restaurants, holds a work by the Spanish artist Jaume Plensa: 11 stainless steel spheres hanging from the ceiling, a symbol of global unity. Next door stand the Vessel, the Shed and the northern end of the High Line, so the deck fits easily into a walk along the old railway.
Edge opened on March 11, 2020, and closed just two days later because of the COVID-19 pandemic, reopening only that September.