World Trade Center

World Center Hotel Offers Hotel Rooms With A Ground Zero View

A new hotel in New York City offers a chance to view the construction at Ground Zero up close. The new World Center Hotel in New York officially opened up this week on the southern edge of the World Trade Center rectangle. Many of the hotel's 169 rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the building site. For the next few years, the hotel hopes that the construction, instead of being a negative, will actually be a draw, luring leisure and business travelers who want to feel close to the rebirth of this area of the city.

Rates start at $199 for rooms at the hotel, a very reasonable price for New York City. Some rooms have been made into corporate apartments for extended stays. There is a private restaurant and club on the 20th floor. Guests have complimentary access to the View of the World Terrace Club which has views of the Hudson River and rising National 9/11 Memorial & Museum and Freedom Tower. This setting offers year-round indoor/outdoor dining terrace, a bar with windows overlooking downtown New York and a lounge area. There are also work stations and meeting rooms which can be reserved. City residents can become a member of the club.

Not everyone is a fan of the new hotel, some question why you would want to be close to a site where so many people lost their lives. But millions of tourists visit the site each year and the hotel's unique position offers better views of the rebuilding.

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Twin Towers Commemorated in Diamonds

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Jewelry

While the size of this picture is a little unusual for Luxist, there is no other way to showcase the tremendous amount of detail that went into the construction of this piece. The Twin Towers was designed by Nayna Mehta in memory of those who died in 9/11 and to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the JA New York Show, which began this week. The Towers has an 18K gold base and 14,080 diamonds decorating it, for a total weight 255 carats. Overall, 38 designers and technicians were involved in putting the piece together, all after trying to find diamonds of the proper quality and weight demanded by the designer. Eventually, Mehta intends to sell the piece and will donate a portion of the proceeds to victims from the collapse of the World Trade Center.

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