But will it still move in case it needs to fight medieval ghosts?.

Frikkin statue of Liberties with freaking lasers strapped to their frikkin heads!

FAIL!

pew pew pew

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Inappropriate to even consider reopening at this time! Miss Liberty should remain closed until American gets back!

now we can bring back Woody Allen's classic joke about how the last woman he was inside was the Statue of Liberty

/rim shot

...and installing a Starbucks in her vagina.

I've been up to the top of the crown and it isn't worth it. You spend an hour and a half going up steep stairs in a closed space with no insulation for a 30 second look out the windows before you're shoved back down the stairs.

Pic of the original mouth mounted design

The crown is meh. If you want to impress me, reopen the torch.

outlawmoogle:I've been up to the top of the crown and it isn't worth it. You spend an hour and a half going up steep stairs in a closed space with no insulation for a 30 second look out the windows before you're shoved back down the stairs.

Thank you! It is a complete waste of time. You also neglected to mention that you are either staring at someones ass or the infuriating graffiti on the walls the entire way up to the top.

You're much better off riding the Staten Island Ferry than going through the hell that awaits all who visit the actual island.

imma firin' mah eyeball!!!!

I just went to the Statue of Liberty a week ago, the amount of security to enter the base of the statue is staggering. I've never seen more sophisticated bomb-sniffing or metal detecting equipment anywhere. It also took about an hour of waiting in line to get in there.

outlawmoogle:I've been up to the top of the crown and it isn't worth it. You spend an hour and a half going up steep stairs in a closed space with no insulation for a 30 second look out the windows before you're shoved back down the stairs.

Sounds like Space Mountain, but I'd do it again.

/and again
//and again

Oh, and speaking of terrorism I found this...

"Weiner, a member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, helped arrange a congressional hearing in September on reopening the crown."

Weiner.

She already saved it once. Assign her permanently and watch the tourist numbers skyrocket.

[gleefully reads TFA]

DAMMIT SUBMITTER, DO NOT TEASE ME LIKE THAT!

/would have been awesome

I thought the crown had always been open to the public. There is also a stairway going up to the torch but that hasn't been open to the public for a long time.

I expected it to be bigger.

Having been to the crown once, i have to say it's not all that exciting. All the movies you've seen that have scenes in the crown (think X-men/Ghostbusters 2) show it as being a much larger space than it actually is. In reality it's an agonizingly slow climb up a narrow winding staircase so you can stand on a 4 foot long platform and look out the window for a few seconds before doing it all in reverse.

That being said, I'm glad I had the opportunity to do it. And I'd probably do it again. It's the friggin' Statue of Liberty, for cryin' out loud!

/just make the stairs better before they re-open it.
//I'd LOVE to be able to go to the torch.

My family used to live in the Statue of Liberty. We had to move out once we filled the head with garbage.

Sightseers suffered heat exhaustion, shortness of breath, panic attacks, claustrophobia and fear of heights...

...and the heartbreak of psoriasis..

Is she naked under that toga?

If you look carefully under the toga, you can tell the statue was not born female.

View from the crown, looking NE (taken Nov. 1988):

View from the crown, looking up to the bottom of the torch (taken Nov.1988):

I'm glad I got to go to the top of the torch when I was a kid back in the 70s. Maybe to an adult it's "not all that" but when I was a kid I thought it was pretty exciting.

Never got to the top of the WTC, though.

Giant Robot not the lease bit impressed

geekbikerskum:I'm glad I got to go to the top of the torch when I was a kid back in the 70s. Maybe to an adult it's "not all that" but when I was a kid I thought it was pretty exciting.

Never got to the top of the WTC, though.


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It was way up there. Windy.


/they should build them again, not some stupid arse Freedom Tower.

How would they be able to make the crown ADA-compliant? I don't think there's an elevator in there.

Aulus:View from the crown, looking up to the bottom of the torch (taken Nov.1988):

Thank you now I will never have to waste my time trying to take a trip there.

sparkeyjames:Aulus:View from the crown, looking up to the bottom of the torch (taken Nov.1988):

Thank you now I will never have to waste my time trying to take a trip there.



I did many many years ago. It is exactly as you would imagine. Very tight, very obstructed views.

More or less just that you did it was all that good about it.

Everyone raise your hand who has actually missed not being able to climb all the way up into Liberty's crown, torch or whatever.

Yeah, I thought so.

Meh, I made the climb back in the 80's... It was pretty much as described by others... 2 hours of sweltering heat pressed between obnoxious tourists for a 30-second peek out of a window.

The Empire State building was better. They didn't have the "safety barriers" back then, so you could even look over a railing down at the street below.

As for the ADA thing, I'm pretty sure there's a way around the elevator requirement when you're talking about historical monuments built before a certain time period.

I usually just steal a chopper and jump out at the crown.

/Happiness Is...
//land

Links:I usually just steal a chopper and jump out at the crown.

When I was at the Statue last week, there were two military choppers hot-dogging it in the harbor and around the Statue of Liberty. I'm not sure what the point of the exercise was, I know that it was unnecessary and scary to have them buzz the statue and the ferries carting people to the island. Their conduct was the opposite of what I expected.

Yeah, it's really not worth it. I went to the statue a few months before Sept. 11th with my girl scout troop, and I all I remember is it was really crowded, hot & smelly, and i had to pee really bad. I don't even know if I ended up looking out the crown because it was such a windy day we were rocking back and forth.

I think I cried a little.

/atleast I went to the top, unlike most of the sissy girls in my troop.

=)