A limited-time Ferris Wheel opened in New York’s Times Square on Wednesday, August 25 trying to lure tourists as it bounces back from the pandemic.
The 110-foot-tall ride is giving one of the most instagrammable overviews of the city in a two-week lifetime experience that is open from August 25 to September 12.
POV: You’re riding a FERRIS WHEEL IN TIMES SQUARE ? pic.twitter.com/mfijNZCIE0
— Times Square (@TimesSquareNYC) August 25, 2021
According to Times Square Wheel’s website, the giant Ferris wheel is “the crossroads of the world as never seen before.”
Take a ride at the crossroads of the world!
A ferris wheel is coming to Times Square, and you can't beat the view.
Thank you to @TimesSquareNYC President Tom Harris for your creativity, innovation and love for the greatest city in the world. pic.twitter.com/3QvX7iRRPU
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) August 24, 2021
Tourists can “experience sensory overload by billions of pixels as you soar 110 feet through a canyon of spectacular billboards,” it added.
It’s been a while since NYC Times Square had a Ferris Wheel. It was in 1946 when its first Ferris Wheel was erected to aid the March of Dimes. And it was in 2015, when Toys R Us, a 65-foot-tall Ferris wheel, closed.
A brief history of Times Square Ferris Wheels: 1946, 2001-15, 2021 (rendering). pic.twitter.com/s1wGysFYpN
— Stanford Friedman (@BroadwayCrit) August 20, 2021
Tickets for the ride are now available at https://timessquarewheel.nyc/.
