Elevator Ride At One World Trade Center Lets You Relive 500 Years of NY History

Now you can relive over 500 hundred years of New York's history in less than a minute. Five special elevators servicing the observatory atop the new 1 World Trade Center will feature a three-dimensional time-lapse panorama, on three walls, of the elevator cabs, displaying 515 years of history unfolding at the tip of Manhattan Island.

The One World Observatory will open to the public on May 29. The video starts in year is 1500, as you board elevator is 55 feet below ground. As it rises, time quickly advances...showing the viewer the early marshlands, and then the first European settlers. The journey continues through the British colonial era, the rise and fall of prominent landmarks of the 19th and early 20th centuries.