7 World Trade Center

It is fun to walk around the World Trade Center especially if you are not a local. It is beautiful and even better at night with the lights! It’s a nice experience you won’t forget.

Best view of the city for either Northwest, or Southeast corner.

The barriers frequently break or try to eat me. But amazing views from our office so can’t complain too much!

It’s a very nice building and quite modern compared to many buildings in NYC. Unfortunately, it will be trumped by all the new buildings sprucing up around it, especially it’s neighbor WTC 1. The one cool thing that you don’t see too often in other buildings is that you have to select the floor you are going to outside of the elevator instead of inside.
Also, when you go upstairs, you have spectacular views of NYC. When you go to different sides of the building you get awesome different views of the city and the WTC construction site as well. Although, one gripe is that the lobby is pretty basic looking and there’s not much there other than a security desk and a big rolling screen, but at night it glows purple and can’t be ignored if you’re not too far away.

I had an event on the 40^th floor for work. They accommodated a large crowd (300+) really effectively. They set up two side rooms for people to sit and eat their breakfast (from the buffet) and then set up the large room with normal stadium style seating. It worked very well for our event.
I didn’t like that when you sit on the right side of the conference room you are kind of trapped. I couldn’t get out to the left to use the bathroom unless I climbed over about 30 people so I got out to the right and went through the fire exit door to get to the bathroom. They kind of yelled at me for doing that (even though the young chorus performing was standing back there so I knew it wouldn’t set off any alarms) but what were my other options?
I agree that the elevators are awesome. You tell it the floor you are going to and an elevator comes to get you. You can’t change your mind in the elevator because there are no buttons! Love it though.

Architecturally, the new WTC7 is a lot better than the old one.
I want only inside once, for The Moles Student Day, and we met on an unfinished floor near the top. It provided great views of the surrounding area.
My favorite thing about WTC7 is the elevator bank. It is computerized, so you enter your floor number on a keypad, and then it tells you which elevator to go wait out. This way it is optimized to group people by destination. What a great concept.

I’m Unilocaling a building? I was there for a meeting and it was a breathtaking experience.
I’m Unilocaling an elevator ride? So after getting security checked, I walked behind the glass wall and found the bay for D elevators. I just punched in the floor I was going to and «ding,» D-​3 opens. I get inside, oh sh*t, there are no buttons. Before you can say «Ghost Busters,» I’m on my floor! Cool!
I’m Unilocaling the view? I’ve been to the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, for that matter, the Tokyo Tower, but 7 WTC? They should charge admission! I saw almost a 360 degree view of New York and it was beautiful. Yet, looking down, the stark reality of ⁹⁄₁₁ and the rebuilding of Ground Zero left me speechless.
I’m Unilocaling the E Subway? So close by, it was the perfect ride back to Midtown. Definitely, visiting the 7 World Trade Center is an «E Ticket» experience!

I happen to be a big fan of Jenny Holzer. Inside the lobby, she did an installation of scrolling text of different poetic accounts of living in New York City.
I happen to really like it.