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Can you show me one reference or picture of this service elevator you keep talking about? I really would like to know where they are putting it.

Maybe you should try reading sometime. Like the cover story from Popular Science, July 1986. They have both a schematic of the statue upgrades on page 70 and a description of the emergency elevator in the text on page 110 of the article. But what do they know? They're just a national magazine that's been around almost 140 years. They couldn't possibly know as much as a jobless and unemployable man in his 60s who calls himself Snoopy.

What happened to the elevator that you said went to the crown? Did they remove it?

As I said before, the elevator only goes to the top of the pedestal.

hahahaaaa

immigrants risked death, fled the holocaust, families broken up, just to get here and see the statue

'the windows were FILTHY!!"

so good

Most people in the old country didn't even have windows, just oiled sheep skin. So why would they bitch if the windows were a little streaked?

wow, complaining that you were in the crown of the statue of liberty...

I climbed the steps years ago,and it was a waste. The windows were filthy, you couldn't see out of them, and there were rude people bhind us, who were actually pushing to get thier look. i think I was at the crown aboutn long enough to claim I'd gotten there.

I climbed up there about 17 years ago - same deal. Windows were filthy, could barely see out, slow climb up and down. It was purely to say I was up there.

All of a sudden, my idea for a visitor's center with high-definition live views on Imax-like screens doesn't seem as ridiculous as some think. Safe, secure, tremendous views in all directions rather than through some small windows, climate-controlled comfort, accessibility for the elderly and handicapped, tons of capacity for all of Liberty's visitors rather than a couple of hundred a day -- basically superior in every way except you won't get to tell your grandkids that you once hiked to the top.

I remember a few months back that you emphatically said you could take an elevator to the crown. What happened? Did they remove the elevator in the last few years when it was closed?

Your memory is shot. Try using the search function. What I wrote was that there is a small maintenance elevator to the crown installed in the 1986 renovation, not available for public use.

Yeah, that sounds like a must better idea. Or why not have some sort of simulation; walking up to the crown and looking out?

If you're one of the lucky ones who gets the lottery and can make it up the stairs. Too bad for the ones who can't get tickets, or septuagenarians or people in wheelchairs, with canes, walkers, crutches, etc. Right? Survival of the fittest?

I'll do it for the exercise if nothing else.