🌃 ONE WORLD OBSERVATORY OPENING — 2015
ONE WORLD OBSERVATORY OPENING — 2015 Good evening, beautiful insomniacs, and welcome back to Nova After Dark. I’m your host, and boy, do I have a show for you tonight. So, fourteen years after 9/11, New York finally finished One World Trade Center and opened the One World Observatory to the public in 2015. And look, I want to be respectful here—this was a genuinely meaningful project. But let’s be honest: the naming process was WILD. “One World Observatory.” Do you know what that sounds like? Like a focus group of consultants got trapped in an elevator and just kept adding words until someone said, “That’s it! THAT’S the one!” They could’ve called it literally anything else. The Freedom Tower had a better name. They changed it! They were like, “No, let’s rebrand this as the One World Observatory,” which sounds like a United Nations gift shop decided to open a Ferris wheel. ...