STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out

STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
STATUE OF LIBERTY PICTURES: Rare Views, Inside and Out
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Now with safer, higher railings, a refurbished spiral staircase, pictured in 2004, leads visitors through the Statue of Liberty's guts to its neck. From there a smaller staircase—which reopens on the Fourth of July, 2009—leads into the crown.

Due to evacuation concerns, crown access will be restricted to 240 visitors per day—a far cry from the pre-9/11 limit, noted National Park Service spokesperson Mindi Rambo.

"It used to be, you take a step and you wait, you take a step and you wait ... your nose against the spine of the person in front of you."
—Photograph by Jennifer Szymaszek/AP
 

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