Statue of Liberty park ranger Lance Williams looks out the windows inside the crown of the statue in this May 20, 2009, photo in New York. Next year, the statue will close for nine months to a ...

The statue is scheduled to close in October 2011, after its 125th anniversary, to create a secondary stairwell down from the pedestal. Right now, tourists go up one side and down another.

To book tours of the Statue of Liberty, Liberty Island and Ellis Island, go to www.statueoflibertytickets.com. Crown tours are sold out through August and must be booked weeks in advance. Cost: $28.

On the 12 acres of Liberty Island (formerly Bedloe’s Island), you can roam the museum inside the statue’s pedestal (which includes facsimiles of her face and feet), ride an elevator (or climb ...

That Statue of Liberty gets a new emergency elevator system in fall 2012. Few national icons are as recognized and revered worldwide as the Statue of Liberty. So when you’re tasked with the job of ...

There is no elevator service, and those wishing to see the view from atop Lady Liberty's head must climb 162 steps in close proximity to others, according to the National Park Service.

A $27 million renovation to the Statue of Liberty includes a new emergency elevator designed using Siemens’ TIA portal. The safety retrofit process used for this new elevator design holds numerous ...

The renovations include new staircases to allow visitors to better traverse the statue’s pedestal and observation platform, as well as an emergency elevator. Statue of Liberty Superintendent ...

The alarms caused people in the statue part of a throng of visitors to Liberty Island that swells to 15,000 a day in the summer to descend stairways to get out, Ms. Rambo said.

The Statue of Liberty was designated a National Monument in 1924 and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1984. In 1956, Bedloe’s Island was renamed Liberty Island by a joint resolution in Congress.