Biggest Ferris wheel coming to New York | Arab News

https://www.arabnews.com/biggest-ferris-wheel-coming-new-york NEW YORK: New York’s mayor says the city will wheel out the world’s biggest Ferris wheel in 2015, overtaking the current record holder in Singapore and leaving the London Eye in the dust. The 625 foot (190 meter) high wheel is planned for the Big Apple’s least developed borough, Staten Island, across the water from Manhattan’s Financial District. It will be able to carry 1,440 people at a time. Construction should finish in 2014, with rides starting the following year, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday