[JasonParis]

Some pics from our travels to NYC last week...

Leaving Toronto Pearson on AC 704.

Not sure where this is exactly, but my guess would be somewhere around the White Plains/Yonkers area north of NYC.

The density starts to rise as our Embraer 175 starts to descend.

Crossing into Manhattan airspace.

Central Park, Upper East Side, Queens, etc.

Central Park, Upper East Side, Queensboro Bridge, Roosevelt Island, Queens, etc.

Empire State Building, Midtown South.

East Village, The Bowery and the Williamsburg Bridge.

Financial District of Lower Manhattan.

Lower Manhattan and Governors Island.

Abandoned piers in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn shipping piers, Governors Island, Lower Manhattan.

Brooklyn Heights, Lower Manhattan and New Jersey.

Two boroughs and two states!

Looking down over Queens.

Midtown Manhattan and Queens.

...and we've arrived!

Our MTA journey from LaGuardia (Queens) to Manhattan had us switching from the M60 bus to the N-train here at Astoria Blvd. Station.

The Triborough Bridge connects Queens to The Bronx to Manhattan.

MTA isn't the easiest to navigate, but we managed just fine.

Our hotel was located in the Lower Midtown/Flatiron District and was just a few blocks from this building you may know.

The Empire State Building. NYC's tallest.

The Empire State Building (cont.)

Rockefeller Center's GE Building.

Rockefeller Center's GE Building (cont.)

Inside Rockefeller Center.

Waiting for the elevator up to the "Top of the Rock."

Empire State Building, Lower Manhattan.

Looking south-west at Times Square including The Conde Nast Building (4 Times Square).

Looking south-east towards the MetLife (PanAm) Building, Chrysler Building, East River, etc.

Northern view of Central Park and beyond.

North-west towards Foster's Hearst Tower and Time Warner Center.

North-east view including Trump Tower on the left.

South-west view of Times Square and beyond.

Looking east at Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building.

Times Square, Hudson River and Jersey City, NJ.

Empire State Building, Lower Manhattan, Statue of Liberty, etc.

Midtown, Hell's Kitchen and Hoboken, NJ.

St. Patrick's Catherdral.

At the very top of the GE Buliding, you'll find this!

Elevator ride down 70 floors to the bottom of the rock.

Part II is here.

 

[Prometheus The Supremo]

wicked!!

 

[ShonTron]

Trying to compete with my LA and SF threads? Oh, well, then, UT is proud to present a bi-coastal selection of great pics!

Had a very similar fly in to New York back in Feb '05 on the approach into LGA. I love how the plane swoops over Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens before landing from the east. Of course in Feb 2005, those orange Gates (love 'em or hate 'em) were spread all over Central Park, really making the fly-in unique.

The next time I'm there, I'm definately doing the Rockefeller Center deck.

 

[Andrew3D]

All amazing shots, never thought about doing the Rock Top I bet the lines are way shorter then the 3 hr line I decided against at the ESB last time I went. Cool aerials and the elevator shot, gotta ask is there a glass floor?

 

[JasonParis]

We basically walked right onto the elevator for Top of the Rock. MUCH shorter than waiting to get up the ESB and arguably a better view.

No glass floor on the elevator, but a glass ceiling.

 

[ganjavih]

Always nice to see NYC pics. Don't think I could ever tire of the city. Lost track of how many times I've been there... two more visits planned in the next few months.

 

[Ronald]

Very impressive city, thanks for sharing!

 

[interchange42]

Love the out-the-window shots from the flight, and the over-the-city pics from Top of the Rock. I'll have to visit that next time I'm there - what a great vantage point!

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[Observer Walt]

Good pictures, especially the aerial views. Thanks for posting these.

 

[Long Island Mike]

Darkstar: Good NYC pix! On the fly-over of Manhattan in Picture#7 ESB and Manhattan S is Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village in the NE corner of that pic-a huge apartment complex that I once lived in-I moved out to LI with my family 40 years ago as a child back in 1967. The Top of the Rock was re-opened in recent years after being closed for many years in the GE building-formerly RCA. I have not been there myself-I will have to get there sometime on a nice clear day...LI MIKE

 

[Bogtrotter]

Those aerials are especially nice. I'll have to keep in mind the Rock's observation deck next time in NY, it 'might' be a good alternative to the lineups at ESB. Is that a glass-floored elevator? ...gulp.

thanks for the tour

 

[JasonParis]

It's a glass ceilinged elevator, but can still cause a big...gulp.