This past weekend, my S.O. and I took a trip to NYC to celebrate his birthday. Being the wonderful boyfriend he is, he let me have the window seat). This set is of our arrival into the city:

 

A grey icky day as we pull away from the terminal:

 

Within minutes we flew above the cloud cover and there was nothing to see other than clouds and blue sky. I had thought I should just stow my camera since after all, how many shots of sky and clouds do I need?

 

But then as we descended, I saw this - I think it's Brooklyn. I wish the weather had been better, I did my best but my camera isn't a fan of overcast days:

 

And then I saw the Metrotech buildings in the foreground and thought - well cool, at least I got to see some of Brooklyn...

 

And then the plane started to bank to the left (northeast):

 

My vocabulary was reduced to "Oh my god, oh my god!" and "Holy sh!t!!!"

 

 

 

Forest City developed the new New York Times tower in the center:

 

Sigh.... what a way to start a trip:

 

 

A glimpse of Central Park:

 

Central Park, Midtown, and Queens in the distance:

 

Landmark skyscrapers aplenty in this shot:

 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art on the edge of Central Park:

 

The Upper East Side:

 

At this point I wasn't sure exactly where we were flying over:

 

 

 

With all the humidity and haze, this pic looked better in black and white, imho:

 

 

More black and white:

 

A nice panorama as we start to touch down at LaGuardia:

 

Manhattan from the runway:

 

Lower Manhattan in the distance:

 

The Citibank Tower (Queens) welcomes you to the city:

 

New construction along the East River:

 

A typical NYC skyscraper canyon:

 

Almost at our hotel, the Chrysler Building was across the street:

 

The view from the room was alright - I could practically spit and hit the Chanin Building (no, I didn't try):

 

Next up, Grand Central and more! :-)

Way cool!

 

Notwithstanding hazy overcast, the aerials are great! Several years ago when I saw that view on approach to Laguardia, I was too stunned to think of reaching for my camera. I just sat there with my nose pressed to the window and my jaw in my lap.

Spectacular! What a sight! Well, sights.

 

That canyon shot is unbelievable.

At first, I wondered if you were saying "Oh my god" because you thought you were flying a little too low over Manhattan... Sorry, that day more than five years ago still haunts me. As long as you stayed above the Empire State Building!

 

Great photos.

Nice!

yay for the clouds breaking right on cue -- and you were ready for it. great shots.

 

this is the south bronx. the highways are the bruckner at the top and the major deegan below.

the island at the top is rikers. you can see laguardia above to it.

wow -- on a personal note i can see 3 out of 4 of my bronx work sites in this shot.

 

this one is the almost unbelievable co-op city.

the planes basically turn back south again around there for the laguardia approach.

always a smart move to fly into laguardia instead of newark imo  -- we can sure see why in this thread! ;)

 

 

 

Are all of those housing projects? Isolation at its finest.

^no, its not a pj. co-op city is mixed income & middle class.

 

also, it was formerly the sight of freedomland amusement park & an airport before that.

 

 

They should call it Little North Korea.

other way around -- north korea looks like that.

 

co-op city is an o.g. of massive brutalist tower in the park mentality.

 

no thanks for me either.

 

WOW....what a fantastic set of pics!!!  I really need to take that same flight into Laguardia...just breathtaking!