Posted July 12, 200816 yr A few pics from the air. I tried to do this in DC, Boston, LA and Cleveland. When on approach or take off to Cleveland I always seem to be sitting on the side with a view of the lake or we approach from the southwest. In DC or Boston im on the side that shows the terminal not the city. In LA we always go over the ocean and circle back. So all i've got in NYC. The pics are over the course of the last six or seven months. On approach to LGA most flight fly up the west side of Manhattan, following the Hudson river, turn east over lower westchester then fly down the East side of The Bronx and land at LGA. The quality isn't the stuff of MayDay, but I thought they might be interesting. Here we go. Approaching NYC and off to the east we see the Western Portion of the Rockaways!! Sea Gate, Coney Island (center), Brighton & Manhattan beaches (at the top of the picture) Bath Beach and Bensonhurst Fort Hamilton Sunset Park in the front, Greenwood Cemetary, then Prospect Park, then the Prospect/Lefferts Gardens and Windgate neighborhoods. Whoa..... Sunset Park (the bottom) and Park Slope (top of picture) and a little bit of Red Hook & Gowanus Cobble hill toward the bottom of the pic, Downtown Brooklyn's Financial District in the middle of the pic, fort Greene & Clinton Hills in the upper portion of the picture. The Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges. Fulton, Vinegar Hill and the Navy Yard on the Brooklyn Side. China Town & the Lower Eastside on the Manhattan side. The Manhattan Financial District Midtown Manhattan, Central Park and the Upper Eastside, Harlen and The South Bronx The Village and NYC Midtown South and Madison Square Garden Wards Island at the top, Upper Eastside and Roosevelt Island in the middle and midtown at the bottom. Hunters Point & Greenpoint My office on the Upper Westside Central Park Cathedral Parkway in the Morningside Hts. section of Harlem LaGuardia at the top, Astoria section of Queens, in the upper middle, Roosevelt Island, with the Triboro Bridge and Amtrak line in the lower middle and Harlem at the bottom. Central Harlem. I can see my house. The High Bridge section fo The Bronx featuring Yankee Stadium I & II Sweeping view of the bronx from the Hudson to Pelham Bay/Orchard Beach I have no idea where the hell I am in these pictures. We were turning, I think we're in lower Westchester, looking south towards the cross bronx express way bridge which goes between The Bronx and New Jersey. Coop City Landing to the East of Rykers Island. Shea Stadium & Citi Field The US Tennis Center in Flushing Queens
July 13, 200816 yr Neat! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 13, 200816 yr Weak! http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b251/TREO123/NYC%20-%20From%20the%20Air/DSC01190.jpg ;) Awesome set, MTS.
July 14, 200816 yr Cool shots! Except for the almost always being significantly delayed part, flying into NYC is the best.
July 15, 200816 yr very very cool. i especially liked seeing both sets of stadiums from above since i 'toured' them recently.
July 16, 200816 yr What a whirlwind tour from above. You sure do know your NYC boroughs and what not. Thanks for sharing.
July 16, 200816 yr What a whirlwind tour from above. You sure do know your NYC boroughs and what not. Thanks for sharing. I fly over them enough to know. Beside going to LGA, going up the Hudson and turning right is the route the majority of the time. On weekends, the planes land west to east and fly directly over 127/128/129/130/ streets as those streets line up with LGA's east-west runway. The planes fly so low you can actually see the landing gear and damn near in the windows of the plane.
September 13, 200915 yr Had some heavy travel this week. I tried 3 times to get a pic of manhattan from top to bottom. I'm too slow. Take of on the East-West Runway Randall's/Ward's Island Central Harlem I tried this next shot in two different flight. :whip: almost this time The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Downtown Brooklyn and the Financial District Williamsburg Hunters Point and Midtown The 7 Line on Queens Blvd, then turning onto Roosevelt Ave.
September 14, 200915 yr Super awesome. New York is an almost incomprehensibly huge city to me, and air photos like this certainly reinforce that perception.
September 14, 200915 yr Nice, I lived just off the right side of your last pic (off of Roosevelt Ave) for the past 4 months. I had a girlfriend who lived in the building in the dead center of the photo.
September 14, 200915 yr Nice, I lived just off the right side of your last pic (off of Roosevelt Ave) for the past 4 months. I had a girlfriend who lived in the building in the dead center of the photo. aiight playa playa
September 14, 200915 yr Great shots... Funny, I was just reading something about Manahattan... Have a look at this link showing what Manhattan looked like in 1609 on the cover of national Geographic. From an environmental/ecological standpoint, what has become in a mere 400 years is painful. Reminds me of Soylent Green. http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/09/manhattan/miller-text Am I allowed to include a link?
September 14, 200915 yr It took 10 trips to New York before I saw where the tracks rise from Park Ave. and the abrupt transition between the Upper East Side and Harlem. I think Park Ave. alone is hard to comprehend, even when you're there, since it's so long and the track portal is so far north it's easy to forget that there are a half dozen railroad tracks beneath it. Downtown Brooklyn looks like it's changed a lot. I remember joking that it looked like downtown Lima or Ft. Wayne with its one old skyscraper. I haven't been there in 10 years but will be there next month for a wedding reception.
September 14, 200915 yr I think Metro North is only four tracks wide when it goes above-ground at around 110th Street or so... When it gets down to Grand Central Terminal, though, it's much wider and on two levels... And that's not counting the East Side Access project. Jake, I sent you a PM.
September 14, 200915 yr I think Metro North is only four tracks wide when it goes above-ground at around 110th Street or so... When it gets down to Grand Central Terminal, though, it's much wider and on two levels... And that's not counting the East Side Access project. Jake, I sent you a PM. The MN is four track just south of 149 St/Park Ave in the BX until the Waldorf=Astoria hotel. Then it expands to several track on two levels.
Create an account or sign in to comment