You can see the construction of the new Freedom Tower as the new building with the blue band around it.

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From the roof garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, you have a spectacular view across Central Park and the skyline of New York City. The museum, also know as The Met, is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park.

From the entrance near Guggenheim Museum, you enter the jogging track of 1.52 mile (2.54 km) around the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, also know as the Central Park Reservoir. It covers 106 acres (43 ha) and holds over 1.000.000.000 US gallons of fresh water.

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The first shot is taken from our Helicopter flight.

And one from behind …

And finally one from the front …

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The first picture if framed from the south. In the right bottom corner you can see a part from Governors Island and above it Brooklyn Bridge.

One of the few images I took from New Jersey. The tall building on the left is the Goldman Sachs Tower, which is the tallest building in New Jersey, and the tallest in the United States of any building not in its metropolitan area’s largest city.

Last picture for today is a view on Harlem River with his bridges (from bottom to top), Macombs Dam Bridge, 145th Street Bridge, Madison Avenue Bridge & Park Avenue Bridge.

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But to start, still a portrait picture of the Empire State Building, shot from the street up. The weather was a lot better on the second day.

On the second day we also booked a helicopter flight from Downtown Manhattan Heliport. We were there early and went for a walk to Pier 16 in the East River. From Harbour Lights, you have a spectacular view on Brooklyn Bridge. In the following days I will post pictures from the helicopter flight and from Brooklyn Bridge. Today, you see the opposite view from Harbour Lights, back to Downtown Manhattan Heliport. In front you can see the Wavertree, a historic iron-hulled sailing ship, at the South Street Seaport. On the left you can find the largest building in New York by floor area, located at 55 Water Street. The American International Building on the right in the background is the fifth tallest building in New York City.

Last picture for today is the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. This museum is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. It’s designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the second museum opened by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

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Middle left at the first picture you can see the a bright building with a unique 45 degree angled top, the Citigroup Center. It is one of the ten tallest skyscrapers in New York City located at 53rd street between Lexington Avenue and Third Avenue. The also bright building on the right of it is 599 Lexington Avenue. Right of that, with the three black boxes above the lighted windows, is 345 Park Avenue.

Most people will recognize the building below, Empire State Building, an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City. The lightning changes very often and we saw a Red/White/Blue in honor of Boys Scouts of America, 100th Anniversary Celebrations and the National Scout Jamboree.

The last picture is a streetview with a very slow shutter speed.

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The first one is from the Safra National Bank of New York building located on the corner of Fifth Avenue and between 45th Street West and 46th Street West. The mirror windows give a nice view on the opposite buildings.

Next a detail pictures of the Hearst Tower located between 56th Street West and 57th Street West on Eight Avenue near Columbus Circle. It’s the world headquarters of the Hearst Corporation which publish magazines like Cosmopolitan, Esquire and many others. Two architects, Joseph Urban (Six Story Base, completed in 1928; Tower, completed eight years later) and Norman Foster (New Tower, completed in 2006), worked on it. Hearst Tower was the first building completed after September 11, 2001 and received the 2006 Emporis Skyscraper Award.

The last picture is from One Madison Park, a luxury residential condominium tower located at the junction of Madison Avenue and 23rd Street East. The building was designed by the architectural firm Cetra/Ruddy.

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