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[VIDEO] Above New York: Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island

2025-08-29T12:00:00-04:00

Gifted to the United States in 1885 to celebrate and commemorate our centennial anniversary the following year, the Statue of Liberty originally arrived in pieces, displayed around New York City to raise support for the financing of the pedestal. With a campaign and donation matching request led by newspaper tycoon Joseph Pulitzer, the fundraising efforts took over 10 years to determine a permanent location for the statue and to raise enough to pay for its pedestal, as the United States Congress refused to finance it.

Standing at just over 151-feet-tall, Lady Liberty is the tallest statue in the United States. She is mounted on the massive star shaped footprint and pedestal, which gives her a total height of 305-feet, 1-inch from ground level to torch, allowing her to be seen from anywhere with a clean line-of-sight in New York City and parts of New Jersey.

The Statue of Liberty National Monument sits on the aptly named Liberty Island and is managed by the United States National Park Service. The land was originally known to New Yorkers as Bedloe's Island, only being renamed to Liberty Island in 1956 by and act of the United Stated Congress. The island was private for a century following the Dutch surrender of Fort Amsterdam to the British in 1664, where the original owner, Captain Robert Needham, sold it to the namesake Isaac Bedloe. It shifted hands privately and to businesses until February 1758, when the City of New York purchased the island for one thousand pounds to hold terminally ill patients with infectious diseases.

After the United States won independence, the star-shaped Fort Wood was constructed on the island and was completed in 1811. Never used for battle, the aging fort was mostly dismantled for the mounting of the Statue of Liberty and pedestal, which maintained the original 11-point footprint for its foundation.

In this short aerial video from our Above New York series, see the Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island from a unique birds-eye-view on a gloomy day in New York Harbor. This is likely one of the last times you will see a drone video shot this close to the Statue of Liberty, as the FAA and DOI have recently imposed special restrictions on the proximity of flight to this, and other U.S. National Monuments. This video was captured before the new restrictions took effect.

Music: "Release" by Pogo

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[VIDEO] Above New York: Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island

2024-07-06T12:00:00-04:00

Music: "Release" by Pogo

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[WATCH] Above New York: Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island

2024-05-17T12:00:00-04:00

Music: "Release" by Pogo

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[VIDEO] Above New York: Statue of Liberty and Liberty Island

2022-01-18T12:00:00-05:00

Music: "Release" by Pogo

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[REPOST] Above New York: Aerial View of Greenpoint, Brooklyn

2019-10-24T16:00:00-04:00

Explore the neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn from a birds-eye view in this latest aerial video from our Above New York series.

This northmost Brooklyn neighborhood is bordered by the East River to the west, Newtown Creek to the north and east, and Williamsburg to the south. Once an industrial and low-income residential neighborhood, much of Greenpoint, especially along the waterfront, is being developed into fancy condos boasting magnificent views of the Manhattan skyline.

See all of Greenpoint from above in this stunning aerial video, along with visual landmarks such as Transmitter Park, the Pulaski Bridge and Newtown Creek, the Brooklyn Barge, Greenpoint Avenue and more.

The music featured in the video is Pryces — "New York"

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[REPOST] Above New York: Aerial View of Kips Bay, Murray Hill and Midtown East Along the River

2019-04-05T12:30:00-04:00

This past Sunday, Viewing NYC rose bright and early with hopes of capturing a beautiful sunrise hitting the skyscrapers of Midtown along the East River. The cloud cover prevented any purple and pink hues, but the aerial views were beautiful none-the-less. Enjoy!

The music in the video is from Jeff Kaale — "Nature"

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[REPOST] Above New York: Calvert Vaux Park

2019-04-01T17:00:00-04:00

Situated in Gravesend Bay, tucked behind Coney Island, Brooklyn's Calvert Vaux Park is one of the most unique parks in the City.

Named after designer Calvert Vaux, one of the designers of Central Park and dozens of other parks around the City, the park was not actually designed by its titular designer, rather exists as a tribute to him.

The park is built atop of sand, mud and rocks that were excavated from New York Harbor when building the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in 1959, and features walking paths, sports fields, green spans, and perhaps the most interesting, a collection of abandoned boats and structures just off the coast. Several decaying and rotted old wooden and fiberglass ships sit on the periphery, giving the park a spooky, haunted feel.

Check out Calvert Vaux Park from all angles in this short video from our Above New York series.

Music by Caleb Belkin — Reminisce

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[REPOST] Above New York: The Manhattan Bridge

2019-03-27T11:00:00-04:00

Opened to the public in 1910, the Manhattan Bridge is the youngest of the three Lower Manhattan/Brooklyn bridges. It carries over 450,000 commuters to and from Manhattan every weekday, with over 75% of those coming from subway and bus trips. Much less crowded with tourists than the nearby Brooklyn Bridge, it is also a preferred method for bikers to cross into lower Manhattan.

See the Manhattan Bridge from all angles in this aerial video from our Above New York series.

Music by Floppy Circus — "Wayback ft. Jeff Kaale"

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[REPOST] Above New York: The Queensboro Bridge

2019-03-14T12:30:00-04:00

The longest of all the East River bridges at 3,725 feet, the Queensboro Bridge opened to the public on June 18th, 1909 and is still used by over 200,000 commuters daily.

Connecting Midtown Manhattan with Long Island City in Queens, the bridge crosses over Roosevelt Island, a convenient spot to place two of the bridge's 4 towers. The design of the bridge is unique to the other East River bridge crossings in that it is a five span cantilever truss, the only bridge that is not a suspension bridge using cables.

See the Queensboro Bridge from all angles in this short video from our Above New York series. Music by Moondog — "Bird's Lament"

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[REPOST] Above New York: New York Central Railroad 69th Street Transfer Bridge on UWS

2018-12-24T17:00:00-05:00

The 69th Street Transfer Bridge is a historic piece of urban industrial art sitting in the Hudson River off of Riverside Park on the Upper West Side.

Once an integral piece of infrastructure for the New York Central Railroad, the Transfer Bridge used to allow special barges loaded with train cars to cross the Hudson River between New Jersey and New York City. It fell into disuse in the early 1970s after the New York Central Railroad went out of business, and sat abandoned in the river for three decades.

When renovating Riverside Park in the early 2000s, the 69th Street Transfer Bridge was cleaned up and scrubbed of graffiti, leaving a remarkably intact structure behind. In 2003, the Transfer Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

See the 69th Street Transfer Bridge from all angles in this brief aerial video from our Above New York series.

The music featured in the video is Pryces — "Rainy Day"

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