Leg 318, Lakewood, New Jersey to Albany, New York, USA
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The slowest leg so far, I took my time looking around New York. Average speed for this leg is only 35 knots, 227nm in 6.5 hours and nearly 15 GiB of data streamed. I could spend a week exploring New York alone, the excellent weather today made it hard to move on. Urban canyon exploring at its finest.
07-05 Lakewood N12 5:36 AM
07-05 Monmouth Executive KBLM 5:40 AM Middletown PG Area 40°23’45"N 74°6’9"W
07-05 Marlboro 2N8 6:06 AM Edison PG Area 40°32’28"N
07-05 Linden KLDJ 6:27 AM
07-05 Newark Liberty Intl KEWR 6:44 AM Newark PG Area 40°44’22"N 74°10’11"W
07-05 Teterboro KTEB 7:07 AM
07-05 Laguardia KLGA 7:20 AM
07-05 Floyd Bennet Field 40°35’46.74"N 73°53’47.92"W 9:25 AM
07-05 Kennedy Intl KJFK * 9:38 AM
07-05 Republic KFRG 10:12 AM Stamford PG Area 41°3’10"N 73°32’22"W
07-05 Stewart Intl KSWF * 10:58 AM
07-05 Kingston-Ulster 20N 11:20 AM
07-05 Deer Run NY74 11:31 AM
07-05 Wayne Delp 33NY 11:35 AM
07-05 South Albany 4B0 11:47 AM
07-05 Albany Intl KALB 12:01 PM
Flight time 6:25 15 stops
Departure from Lakewood at dawn
First stop is only a short hop away, Monmouth Executive Airport
Sunrise over Howell Township
Due Process Stables Golf Course and Colts Neck Stables LLC at Swimming River Reservoir
Red Bank on the Navesink River
Hartshorne Woods Park
Forested park home to WWII-era bunkers
Fort Hancock, lot of historical artillery around right at the entrance to New York
Keansburg Amusement Park on Raritan Bay
Marlboro Airport at Wickatunk Recreation Area
Middlesex College at Thomas A. Edison Park
Edison, New Jersey
Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park
Rahway River
Linden Airport
Infineum USA
Port Newark
Port Newark Container Terminal
Cape Liberty Cruise Port
Newark Liberty International Airport, opened 1928, the oldest airfield in the USA
Newark, New Jersey
Prudential Center, home of the New Jersey Devils
Flying over Market St
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
Rutgers University - Newark Campus
Red Bull Arena on the Passaic River, home to the New York Red Bulls and NJ/NY Gotham FC
Teterboro Airport close to he Hackensack River
The Hudson river, crossing Manhattan to LaGuardia Airport
Manhattan is derived from from the Munsee Lenape language term manaháhtaan “place for gathering the (wood to make) bows” The Dutch settled on Manhattan in 1626 and called it New Amsterdam. The English took it over in 1664 and named it New York
Central Park with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir
Harlem (below me) originally a Dutch village (1658) was named for the Dutch city of Haarlem
Harlem River, Icahn Stadium and Little Hell Gate Salt Marsh
East River, Rikers Island ahead before La Guardia and Hell Gate Bridge on the right
Named for the once-dangerous channel it bridges, derived from the Dutch word hellegat (hell hole)
I still have a screenshot of Hell Gate Bridge from FSX, dated October 22nd 2006, release version
At about 7 fps while my HW was more up to date than it is currently, amazing progress.
LaGuardia Airport, circa 1939 airport in Queens
Back to Manhattan for a closer look, here over East Harlem
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring a huge collection from all over the world
Heading down 7th Avenue, Columbus Circle on the right
And back to Columbus Circle along 8th Avenue right over Christopher Columbus statue
Museum of Arts and Design behind me in between 8th Ave and Broadway
Heading down 5th Avenue next, Grand Army Plaza at the entrance to Central Park
The Empire State Building, completed 1931
First I heard of it was from Roald Dahl’s “James and the giant peach”
The top was intended as a mooring station for Zeppelins, used only once in 35 knot winds
Apparently The Thomas Jefferson still has a rooftop zeppelin mooring mast (never used) Builders of the hotel created a tower for what was believed to be the future of air travel. However too much wind up there.
Flatiron Building, Architect Daniel Burnham’s iconic 1902 triangular tower at Madison Square
Washington Square Park, historic Greenwich Village gathering spot
Penn Station, the main intercity railroad station in New York City and the busiest transportation facility of any kind in the Western Hemisphere, with over 600K daily passengers
The station is underneath Madison Square Garden, the round building… Madison Square Garden was named for its location, however Madison Square is at Flatiron Building. Of course Pennsylvania Station isn’t in Pennsylvania either. The original station was razed in the early 60s, moved underground and Madison Square Garden build on top.
Penn 1 or One Penn Plaza, completed 1972, 57 floors, 750ft
Times Square, originally Longacre Square until the NY Times hq moved there in 1904
I had plans to land here, better not
Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge over the East River
Manhattan Bridge, opened 1909, known for it’s ornate Arch and Colonnade at Chinatown
7 lanes of traffic, 4 subway tracks and pedestrian/cycle paths on either side
Brooklyn Bridge, opened 1883, the first fixed crossing of the East River
6 lanes of traffic, walkway in the middle
https://i.imgur.com/YKRjksH.png
It used to carry elevated trains until 1944, streetcars until 1950
https://i.imgur.com/VM4gQ6n.png
(Can’t land on either, bounding box preventing getting to the deck)
Looking straight down Broadway (which makes a slight left turn at E 10th st)
https://i.imgur.com/JaMdodQ.png
9-11 Memorial & Museum and the new One World Trade Center, opened 2014
https://i.imgur.com/2mL8XeK.png
The Battery park and Whitehall Terminal at the tip of Manhattan
https://i.imgur.com/JZnAKp6.png
The Statue of Liberty, gifted by France in 1885
https://i.imgur.com/YbgrG35.png
Edouard de Laboulaye (1811-1883) hoped that by calling attention to the recent achievements of the United States, the French people would be inspired to create their own democracy
https://i.imgur.com/iY0gAXi.png
The full name of the statue is “Liberty Enlightening the World” referring to the Enlightenment ideals
https://i.imgur.com/JRW7D5T.png
Fort Jay and Urban Assembly New York Harbor School on Governers Island
https://i.imgur.com/M3qJUNm.png
Fort Jay is the oldest existing defensive structure on the island, built in 1794
https://i.imgur.com/bdQUKGm.png
The fort was built on the site of earthworks from 1776, built to defend New York City during the American Revolution
One more view of Manhattan (can spend so much more time here)
https://i.imgur.com/fH2TiRW.png
Ellis Island on the left with Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration
Brooklyn, New York City’s most populous borough, with an estimated 2,648,403 residents in 2020
https://i.imgur.com/aofbGwJ.png
Coney Island with Maimonides Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones
https://i.imgur.com/GEyykJP.png
Home to the Cyclone Wooden Roller Coaster in operation since 1926
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93xGlC1UAQ8
Fun ride, we tried it out back in 1999 when we visited NY for the premiere of Star Wars Episode One. Which wasn’t really worth traveling 6,000 km for, however we also saw The Matrix (awesome) and of course New York! Since 2015 I’ll always associate Coney Island with Mr. Robot. Epic first season.
Landing at Floyd Bennett Field, no longer in use, became a park in 1974
https://i.imgur.com/2azlkJW.png
Rockaway Beach and Cross Bay Veterans Memorial Bridge over Jamaica Bay, heading to JFK
https://i.imgur.com/zYSa6uP.png
John F Kennedy International Airport
https://i.imgur.com/E2yJ61W.png
Opened in 1948 as New York International Airport)and was commonly known as Idlewild Airport
https://i.imgur.com/cQFGfnM.png
Nowadays the busiest international air passenger gateway into North America
https://i.imgur.com/sVHlKak.png
Flying over Queens, Meadow Lake, Willow Lake and MTA Jamaica Yard Facility from top to bottom
https://i.imgur.com/geAf30y.png
Corona Park with the Unisphere, Queens Museum and New York State Pavilion
https://i.imgur.com/zeaoLfG.png
Arthur Ashe Stadium, the largest tennis stadium at Flushing Meadows
https://i.imgur.com/pvfZ9au.png
The stadium got a (retractable) roof in 2016, not here yet
Citi Field, home of the New York Mets
https://i.imgur.com/VJEImnO.png
Belmont Park, annual site of the Belmont Stakes Triple Crown championship
https://i.imgur.com/wNch9U2.png
Republic Airport in Farmingdale
https://i.imgur.com/OO21j5u.png
Centre Island in Oyster Bay
https://i.imgur.com/yzVyzVx.png
Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve
https://i.imgur.com/4PFcddE.png
Shippan Point in Stamford
https://i.imgur.com/SWAavb6.png
Stamford, a Connecticut city on Long Island Sound
https://i.imgur.com/MhYAyS5.png
North Stamford Reservoir
https://i.imgur.com/JYf4YPd.png
GlenArbor Golf Club
https://i.imgur.com/cxnkSMZ.png
Amawalk Dam
https://i.imgur.com/VDlghpD.png
Cold Spring on the Hudson River
https://i.imgur.com/jdstobb.png
United States Military Academy, founded 1802
https://i.imgur.com/VpPh3kt.png
Hudson Highlands State Park
https://i.imgur.com/s5iy7ZT.png
Stewart International Airport
https://i.imgur.com/Wpy2CmH.png
Located in Newburgh, New York
https://i.imgur.com/UyLw6J4.png
Nicely modeled smaller airport
https://i.imgur.com/yXGjqR0.png
Counts as a bridge to fly under
https://i.imgur.com/CrCwI2e.png
Port Ewen and Kingston on the Hudson River
https://i.imgur.com/ccnAggV.png
Saugerties, Esopus Creek joining the Hudson River
https://i.imgur.com/crkj37I.png
Wayne Delp Airport
https://i.imgur.com/CkMinE1.png
CSX Albany at Bethlehem
https://i.imgur.com/WHjzl7v.png
Turned around to land at South Albany Airport, CSX Car Shop ahead
https://i.imgur.com/AyWh2A3.png
Albany, the capital of New York
https://i.imgur.com/rv3vZST.png
New York State Capitol in between East and West Capitol Park
https://i.imgur.com/2TDaTnG.png
Amazing building
https://i.imgur.com/MYE8AKI.png
Last stop today at Albany International Airport
https://i.imgur.com/E8jiq1i.png
Next leg, Massachusetts and Connecticut while heading back to the coast to explore Long Island.