1. EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

Although the Empire State Building is not along the water, it can be seen while sailing alongside the breathtaking NY Skyline. This impressive 1,250-feet tower opened in 1923 and was the world’s tallest building for 30 years. The Empire State Building is a 103-story skyscraper located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and West 34th Street.

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2. CHRYSLER BUILDING

The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco style skyscraper in New York City, located on the east side of Manhattan in the Turtle Bay area at the intersection of 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. At 1,046 feet (319 m), the structure was the world's tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the Empire State Building in 1931. It is still the tallest brick building in the world, albeit with an internal steel skeleton.

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3. PEPSI COLA SIGN

The famous LIC sign itself displays the words "Pepsi Cola" alongside a tilted glass bottle of Pepsi. It stands at 147 feet tall, and its bright red logo represents a style of the past, having been designed in the 19th century. The area in which it resides is Hunter's Point / Long Island City, which is an area of the borough Queens, which is along the East River, just across the way from Manhattan.

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4. WILLIAMSBURG BRIDGE

The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City across the East River connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan at Delancey Street with the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn at Broadway near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

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5. MANHATTAN BRIDGE

The Manhattan Bridge is a suspension bridge that crosses the East River in New York City, connecting Lower Manhattan with Brooklyn (at Flatbush Avenue Extension). It was the last of the three suspension bridges built across the lower East River, following the Brooklyn and the Williamsburg bridges. 
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6. BROOKLYN BRIDGE

The Brooklyn Bridge is a bridge in New York City and is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States. Completed in 1883, it connects the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn by spanning the East River. Regarded as one of the greatest architectural achievements of all time, it was designed by John Augustus Roebling and was constructed between 1869 and 1883.

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7. SOUTH STREET SEAPORT

The South Street Seaport is a historic area in the New York City borough of Manhattan, located where Fulton Street meets the East River, and adjacent to the Financial District. The Seaport is a designated historic district, distinct from the neighboring Financial District. It features some of the oldest architecture in downtown Manhattan, and includes the largest concentration of restored early 19th-century commercial buildings in the city. 

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8. WORLD TRADE CENTER /
FREEDOM TOWER

Originally built between 1966 & 1976, the World Trade Center’s twin towers were once the tallest buildings in the world at 110 stories each. They were destroyed by an act of international terrorism on September 11, 2001. One World Trade Center (formerly the Freedom Tower) is the primary building of the new World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, & the tallest skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere. 

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9. GOVERNOR'S ISLAND

Governors Island is a 172-acre island in Upper New York Bay, approximately one-half mile from the southern tip of Manhattan Island and separated from Brooklyn by Buttermilk Channel. It is legally part of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. These 203 acres were under military command from the 1700s through 1996, making it the oldest continuously operated military post in U.S. history.

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10. STATUE OF LIBERTY

The Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in the middle of New York Harbor, in Manhattan, New York City. The statue, designed by Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886, was a gift to the United States from the people of France. 

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11. ELLIS ISLAND

Ellis Island, in Upper New York Bay, was the gateway for millions of immigrants to the United States as the nation's busiest immigrant inspection station from 1892 until 1954. The island was greatly expanded with land reclamation between 1892 and 1934. Before that, the much smaller original island was the site of Fort Gibson and later a naval magazine. Nearly 17 million immigrants were processed here between 1892 and 1957.

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12. COLGATE CLOCK

The Colgate Clock is an octagonal clock facing the Hudson River near Exchange Place in Jersey City, New Jersey, with a diameter of 50 feet. It is currently situated 400 meters south of the former site of the headquarters of consumer products conglomerate Colgate-Palmolive, which was until the 1980s based in Jersey City. When the factory was demolished in the 1980s, the clock remained.

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