Fly the Whale, that is. And you can watch it all from the Barge Bar on the East River.
Click here for a short video showing how to beat traffic . . .
Of course, seaplanes or flying boats are nothing new to the sixth boro. Click here for a short video of a Dornier Do-X arriving in a tugboat-filled harbor in 1929. It has no sound, but if you want to hear the details, here’s another longer video. Keyport NJ’s Aeromarine was operating long distance flights from the sixth boro even earlier.
Watch them come and go
as
you
watch from
here. For seaplane prices, click here. But it costs nothing to watch, which is the right price for me.
Click here for a previous post on Keyport.
All photos here by Will Van Dorp, who thinks that the photos in this post from February 2015 is an invigorating reminder of winter on a hot day.
Also, yesterday Marie Lorenz competed her journey in a rowboat from Buffalo to the sixth boro, and in true DeWitt Clinton fashion, she celebrated her accomplishment by pouring out some Lake Erie water into New York harbor. See it and much more here.
tugster: a waterblog 
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August 11, 2016 at 5:23 am
Rembert
Ok, Cologne can´t compete with New York in any way. But.
This aircraft splashed down on the Rhine in front of the Dome 10 years ago. And I think, it´s obvious, that it has been built many years ago by the designer of DO X (and those, mostly dutch, “Whales”, which really earned their name). And can any of those gnats from the sixth boro provide some variety en route with a 20 mm – gun?
http://www.rofrisch.de/fotokiste/do24-5020-dom-panorama.htm
I have to admit, that the flight was sponsored by UNICEF, so it was more or less a nice Hello from New York.