Adventure Sightseeing Tour: 1 hour, $99/person
Our 60-minute boat ride takes you on an unforgettable trip through the harbor. You’ll experience the city from unique vantage points, carefully chosen with the photographer’s interest in mind. We’ll bring you within feet of major sights and create plenty of distance to shoot the panoramic skyline. Our U.S. Coast Guard licensed captains stop the boat at many places along the way to point out landmarks and give you the opportunity to take photos.
New York Media Boat zips you to over 40 sights around the local waterways so you can get the best photos of New York!
Our tours depart from North Cove Marina at Brookfield Place located in lower Manhattan very close to One World Trade Center. After a briefing on the dock, you'll board our safe and seaworthy US NAVY designed boat. We’ll leave Manhattan and head out into the Hudson River to get spectacular views of the skyline and to give you an orientation of the lay of the land. We run south along the Financial District and Battery Park and stop at the most southern point of Manhattan from where you can take great photos of the downtown skyline before we head into the East River and often see helicopters takeoff and land as we pass South Street Seaport. We go under the Brooklyn Bridge, and up to the Manhattan Bridge -- another favorite photo spot. We continue to cruise along the Brooklyn waterfront and past Governors Island before we cross the Upper Bay, where you’ll see tugboats, barges, the Staten Island Ferry. We stop the boat real close to the Statue of Liberty to give you the perfect vantage point for photos with her and of the entire world-famous NYC skyline. We then head north on the Hudson River past Ellis Island, the New Jersey ‘9/11 Empty Sky Memorial’, past the Colgate Clock and stop above the Holland Tunnel. From there you’ll get great views of Midtown and Downtown as well as of the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building and Hudson Yards. We continue north on the Hudson River along the Hoboken waterfront and then cross the river to look at Chelsea Piers, the Little Island and the FDNY fireboat station before turning south and making our way back to North Cove Marina.
We hope to welcome you aboard!
Directions:
NORTH COVE MARINA at Brookfield Place: Intersection of South End Avenue and Liberty Street.
-- Very close to One World Trade Center and adjacent to Brookfield Place shopping center and food court --
From the corner of South End Avenue and Liberty Street, walk past the security barrier and down the ramp towards North Cove Marina. A small park will be on your right hand side. Our boats dock at the first floating dock in the south-east corner of the boat basin. There is a blue sign on the railing that reads 'New York Media Boat'. Please wait by the sign at the gate and our captains will greet you there. The closest subway station is ‘Chambers Street’ on the 1, 2 or 3 train or the 'World Trade Center' stop on the E train.
