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Remarkable 5 Minute Drone Video Shows All 5 Boroughs From Above
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Jen Carlson
Published Jan 8, 2015
Modified Jan 8, 2015
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Its creators call it the "Ultimate Aerial Video of NYC," and we kind of agree. It's got everything, from the Staten Island boat graveyard to 5Pointz to the High Line to Chinatown to our beautiful bridges and baseball fields. You'll get iconic signage in Queens, hospital ruins on Roosevelt Island, and coasters in Coney Island—they didn't leave one borough out:
We'd have to agree with The Verge, the '80s synth soundtrack somehow works.
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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