A half-mile riverfront esplanade offers phenomenal views of the wide Hudson River, the triangular cable webs of the Governor Mario Cuomo Bridge spanning it, and far in the blue-gray distance, the towering skyscrapers of Manhattan – peek through the telescope to find the Empire State Building.
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