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The best way to start any visit to New York City is to go out onto its harbour in order to view its spectacular skyline. The best part is New York Harbour cruises run year round. A harbour cruise is available daytime, twilight & night. By night, the view is breathtaking and includes - Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island , Empire State Building , Chrysler Building , South Street Seaport, Brooklyn Bridge and United Nations and more. When you first leave you will be passing under the high Verrazano Narrows Bridge between Staten Island and Brooklyn then you glade through the wide mouth of the harbour looking out at the open Atlantic . You then can pass close to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island . You will get a small feel for what the millions of new Americans at the end of the Nineteenth and beginning of the Twentieth centuries must have felt coming into the harbour. You are then in the most impressive area of New York Harbour , surrounded by large ships and other water traffic, with the Wall Street area skyline to the left. Container facilities and other piers mostly on the New Jersey side of the harbour handle more than half of the cargo entering Canada and the U.S. from the east. Activity continues around the clock. With the city looming in front of you the skyline is remarkable. That is why New York City harbour cruises are among the most unforgettable in the world. Take a harbour cruise to Ellis Island . It reopened in 1990 after a massive restoration, the main building on Ellis Island is now a museum dedicated to the history of immigration. Liberty Island is home to the Statue of Liberty, however since 11th September only the grounds of Liberty Island are open for visitation.
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New York Harbour Cruises
