Driving into Downtown New York City northbound (COVID-19)
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- NOTE: This video was filmed during the COVID-19 State of Emergency in April 2020.
Starting Point: Eastbound Staten Island Expressway (I-278)
Also Includes: Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (I-278) eastbound,
Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (I-278) northbound , Brooklyn Bridge northbound
The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2017 population of 8,622,698 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km2), New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world, with an estimated 20.3 million people in its 2017 Metropolitan Statistical Area and 23.7 million residents in its Combined Statistical Area. A global power city, New York City has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, and exerts a significant impact upon commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, and sports. The city's fast pace defines the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy.
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I'm in Chicago area, Drove over the GW Bridge about 15 years ago.
Videos like this really let you know how it is in the city.
This is why UA-cam is so cool.
The person in that range rover was having a tough time sticking to his own lane. Great Video btw 👍😄
Pretty sure that’s the police or something
@@daltonlanier4812 there's the medical symbol on the license plate
I never saw the Verrazano, the BQE, or the Brooklyn Bridge so empty in my life. That is eerie.
Very cool.Thank you
The Verrazanno Narrows Bridge still wows me to this day.
It sure does. Right up there with the greatest of our nation's bridges.
PelicanGuy Yep
It starts from the Verrazano Narrows Bridge all the way to the Brooklyn Bridge.
I really Wanna move To NYC, it's such a beautiful place
Any comments about the car engine noise
Love it
I’m so thankful to be born and raised in rural Kentucky. When I go outside I’m surrounded by visible and audible beauty. Song birds, trees, deer, and other wildlife. The nights are a orchestra of crickets and frogs all singing the same tune. We open the windows at night to let the music 🎶 of nature in as we sleep. How people live in big cities like NYC just baffles me. It sounds like hell on earth. Filth, stink, violence, and every kind of unnatural sound . No wonder people kill each other every day. To each his own I reckon. I’d like to go see NYC just to further appreciate the paradise I have been blessed with.
And each city seems to look the same. Concrete, asphalt, traffic, gray and bleak. I’m so thankful to drive on a beautiful curvy, hilly, scenic road to work everyday, and come home to grass and trees and hummingbirds and horses. I would suffocate spiritually in a big city.
Found the conservative
What camera are you using?
Nice Vid
I’m sure at the time, it was strange to see the streets so open like that. Now, in 2021, it’s weird to think that we may never see NYC like this again. At least maybe not in our lifetime. I hope not, anyway.
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Wow
Streets will never look like that again
San Francisco Bay Area has way more Traffic
GOOD TO SEE EVERYONE was driving the speed limit (not!)...
Are we there yet?
We’ll will get there when we get there!
9:00 Whoever’s driving that Range Rover needs to learn how to stay in a lane
Beaufort county is 278 ? why have the sam city wow lol lol
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Bro drive faster damn
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I'm driving to new York soon mid June anyone who has driven to new york, could you tell me what it's like and what to expect?