New York Harbor stretches out as seen from the One World Trade Center in New York May 10, 2013. Workers cheered and whistled as they completed the spire on New York's One World Trade Center on Friday, raising the building to its full height of 1,776 feet and helping fill a void in the skyline left by the September 11, 2001 attacks.
This May 2, 2013 photo shows the site of Battle Hill, the highest point in Brooklyn and the first major Revolutionary War battle fought after the Declaration of Independence, at Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery in New York. It is designated by a bronze statue of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom whose hand is raised in salute to the Statue of Liberty facing her in New York Harbor.
In this April 22, 2013 photo, Frank Ferrari, 92, poses for a photo in Wallingford, Conn. Ferrari took part in seven assault landings on Pacific islands during World War II, but nothing put more fear in Ferrari than towing a blazing cargo ship filled with 1,365 tons of ordnance out of New York Harbor.
Sailors line the mast of the tall ship ARC Gloria, training ship and official flagship of the Colombian Navy, as it passes the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor while arriving for the 25th annual Fleet Week celebration in New York, in this May 23, 2012 file photo. The annual Fleet Week celebrations in various U.S. ports may be curtailed or cut due to sequestration, according to media reports.
NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 08: The Staten Island Ferry mmoves across New York Harbor as Statue of Liberty stands in a cloud of snow and sleet in the early hours of a major winter storm on February 8, 2013 in Brooklyn borough of New York City. New York City and much of the Northeast is expected to get a foot or more of snow through Saturday afternoon with possible record-setting blizzard conditions expected in Boston, Massachusetts. Heavy snow warnings are in effect from New Jersey through southern Maine.
A dolphin struggles to lift its head out of the water in the headwaters of the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, New York, January 25, 2013. The sea mammal appeared to struggle in the narrow waterway that stretches 1.8 miles into Brooklyn from New York Harbor.
