Watching tall ships on Hudson
The Hudson River will host the main parade of ships on Saturday, but 32-year-old Caesar Garcia of the Upper East Side and his fiancée will be traveling, and so they went instead to see the preliminary event, held Friday afternoon on the East River.
Garcia, a software engineer, was near the tip of Manhattan and had seen four of five ships pass, He was hoping to see some of the ships he'd seen online in previews of the show.
"The ships are old and from different countries, so we're interested and want to see how they look in person," he said, standing with other spectators.
Matthew Chayes, a Newsday reporter since 2007, covers New York City.
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