--- title: Drone Camera Video: Stunning Aerial Views of Manhattan, New York City description: Everything looks so clean from far away canonical: https://time.com/63793/drone-video-new-york-city-aerial-views/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-16T11:13:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:49.016Z og:title: Drone Footage Captures Stunning Aerial Views of New York City og:description: Everything looks so clean from far away og:url: https://time.com/63793/drone-video-new-york-city-aerial-views/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Drone Footage Captures Stunning Aerial Views of New York City twitter:description: Everything looks so clean from far away twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Drone Footage Captures Stunning Aerial Views of New York City by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 16, 2014 11:13 AM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Apr 16, 2014 11:13 AM UTC Sometimes the best way to appreciate New York City’s majestic beauty is to take a step back and observe it from afar — or from up high. This aerial footage captured by photographer Randy Scott Slavin, with the help of a drone, lets you explore the city’s busy streets and glittering skyscrapers on a sunny day. It makes you feel like you’re a bird, or like you have a magic carpet or something. Plus, the city seems so much cleaner and less smelly from this perspective. ([h/t Gizmodo](http://gizmodo.com/this-drone-footage-of-nyc-makes-you-feel-like-spiderman-1563390555)) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/63793/drone-video-new-york-city-aerial-views/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/63793/drone-video-new-york-city-aerial-views/"},"headline":"Drone Footage Captures Stunning Aerial Views of New York City","datePublished":"2014-04-16T11:13:01.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:49.016Z","description":"Everything looks so clean from far away","url":"https://time.com/63793/drone-video-new-york-city-aerial-views/","keywords":["Newsfeed","U.S.","New York City","NYC","Drone"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/63793/drone-video-new-york-city-aerial-views/","name":"Drone Footage Captures Stunning Aerial Views of New York City"}}]}] ```