Seaplane in the Battery Frame Color:White functioning parts of the public

functioning parts of the public realm: the Plaza Hotel

This photo was published on the front page of The New York Times on October 24

and the crowd was as big as Fifth Avenue could hold

" The New York Times reported

Seaplane in the Battery Frame Color:White functioning parts of the publicCaptain Wolfgang Von Gronau of Germany and three companions set their seaplane down at the Battery in New York after blazing a 4,670 mile trail across the Atlantic by way of the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Nova Scotia, spending 47 hours in the air. Von Gronau's 4,670 mile flight proved that airplanes were viable for traveling long distances. He later circumnavigated the globe in his Dornier Wal seaplane, starting and ending in Sylt, Germany.