Most transplants to New York, or people who live too far from Coney Island to feesably walk or bike to it have probably only seen the parachute drop in Coney Island from up close and underneath it.

While it’s cool up close, it’s a completely different beast when seeing it in a frame of reference with tall buildings (and a crain) in the much nearer foreground across Gravesend Bay — or Caesars Bay, if you’re an idiot from Brooklyn who doesn’t understand that Caesars Bay was only a marketplace named after a man named Caesar, and not the actual name of the bay.