So I figured tonight I would try to get some great images of the city at night, including some of the beautiful bridges. My cousin Steve was nice enough to drive around with me to find the perfect locations. Around midnight we find a nice park overlooking the city and I take some photos and panoramic images. Then I decide we should try to find an even better spot, and we find one at about 1am. After fending off a bunch of rats in another park, I get my camera and tripod setup and begin taking my first few images to determine proper settings for a beautiful panoramic. Just for kicks, I take a quick set of slightly defocused photos in a pano series, because I like the way the lights look out of focus... Then I start taking the real pano shots from this amazing, pretty much perfect location. At 1:17am, there's an audible click off in the distance, and the Brooklyn Bridge's suspension cable lights turned off... Annnnd, that's a wrap. Will have to try to make it back there tomorrow, unfortunately. Here's a teaser of the view I got thanks to the defocused set: