A nighttime view of the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area

iss073e0658285 (Sept. 11, 2025) --- The New York-New Jersey metropolitan area, with a population of about 19.8 million, on the U.S. east coast is photographed at approximately 2:43 a.m. local time from the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above the Atlantic Ocean. The dark, rectangular shape near top center is Central Park in New York's borough of Manhattan.