NavList:

Antoine, you wrote:
"One dark red "metal tower/pylon" seems almost lined up with the ESB "center" and can be used as an "almost" direct alignment. We already have one reliable LOP here as long as we have reliably identified and reported such landmark onto our "map"."

Yes, exactly! That's what caught my eye when I first looked at this photo. That alignment gives us one very nice line of position. So what is that funny red tower? I gave two little clues in my original post. One was the word Luna (which is relevant to a possible second line of position) and the other was Steeplechase. While these are distant descendants of the originals, mostly preserving the name and not the spirit, Luna Park and Steeplechase Park were two of the earliest Coney Island amusement parks over a century ago when electric lighting was enough to draw a crowd, and Joshua Slocum was running "magic lantern" shows describing his one-man voyage around the world. The third great Coney Island park was the spectacular and strange Dreamland, whose flame did not burn long... before it literally burned to the ground. In the Wikipedia article for Steeplechase, scan down about halfway through the article for a photo referencing the 1939 New York World's Fair. 

I'm assuming that this navigation problem would be solved by alignments and their corresponding lines of position extending, for example, through the center of the Empire State Building and the center of that dark red tower. But are there other approaches? The red tower is much closer to the photographer than the E.S.B. Can we use that? Are there other clues?

Frank Reed