Past pyroclastic flow deposits are easily visible in river valleys near the volcano, likely caused by lava dome collapse, along with ridges found east of the summit consisting of ash cloud remains.
The fire was clearly visible across the river in Manhattan.
The river visible in the photograph, taken from the building's 103rd floor, is the East River.
The landscape, afterwards, looks more watered, the energy of the small river "visible everywhere".
It is a celebration of the then-emerging riverside suburbs of Westchester, which were served by steamboats, visible on the river at the bottom left of the picture.
Factory chimneys and high-rises are visible across the river but here all is semi-natural swampland, fruit plantations and fishermen's houses on stilts.
Minutes after pushing off, we passed below the commandant's house at the Navy Yard, where Abraham Lincoln often walked on a balcony still visible from the river.
AS LUO YAN, a producer and former film star, walks through what appears to be 1880s Shanghai, the smokestacks of Linyi, a grimy city some 600km from China's glitzy business metropolis, are visible across the river.
The center is also visible across the river in the Bronx, as it rises over a shambolic jumble of single-story bus depots and auto repair shops, Campbell's sanded-aluminum panels picking up on the industrial vibe and vocabulary of the Broadway Bridge, with its twin raised steel towers, a few blocks north.
