It Looked Familiar: Incredible Obscure

A crashed helicopter on top of something on the edge of the river, waiting for Daredevil to perform a rescue:

That’s a float bridge. They’re used to transfer freight cars from a railroad to a barge or vice versa; the lack of a freight tunnel below New York Harbor meant that there used to be a lot of them scattered around the waterfront on both sides of the East and Hudson Rivers, as well as further south at the harbor proper. Here’s a decent drawing of one from about 100 years ago:

The most famous of the remnants is where the Long Island Railroad met the East River in Queens, in what is now Gantry Plaza State Park: