Having flown in the area quite a few times, I would highly recommend
contacting LGA tower for the Class Bravo transition, either north up
the East River and then west across Central Park, or the same route
opposite direction.

As long as you are efficient with your airtime on the radio, LGA tower
have always been very helpful to me indeed. And it's comforting to be
operating with a clearance and traffic advisories from them rather
than squinting down the Hudson scanning for traffic.

My advice: don't avoid LGA tower and the Class Bravo round there. Yes
they are busy but they are very nice and the views are great.

Tom



I always avoid flying down the East River, it's just too narrow. Even
the Hudson River needs a large bank when making a 180 after the George
Washington Bridge.