Solar-Powered Plane Will Fly Over Brooklyn, Circle Statue of Liberty Tuesday

Image courtesy of the NYPD

BROOKLYN, NY — A completely solar-powered, fuel-free plane called the Solar Impulse 2 will fly over Brooklyn and circle the Statue of Liberty in the wee hours Tuesday, with a noisy helicopter as its escort, city officials warned Monday.

The plane will fly to NYC from Pennsylvania on Monday night and Tuesday morning — the final stop on the U.S. leg of its much-celebrated world tour.

"It's a symbolic flight, free from the constraints of fossil fuels," the pilots wrote on their (totally poppin') live blog this week. 

According to the NYPD and NYC Emergency Management officials, the plane will enter the city around 2 a.m. through New York Bay, fly over the Verrazano Bridge (which connects Brooklyn to Staten Island), make a couple showy loops around Lady Liberty, then head east across Brooklyn to JFK Airport.

So if we assume the Impulse will travel as the crow flies, the neighborhoods in its path would be, roughly: Red Hook, Gowanus, Park Slope, Crown Heights, Brownsville and East New York.

The hubbub should be over by 3 a.m., city officials said.

Below, a video explainer on the hunk of metal hurtling over your home tonight.