"I'm not so sure. They did go out of the way to NOT show us anything that would prove it's Earth (like our moon, or a good clear look at the continents). And while the wreckage of the city most certainly did look like Manhattan, I wouldn't say it was definitively so. For one thing, the architecture seemed a little futurist (not unlike Caprica City). And a bridge does not necessarily make it Manhattan.

I thought for sure we were going to get a "Planet of the Apes" shot of the Statue of Liberty, but they held back. My hunch is that yes, it is Earth. But I wouldn't take that for granted just yet. I think they left it deliberately ambiguous."

"i agree about the ambiguity factor but they had to keep the suspense right? but really i think it is earth but damn if it is....its really depressing!!!"

""unmistakenly"?

If that's Brooklyn, then they've done a poor job regarding the accuracy of how everything looks. Go take a look at a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge on google... then go check that episode again. Neither of them look alike.

Also, that skyline does not match with the amount of land you would see looking across from the western coast of Brooklyn. However, it does match the land seen from the view of Governor's Island's northern coast. It doesn't necessarily have to be New York at all, but if it were, then the geography tells me they landed on Governor's Island.

You don't have to be a New Yorker or New Jersian to be able to tell the difference here. You can see it all with google maps + pictures.

One of the structures that you cannot identify as being in present-day New York is the strange domed building at the bottom right side of the screen when the episode is seconds away from ending"