Amazing!
Me as a pilot in the same situation, I'm not sure if I would have tried a ditching but to land on a highway nearby. The history of ditching doesn't look very positive, there are a few lucky exceptions. But to land on a crowded NYC highway could have been very very scary.
Congrats to the crew involved. The fly-by-wire technic from Airbus surely helped also to make a smooth ditching.
Dani