I do amateur astronomy from Manhattan, btw. Jupiter has been amazingly bright for a few months now. It, like Venus, when it is out at night or in the early morning, is often mistaken for an approaching plane’s headlights or a hovering helicopter.
That would explain the other brightish, stationery light a bit north of the one described, from our perspective, and much further east.
But this other thing was closer to the river, and south (again, from our perspective) of what I think was Jupiter.
And I'm telling you, the spotlight effect was huge.