A row of Five bright lights over Manhattan

Saw five flashing large lights, sometimes changing color to red, in a horizontal line over Manhattan from the Jersey side of Hudson River.  They kept hovering in the same line for over a half hour, flashing randomly. 
When I videotaped the event with a zoom, focusing on one light at a time, I saw that the light seemed to be dancing around in a circle, appearing and disappearing. 
When it appeared closer, it looked like a planet with a line across the middle of the orb.