Amazing pictures, Lou.
Wow, 3+ hrs in the hold, flown by the old school LNAV device, the FO.  :D
At least they've changed the holdings, huh?
Do they let you come closer with each step, so you can tell that the guys holding at your previous place have to wait longer than you would?

I think I never had a single sim flight were I would have been able to do a 3 hour holding at the end.
So did you plan quite some extra fuel when going to KJFK then?
Trip 1 hour + 3 hour holding fuel + extra + taxi = Lou's fuel load?

I think I saw a documentation about the NY ATC and also some incidents related to it. A guy explained that the "low fuel sentence" happens on a daily basis in that airspace since e. g. bad weather and the three major airports (with their related traffic amount) easily form up delays.
There once was an Avianca 707 running out of fuel and not communicating clearly about it (so ATC just handed her over from controller to controller).
She smashed into the ground a few hundred feet from the runway after the holdings and some go-arounds in bad weather. Empty tanks.