The Highline NYC (And Two Flies Gettin It On)
Spent the afternoon in New York City this past Tuesday. My lady friend hadn’t spent much time in NYC so I dutifully volunteered to take her on a scenic tour of the West Village.
We took the 163 bus from North Jersey into Manhattan, hopped on the E train and got off around 14th street.
Remembering a tip from my friend Brian Leo, I led the way to 10th avenue and headed up to 20th where we visited the newly opened High Line.
Pretty neat concept as far as urban renewal goes…the park is an out-of-commission elevated train line that moved freight throughout the city beginning in the 1930′s.
The High Line was built in the 1930s, as part of a massive public-private infrastructure project called the West Side Improvement. It lifted freight traffic 30 feet in the air, removing dangerous trains from the streets of Manhattan’s largest industrial district. No trains have run on the High Line since 1980. Friends of the High Line, a community-based non-profit group, formed in 1999 when the historic structure was under threat of demolition. Friends of the High Line works in partnership with the City of New York to preserve and maintain the structure as an elevated public park.
Not only was it a splendid way to spend the beginning of the afternoon (as the following photos may illustrate) but nature was in full swing on the railings (as the video will illustrate)
