We walked the Highline today, probably our favorite walk in Manhattan. Actual we walked all the way across town to start the 2+ mile walk along an abandoned elevated rail trestle that was been converted into a city park. These people are walking about two stories above the streets below.
We have walked the Highline for years, and oh how it has changed. Neighborhoods along the way and at either end are being transformed. The plants and trees have grown tall, and sometimes you forget what it was just a few years before. The construction going on in New York is unreal. Hudson Yards, at the north end of the Highline, is supposedly the largest municipal building project going on in the country right now. The only space available of any size in Manhattan is straight up. Hudson Yards is designed as a cap over the large rail yards, and then extending up into the unused skyline above.
At the southern end of the Highline is the new Whitney Museum. A beautiful building, although the artwork can be a little strange. The wax sleep walker in his underwear is actually on the Highline as you approach the museum.
This is why you don't want a car in Manhattan! After the Whitney we took the subway to Central Park for a short jaunt before heading back to Mark and Sandra's.
That's right: CupcakeATM. Put your money in, and a cupcake pops out. Vera spotted it on the walk back to the subway. By the end of the day, culminating in dinner at a great restaurant Mark and Sandra treated us to, we had walked 10 miles (measured by Vera's Fitbit).
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