3/7: walk
The High Line
It's just as fantastic as ever, and still one of my very favourite places in New York - or anywhere, really. It's public, it's free, it's popular, it's an astonishing transformation of an abandoned railway line. The planting is incredibly well done, and the effects are lovely.
The views vary enormously along the line and are some of the best in the city mixing old and new, dilapidated and shiny, tall and small, business and residential.
[Phoebe's spot]
Every step creates new vistas that are framed or edged or blurred by the trees and flowers and shrubs. If you get there at the right time - first thing on weekdays - you can have the place almost to yourself, and when daylight fades the clever lighting along the path comes on.
The free information about the High Line is great and you can download monthly plant lists and a couple of excellent self-guided tours including this historical tour. Seriously, I could spend weeks up there, only thirty feet above street level but with my head in the clouds.
(There's also a very good book.)
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