Walking The HighLine

Many years ago in the 1980’s when I first moved to New York City it was a much grittier place.  My boyfriend at the time had grown up in the city in the 70’s and was very familiar with all the secrets places that were everywhere in the city.  I remember speeding through an empty SoHo, or the visit to TriBeCa , so he could show me where the Mudd Club used to be.

One Sunday afternoon in the winter we went up on the High Line.  I want to say that it was romantic, I know he meant it to be.  But I found it vaguely disturbing, abandoned and ghostly, broken glass and homeless people. The reality of urban decay that the city was striving to emerge from.

The Specials- Ghost town

Flowers in the Meat Market.

Fast forward to 2009 and that time seems so long ago.  TriBeCa is one of the most expensive neighborhoods to live in the whole country.  SoHo has gone through many incarnations and the High Line is New York City’s newest park.  Once an abandoned relic now thousands of people have visited since it opened this summer.

I will wait until a very cold winters day when everyone is indoors to walk the line.

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