The High Line is a 2.33 km New York City park built on a section of the former elevated freight railroad of the West Side Line, along the lower west side of Manhattan.
The High Line park will eventually run from the West Side Yard, near the Javits Convention Center, through the neighborhood of Chelsea to Gansevoort Street (one block below West 12th Street) in the Meat Packing District of the West Village. The High Line was built in the early 1930s by the New York Central Railroad to eliminate the fatal accidents that occurred along the street-level right-of-way and to offer direct warehouse-to-freight car service that reduced pilferage for the Bell Laboratories Building (now the Westbeth Artists Community) and the Chelsea Market former Nabisco plant. Nabisco was originally known as National Biscuit Company. It was in active use until 1980.
In the 1990s, it became known to a few urban explorers and local residents for the tough, drought-tolerant wild grasses, shrubs, and trees that had sprung up in the gravel along the abandoned railway.
In 1999, the non-profit Friends of the High Line was formed.
Chelsea Market är en saluhall (mellan 8-9 Avenue och 16-17 St) fylld av godsaker för magen och ögat. Tidigare utgjorde lokalerna ett jättestort bageri med sk liggande ugnar. Det var New York Biscuit Company som hade verksamheten innan. NBC bokstäver liksom andra industriella artefacter finns bevarade här och där. Maten, dock ej biscuits dominerar fortfarande lokalerna. Till de absoluta höjdpunkterna hör brownies i olika utföranden hos Fat Witches, ljuvliga cupcakes och bröd hos Eleni’s och Amys Bakery, samt gudomligt goda Fish Tacos på 202, som kombinerar lunch restaurang och klädbutik på ett chict sätt.
Vi var sugna på ostron och hummer och gick till Lobster Place och åt suschi och krabba.
