The South Riding RV Travels

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13th October 2012 - New York City - The Highline Walkway

By way of a change we took the train to the World Trade Centre (the other PATH Line). From there we walked to a raised walkway known as the Highline.
This is a former rail line running at a raised level along the back of the warehouses looking out over the Hudson. This billboard along the way is tiled and the car is about 2-3 times life size.
The warehouses have now gone and modern buildings fill the space. The rail line used to bring fresh produce into the city every day.
Being raised well above street level you have good views out over the city. This building is the most prominent - the Empire State Building.
Space is really at a premium. So cars are stacked in these car parks. A bit tedious if you want to be first in and first out.
Not all the buildings are modern. This is a housing complex dating back to the 1920s.
The rails are mostly gone but the track bed has been colonised by nature. There were lots of (mostly) tourists walking the Highline city parkway.
There are many artistic elements including sculptures. This is called Urban Rattle and is made from recycled aluminium. This part of town is called Chelsea.
An advert for a storage company covering about six floors of the building.
A reminder that architecture does not have to be straight.
A lot of buildings have units like this on the roof. I think they are water towers but they seem to belong to a previous generation.
Paintings on the sides of buildings are often seen but they aren't usually this vivid.
A very clever piece of art, at one level it is just squiggles. It is about three storeys high..
An ordinary-looking building until you notice the rounded corners which date it to the 1930s. Note the water tower on the roof.
Another striking piece of art covering the side of a six storey building. It was done by Brandon Many Ribs from the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota.
The clue is the satellite dishes on the roof. This is the NBC building. It marks the end of the park some three miles from its beginning.
So here we can only look north over the Hudson railway yards outside Penn Station where there is more abandoned land. There are plans to extend the Highline parkway in the future.