Last day in New York

Today we set off to walk the Highline, an old elevated rail line that use to service the businesses. Transporting freight from the port to the city businesses. It was decommissioned in the 1950’s and was going to be demolished in the1970’s when a group got together to save it and plant it out.

They have volunteers planting out many of the wild flowers that would have been on the land before white occupation.

We walked the whole distance and it was pretty busy.

Someone was peeking through the trees!

We headed for home but on the way bumped into a tall building. Don wanted to reinact Sleepless in Seattle and kept looking for the bear.

These workers were near the top. Not Don’s preferred job!

This was as close as we got to seeing the Statue of Liberty.




Just to prove we were there.






An interesting fact I learnt about New York. Each building has a water tower on top to give the water enough pressure but they are all made of wood to stop the water freezing in winter. You can see them below.

After we went home for a brief rest we visited the Tenement Museum. Very interesting but no pictures could be taken.

Finally we had a chinese meal before heading for home through the evening rain.

Back home Don read the New York Times.