When it comes to Valentine’s Day, dinner-and-a-movie is so past tense. If you’re bored of the norm and looking for a new way to celebrate, follow our guide to help you fall in love with both your sweetie and New York City:
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Five Fabulous Ideas for Celebrating Valentine’s Day
Taking a Tour of Manhattan’s High Line, Part 2
To continue our tour of The High Line from Taking a Tour of Manhattan’s High Line, Part 1, we’ll start with the “stairway to nowhere.”
Taking a Tour of Manhattan’s High Line, Part 1
Walking along the city’s most innovative public space, The High Line, you’ll find it difficult to believe that this was ever anything other than what it is today. Beautiful, landscaped, busy and evolving, today’s High Line gives only a suggestion of its previous function. Built in the 1930s, this formerly rusting and overgrown stretch of metal served as train tracks elevated thirty feet in the air, a solution to the many accidents occurring between freight trains and street-level traffic after street-level railroads were authorized in 1847. As you walk on this transformed elevated path, from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to 30th Street in Chelsea, you can spot the railroad tracks among the fields of flowers.
Best Ways to Explore New York City This Summer
Whether you’re a native New Yorker or a visitor, the sights and sounds of this spectacular city never get old. We invite you to be a tourist this summer, but stray from the ordinary and opt to explore the city from new and unique perspectives.