Traffic clotted the streets below.
Louise Lawler's "Triangle (adjusted to fit)"occupies the High Line art billboard.
Graffiti decorates the building canyons.
The High Line brings out the photographer (and model) in just about everyone.
Some of the look-outs seem to hover in New York's skyline.
Condo windows reflect the sculptural installations.
Some of the art resists easy interpretation.
Throngs of visitors approached the extension on West 34th Street which begins in the midst of a construction site.
Odd how the re-appropriation of abandoned railroad tracks produced a building boom.
Suddenly you're walking due west, toward the Hudson River.
More models and photographers.
Hudson Yards, the last large undeveloped tract in Manhattan, flanks the north side of the High Line extension which ends at the Javits Center, the glass building to the left in the distance.
I caught this man and his grandson in mid-descent.
The views to New Jersey were just getting good. They're wide open now, but for how long?
You really get a sense of what the High Line is built upon walking along the extension.
The mid-afternoon sun cast vividly delineated shadows on the gravel surface.
Original concrete pilings, festooned with a variety of materials including ribbons, bones and grass, punctuate the vegetation.
Once you start heading north, the extension loses a lot of its charm.
At one point, you're walking right over Hudson Yards, a lot now filled with Long Island Railroad trains going nowhere fast.
The final leg of the extension curves toward the Javits Center.
Across the West Side Highway, you pick up Hudson River Park, where there's also plenty to see, including this patriotic gift to the NYPD after 9/11.
Nearby, a ghost bike commemorates the tragic death of Carl Henry Nacht, a 56-year old doctor who was killed by an NYPD tow truck driver.
Approaching the Intrepid, a Muslim family stopped to enjoy the interactive fountain while someone else temporarily abandoned their picnic blanket for a better view.
This seagull house offers quite a contrast to the massive construction underway just a block or two north. Its river views cost a lot less and are unobstructed.
Another season of the Art Student League's Model to Monument project has begun just above 59th Street. Look for the young man swinging inside Natsuki Takauji's "Window."
A gorgeous willow tree provides the backdrop for Phyllis Sanfiorenzo's "Atabey's Land Haven."
Minako Yoshino's "Lovers" enjoy a little PDA, silhouetted by the cobalt blue skyline.
It's easy to overlook this sculpture which can't compete with its surroundings. I didn't see a sign identifying the artist.
Hudson River Park is beautiful even without the art, especially the abundant grasses.
I love how these young guys mirror the towers in New Jersey.
Lindsay McCosh's "Harbor for Industry" is a scattered installation. The gantry a few blocks north probably inspired the structural element.
I photographed this gantry when I moved into my first apartment, oh so long ago. It was decrepit even then.
As a child, I had a large magnet that reminded me of Janet Fekete-Bolton's "A Conversation with Nature."
Colored discs, suspended from looks like a roller coaster track, comprise Ana Sofia Marti's "Everyday."
Though less flashy, Riverside Park abuts more populous neighborhoods on the Upper West Side and still provides a wonderful setting for recreation of all kinds.
Pedestrians can use this mirror to avoid getting run down by bicyclists who lose my sympathy when they act is if they're competing in the Tour de France during peak periods of use.
By the time I approach my exit, the fall shadows have lengthened considerably.
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