Today we went over to Staten Island on the Staten Island Ferry, followed by the recently opened High Line walk in the meat packing district back in Manhattan…
We began our adventure at 3pm by catching the train down to the the very bottom tip of Manhattan Island. Being such a nice sunny Saturday afternoon the tourists were out in force! We caught the ferry over to Staten Island taking some photos as we went. We arrived at the Staten Island Ferry terminal and went for a quick wander around the surrounding neighborhood…. not much is happening near the Staten Island Ferry Terminal. We had a quick pub meal and a beer at one of the few nearby restaurants and went back to Manhattan. Here are some pictures to prove we went:
After we returned from Staten Island we traveled up the west side of Manhattan and had a look at the new High Line gardens. This walk is a 2.3 kilometer elevated freight railroad, built in the 1930’s until it was abandoned in the 1980’s and began to grow a random variety of weeds and plants along the tracks. These plants were the inspiration for the redevelopment of the High Line into an above ground garden. 50 million dollars later these gardens finally opened to the public on June 2009.
