Jun 22nd, 2011 at 5:30PM:
In a town where 500 square foot apartments can fetch $4,000 a month, the installation of a small slice of lawn calls for a mayoral press conference. And Mayor Bloomberg was there on June 8 for the opening of the second phase of the High Line, New York's most innovative park, built on an abandoned elevated rail line on the far West Side.
Years in the making, the new section includes a ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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New York's Most Fascinating Park, Floating Above the City
Jun 22nd, 2011 at 5:30PM:
In a town where 500 square foot apartments can fetch $4,000 a month, the installation of a small slice of lawn calls for a mayoral press conference. And Mayor Bloomberg was there on June 8 for the opening of the second phase of the High Line, New York's most innovative park, built on an abandoned elevated rail line on the far West Side.
Years in the making, the new section includes a ...Bronx Zoo cobra on the loose takes Manhattan...and Twitter
Mar 29th, 2011 at 11:00AM: On Friday, an adolescent Egyptian cobra escaped from New York's Bronx Zoo.
The reptile house closed immediately after her escape, and zookeepers are saying she could take weeks to come out of hiding. While we can't vouch for the authenticity of the snake taking Manhattan, you can follow her adventures on Twitter, where @bronxzooscobra has been chronicling the travels of the errant snake with over ...Ten budget travel tips for New York City
Dec 1st, 2010 at 10:00AM:
New York can be crazy expensive. $8 for a bottle of beer. $300/night for a hotel room. $400 for dinner at famed Japanese restaurant Masa. As someone who spent most of 2008-09 writing about the Big Apple for Gadling and who's lived here over 7 years, it's a sad fact I've come to know all too well. But here's another shocking fact I've discovered about my adopted hometown: if you know the right ...Views at NYC's new High Line Park
Aug 17th, 2009 at 2:00PM: The High Line has been open for a couple of months now, but in case you haven't made it to NYC (or the west side) yet, we took some photos of the truly beautiful new park in the sky. As we noted in "New York's High Line Park stories," the first section to be opened (and the one we photographed) was/is the section from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street, stretching through the Meatpacking District ...New York's High Line Park stories
Jul 14th, 2009 at 4:00PM:
In case you haven't heard the hype, New York City had an abandoned, above-ground train track running from the Meatpacking District to Hell's Kitchen. The historical track (authroized back in 1847) was going to be torn down, until some smart folks figured out how to save it: Make it a park. The last train ran the track in the 1980s. A Chelsea resident and railroad enthusiast Peter Obletz worked ...
