Art, Music, and Fun on New York City’s High Line

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The IAC Building designed by Frank Gehry is among the fascinating architecture visible from the High Line in New York City. Photo courtesy of Kennethchern/Dreamstime

I recently was enjoying a leisurely stroll along a path that leads through a treasure-trove of various architectural styles, museum-quality displays of art, and floral plantings that would make any gardener proud. I was walking the High Line, the elevated former railway that runs 30 feet above street level down the west side of Manhattan, New York.

Along the way, the path winds among a landscape of magnificent buildings that range from old to new, shabby to magnificent, uninspired to avant-garde and that serve industrial, commercial, and residential purposes.