The High Line

Vik realised there was an amazing bagel shop near our hotel and was out the door to get a breakfast bagel even while remembering we were meeting Anu and Marty for Brunch.  I had a modest buttered bagel but he had The Works and it was apparently delicious.  We met Anu at Upland an upscale relaxed restaurant in a lovely room next door to the old Armoury.  The Armoury itself looks very closed up but is a huge old building so someone must have plans for it.  We noticed that Herman Melville wrote Billy Budd next door.  They don’t have blue plaque equivalent so that was a rare acknowledgement of cultural history.  

We decided to walk the High Line and to start at the far end for once.  Annoyingly a lot of the entry points were closed so we wandered around a lot, with others, looking for a way on.  Once up there we were fairly shocked by how cold it was.  Of course all the herbaceous plants were either died back or desiccated but I rather loved its winters look.  Quite a lot of it was being restored or repaired though so it wasn’t as enthralling as last time I was on it. I do hope they look after it.  I like this picture though, Vik looking out and a bit of art. 

We came down into the now ludicrously upscale Meat Packing district, even more than when I was here last, and scuttled gratefully into Soho House for tea to get out of the cold.  

Dinner was Peruvian at Artesano which was a bit too quiet when we arrived  but which had livened up by the time we left.