Chelsea and The Jersey Boys

The nice weather seems to have left us behind, as we awoke today to a very cold and windy morning. My mom, Erin and I began the day by heading down to the Chelsea Market with the Reikens, Whites and Sussie. I had never been there when I lived in NYC and it was interesting to see the various fresh food and produce shops.

We then walked to the High Line, which is a relatively new park in Chelsea and the Meatpacking District that was constructed on the old elevated rail line. The development of the park is ongoing, and by 2011 it will extend even further up to 30th street.










It’s pretty neat to walk above the streets of Manhattan along a minute strip of tranquility. And the history of the park in quite interesting given that the railway was scheduled for demolition until a community-based non-profit formed and fought to save it for public use. Here’s a link to the website…

http://www.thehighline.org/design/high-line-design

There was even a nice view of the Empire State Building...

After visiting the park, we walked up to the theater district to see an afternoon showing of Jersey Boys. The performance was very good and gave me vivid flashbacks to my childhood, when my mom would listen to K-Earth 101 (“oldies but goodies”) on the radio while driving in our blue Chevy stationwagon.

Here's another picture of (the top of) the Empire State Building that I took during the walk back to the hotel...