more pics of NY: downtown becomes centra; the WTC seems to have moved further north and east
By Tom Teicholz at 16 June, 2009, 2:21 pm
Here’s a shot of the new Highline — which I took from a terrace at the downtown Standard Hotel — and let me say that corner of New York is still hopping — not sure how much biz the retail shops are doing but with the Chelsea markets and the Gansevoort Hotel, the Standard, and Pastis and the other restaurants — I’m just waiting for the Melrose Place like show set there.
I also found myself down by the site of the former WTC — I had gone downtown to see the exhibit on Irene Nemerovsky (of Suite Francaise) at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, which I found as fascinating as her life was tragic (I am on record as being not a huge fan of her novel, but the exhibit does a great job of presenting the facts on her life and leaving it to the viewer to decide how they feel about her choices and her work.).
Anyhow, a whole new neighborhood has grown in Battery Park and the Financial district has become residential so strollers abound and people shlepping groceries and all of it is quite strange — which led me to being suprised when I came upon the WTC site to find that it now stood north and east of where it resided in my memory (which is to say in my mind’s eye it stood at the edge of Manhattan but there’s been so much development around it that that’s no longer true.
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