When all sections are complete, the High Line will be a mile-and-a-half-long elevated park, running through the West Side neighborhoods of the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea and Clinton/Hell’s Kitchen. The park will feature an integrated landscape, combining meandering concrete pathways with naturalistic plantings. Fixed and movable seating, lighting, and special features will also be included in the park.

The High Line is located on Manhattan’s West Side. Section 1 of the High Line, which opened to the public on June 2009, runs from Gansevoort Street to 20th Street.  The entire park will run from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to 34th Street, between 10th & 11th Avenues.

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The Drawing Center is the only not-for-profit institution to focus on the exhibition of drawings. It provides opportunities for emerging and under-recognized artists, exhibits the diversity of drawings throughout history, and hopes to create a public dialogue on issues of art and culture. They also provide great public programs and workshops.

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New York City’s only Latino museum dedicated to Puerto Rican, Caribbean and Latin American art. Admission fees are otherwise a suggested contribution. Free walking tours on some weekends at 3:30pm. See website calendar for more details.

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The Center for Architecture is a hub for all interested in the built environment.  The Center for Architecture annually hosts 1000 day-time and evening programs that cover subjects related to architecture, planning, and design.

Ask to see the geothermal unit with is taller than the Empire State Building.  It heats and cools the center.

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The museum collection displays thoughtfully arranged artifacts of NYC’s history to entice viewers to learn more about the five boroughs. Some of the highlights of the collection include architectural remnants of city buildings, Statue of Liberty memorabilia, a geological display of New York’s underground composition, and a 1939 World’s Fair exhibit.

The City Reliquary has the distinction of being a window museum. People in the community pass it daily on their way to and from the subway, the grocery, or the coffee shop, or they stumble across it when they’re walking home from work via a different route.  The “Community Collections” storefront window has proudly displayed collections such as, Fionula Ross’s Vintage Thermoses, Christy Gast’s Commemorative Presidential Plates, and the Zucker Family’s Antique Pens.

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The museum’s mission is to promote financial literacy, and to empower people to better understand risk and reward in order to make more effective financial decisions. It is a teaching museum, preserving and exhibiting the importance and richness of the lessons of history while providing panels, speakers and exhibits about the dynamic world of finance and its markets, current practices and issues.

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