highline walk with chanda

 the morning sunshine lifted my spirits just a little from my initial missing morgana feelings and i thought it would be a good day for a walk on the high line.

 the high line is always busy these days as we get so many tourists. today it was about 35 degrees and since it's february, the tourist scene was quiet. that made me happy. i like that people enjoy touring our city, but without any downtime it can be stressful. we also deal with a lot of construction on the high line. when it first opened we had spectacular views of the hudson river, but with a new building going up, there will only be one peek of the river between the whitney museum and it's northern neighbor (which i think is a holdover from meatpacking days, which i think is peter luger. you can read an eater article about it here.

  thankfully, a glimpse of the empire is still available!

 looking down on tenth avenue and twentieth street in chelsea. we'll walk up that street to the northwest corner of ninth avenue where la bergamote cafe is. (chanda reminisced about meeting my nephew adam here several years ago. that was a fun visit with him! you can read the blog post here. actually, that was a later visit . . the one she is remembering is here. if you compare the pictures, you can see the northwest corner of tenth avenue minus the apartment building that chanda is standing before. i guess it used to be a parking garage.)

 general theological seminary occupies the block on twentieth and twenty first streets between ninth and tenth avenues. they have a beautiful campus of old red brick buildings and beautiful oak trees.

 there are also really lovely apartment buildings and townhouses on twentieth street. chelsea is such a lovely neighborhood and is also home to the old estate of clement clark moore who wrote, twas the night before christmas. i love imagining the poem taking place every christmas eve at a house on twenty first street, not far from the small children's park on tenth avenue dedicated to the author.

at la bergamote i had the eggs benedict and a cup of coffee and chanda had mushroom scrambled eggs and a cappucino. it was so nice to be there.