The morning of Saturday, October 1st, my Discover New York (DNY) class met at West 4th Street in Manhattan for a walking tour of Greenwich Village. On the tour, which was led by Professor Lazrus, we got to view historical places and things we had talked about in class when discussing New York City in the 1800's, including tenement apartments and hand-blown glass windows. We also saw how carriage houses and factories of that time have been converted into restaurants, garages, and even theaters, and got to walk on an original cobblestone street.
The second part of our tour was especially exciting to me, since it involved walking on the "High Line," a recently built park on what used to be elevated train tracks. The park, which is filled with plants indigenous to the area before it was industrialized, helped give us a glimpse of New York's past days of greenery.
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| A row of tenement housing |
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| What was once a carriage house is now the Cherry Lane Theatre. |
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| High Line railroad tracks with vegetation |
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| Me with classmates Justin, Randy, and Nil on the High Line |
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