The NYC High Line, I had to see it with my own eyes

Or maybe that should be, walk it with my own legs? "The High Line is a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. The High Line's design is a collaboration between James Corner Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Piet Oudolf." (source)
"Since opening in June 2009, the High Line has become an icon of American contemporary landscape architecture. The High Line's success has inspired cities throughout the United States to redevelop obsolete infrastructure as public space. The park became a tourist attraction and spurred real estate development in adjacent neighborhoods, increasing real-estate values and prices along the route. By September 2014, the park had nearly five million visitors annually, and by 2019, it had eight million visitors per year." (source)
The High Line is said to have been inspired by the Coulée verte René-Dumont (Promenade plantée) in Paris, which was completed in 1993. I had the pleasure of walking the Promenade plantée in 2018, and while I would have loved the chance to visit both structures in the spring or summer, that was not to be. It was January when I walked the Paris promenade and the final days of October when we were in NYC
Here's the view of Little Island (which I wrote about on Wednesday) from the High Line. The steel archway is an artifact from the Cunard-White Star building (a British shipping line) that used to operate on the (now gone) historic pier.
I walked the High Line twice during our NYC visit. The first time was with Andrew on a Saturday. It was packed with locals and tourists all taking in the sights.

The views from the High Line were at least half the fun.
You know who I am—a large-scale cast bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty wearing various cartoonish masks—by Paola Pivi. "The masks are stylized portraits of individuals whose personal experiences of freedom are directly connected to the United States" (source)
The mask on the statue in my photo is of Mahnaz Akbari, Mahnaz was among the limited number of Afghan women who were evacuated in August 2021 after the withdrawal of the United States military from Afghanistan.