Brick buildings of West Washington Market & open air Gansevoort Market (foreground), New York City, 1888, wood engraving on paper. Artist Unknown. Image courtesy Clark Art InstituteWest Washington Market (buildings in rear) & open air Gansevoort Market (foreground) 1907. Photographer unknown.Open air Gansevoort Market, 1900. Photo: Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy, The New York Public Library33rd St. and 11th Ave. in the decades before the High Line. Photo: Kalmbach PublishingSt. John’s Terminal, early 1930s. Photo: Kalmbach PublishingThe “West Side Cowboy” passing 26th Street. Photo: Kalmbach Publishing Co.S.S. Carpathia docked at Chelsea Piers, 1912. According to the NYC Municipal Archive, historians suspect this photograph was probably taken after Carpathia arrived with survivors of the Titanic disaster. Photo: Municipal Archives, City of New YorkA century later the Cunard Line’s Queen Elizabeth passes Pier 54, January 17, 2012Joel Sternfeld’s early images of the abandoned High Line. Photo: courtesy Joel Sternfeld
There are other wonderful parks in the neighborhood. One of the joys of Hudson River Park is the Carousel at Pier 62 with its hand-carved animals native to the Hudson River Valley
Wolf, sea horses & black bearWild turkey, crawfish & cormorantUnicorn, mallard duck, sea turtleDeer, horseshoe crab & eelHabor seal and pups Black bear, rabbit & sea horses