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Where Does the High Line Start and End?

Updated: March 7, 2024

High Line Park is one of the most popular and unique parks in NYC with nearly 8 million people visiting it annually.

This special public greenspace, built on a abandoned elevated commercial freight rail line, is located on Manhattan's west side.

In 2006, a non-profit organization called the Friends of the High Line repurposed the tracks, eventually turning them into the incredible 1.45 miles (2.33 km) greenspace we have today.

It was modeled after the Promenade Plantée in Paris, a tree-lined elevated walkway, also built on an abandoned rail line.

It's not just tourists who walk the High Line! Although I always recommend a visit to my out of town friends and family, I like to head there myself on summer evenings, as do many other locals.

From this free public park, you'll have amazing views of the Hudson River. You'll pass by stunning architectural designs, historic buildings, and even public art installations.

It runs through some popular neighborhoods including Greenwich Village, the Meatpacking District, Chelsea, and Midtown Manhattan.

There is so much to see and do on the High Line that a visit is absolutely worth your time.

I've written this guide to help you with your visit. It includes tips on planning your visit, information on guided tours, a self-guided tour, and tips from locals and travellers.

I hope you have a memorable trip to this iconic New York City landmark!


PLAN YOUR VISIT

Below I've listed the High Line hours, "starting point", entry points, and how to get there by various means of transportation.


High Line Hours

The High Line is beautiful in every season and at all times of the day, but try to make it for sunset if you can!

  • April 1 to November 30, 7:00 AM – 10:00 PM
  • December 1 to March 31, 7:00 AM – 8:00 PM 

Highline Starting Point

There is no starting point to the High Line. You can enter the High Line from multiple access points, so the start of the High Line is wherever you choose to enter! 

Think of the High Line as a bookshelf with a bookend on either side.

The northern end of the High Line is at West 34th Street & 12th Avenue.

High Line Entry Points

Its southern end is at Gansevoort St. & Washington St. near the Whitney Museum of American Art.

This is where our guided walks and GPS-audio tours start.

As the High Line runs for nearly 20 blocks, there are multiple access points between W. 14th St. and W. 34th St.

Ideally, you want to walk the full length of the park and should enter at either the southern or northern end. 

But even if you can only walk along part of the park it is well worth the time. 


High Line Entry Points

Here is a list of all access points to the High Line. All the access points have stairs. Those that have elevators and ramps are noted.

Click on the map for a larger version.

  • Gansevoort Street and Washington Street (elevator access)
  • 14th Street (elevator access)
  • 16th Street (elevator access)
  • 17th Street (temporary access)
  • 18th Street (under construction)
  • 20th Street
  • 23rd Street (elevator access)
  • 26th Street
  • 28th Street
  • 30th Street (elevator access)
  • 10th Avenue
  • 30th Street and 10th Avenue
  • Crossroads Connection (ramp access)
  • 30th Street and 11th Avenue
  • 34th Street (ramp access) 

Below, we have included Google Maps links under the subway directions. You can use these links regardless of how you choose to arrive.


How To Get There by Subway

  • The northern end (map) of the High Line
    • A/C/E to 34th St/Penn Station or the 7 train to 34th St/Hudson Station
  • Middle of High Line
    • C/E to 23rd St. 1 train to 18th St., 23rd St. or 28th St
  • The southern end (map) of the High Line:
    • A/C/E to 14th St; 1/2/3 trains to 14th St.

For information on how to buy a MetroCard and make the most of your money, read our blog post.


How to Get There by Bus

  • Crosstown M34, M23, M14
  • Uptown-Downtown M11, M20

For information on how to buy a MetroCard and make the most of your money, read our blog post.


How to Get There By Car

Driving to the High Line?

Use Google Maps for directions, and Parking Panda to reserve a parking spot in the area.


GUIDED TOURS OF THE HIGH LINE

We hope you will give us the opportunity to show you this most unusual and fascinating city park on one of our tour guide-led walking tours.

We offer several pay-what-you-wish tours of the High Line including:


Self-Guided + GPS-Enabled Audio Tour

A GPS-enabled audio tour of the High Line narrated by one of our professional guides where you can hear some of the same great stories and historical facts you would on our live tour.


Slide Show

30-minute video tour on Youtube.

Save more money with a discount tourist pass and be sure to check out our other free, self-guided tours of NYC.


Self-Guided Paper Tour

A self-guided tour with a map is located below.

You can use this tour right on your smartphone or if you want to save battery power and not use up data minutes, you can download the PDF file here: High Line Self Guided Tour.

Both self-guided tours should take you between 60 to 90 minutes to complete.


STOPS ON THE SELF GUIDED TOUR

Click here for the complete High Line Self-Guided Tour Map

Highline Tour Map A-H

Stop A -  Start - Southern entrance to the High Line

The Manhattan Refrigeration Company built the building you see before you in 1898. The building totaled 1.6 million cubic feet of insulated storage space and held four 150-ton refrigeration machines.  

The company carried brine-cooled water supplied from the Hudson River in pipes under West Street to this building.

Kept cool inside was everything from fruits and vegetables, furs and of course, meat.  Buildings such as these were common before home refrigeration became the standard.

Today, the High Line starts here, but when the rails above grade were first set up, the Manhattan Refrigeration Company built the section of their complex to allow the trains to stop and continue south down 5 more blocks.

Today, the building is closed up with green and gray tiles.  The circle shows you where the trains once passed through the building.


Stop B - Standard Hotel

As you are walking up the stairs to the High Line, you can't help but notice the large concrete hotel directly in front of you.

This high-end hotel boasts 338 rooms, all with stunning views of the city and the beautiful park below.

If you want to satisfy the voyeuristic side, then look closely inside some of the open windows.

The Standard Hotel was a topic of controversy when it first opened when word got out that the hotel might be encouraging its curvy employees and guests to put on peep shows in its ceiling-high windows.  

To read about it, check out this New York Magazine article.  

Read the hotel's TripAdvisor reviews.


Stop C - Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney is dedicated to the collection and display of 20th-century and contemporary American Art.

Whitney Museum High Line

Its new location is 9 floors and 200,000 sq. ft (19,000 sqm) of floor space, including 50,000 sq. ft (4,700 sqm) of exhibit space, a 170-seat theater, a restaurant, retail space, and much more.

The building was designed by Renzo Piano.   

This was also the location for Fort Gansevoort, a defensive structure built by the U.S. federal government in preparation for a British invasion during the War of 1812 as well as the customs building where Herman Melville once worked.

Visit the Whitney Museum website for more information on the museum.

Continue along the High Line and look to your left.  You should be looking at refrigerated trucks (lorries) backed onto low-lying buildings.


Stop D - Gansevoort Market Meat Center

There are still 9 meatpacking companies still located in the Meatpacking District, a far cry from the approximately 200 that were here decades earlier.

The Meat Center used to be larger, but it gave up space now being used for the new Whitney Museum building in exchange for an extension of its lease.

Continue along the High Line on a narrow passage through a thicket of small birch and serviceberry trees (known as the Gansevoort Woodland) until you pass underneath the Standard Hotel and reach the intersection of West 13th St.

There are over 200 species of plants and trees on the High Line.  They were designed to mimic the natural growth that occurred on the tracks during the High Line's period of abandonment.


Stop E - Hogs and Heifers

Just before you walk underneath another building straddling the High Line, look down to the street on your right.

Opened in the early 1990s, when rent in the Meatpacking was still very low, Hogs and Heifers (hogs as in Harley motorcycles and heifers, which means virgin cows) was a neighborhood institution.

It was almost guaranteed to smell like stale beer and something worse, relatively cheap beer, attractive and lightly dressed bartenders, who along with patrons, are known for dancing on the bar.

Paul McCartney is believed to have danced on the bar. 

The movie Coyote Ugly was filmed right down the street and many credit Hogs and Heifers with inspiring the rather forgetful flick.

The owners of Coyote Ugly in the East Village would disagree. Apparently, the filmmakers weren't impressed with the actual Coyote bar and wanted to use Hogs and Heifers. 

The filmmakers were refused permission to film there when they refused to change the name of the film. Instead, they set up a fake bar to look like Hogs and Heifers down the street.

Now cross to the other side of the High Line and look out at the view from West 13th Street out to the Hudson River, where you should see the cast iron shell of what was once Pier 54's gateway.


Stop F - Pier 54

Over a century ago, Pier 54 was a part of the Chelsea Piers. Imagine the great trans-Atlantic passenger ships docked here in southern Manhattan on the Hudson River.

Pier 54 belonged to the Cunard Line and it was from this pier in 1915 that the RMS Lusitania disembarked before being sunk by a German U-boat, precipitating U.S. entry into WW1.

When the RMS Carpathia rescued the survivors of the Titanic in 1912, they brought them here to Pier 54.

Now stroll underneath this second building until you reach the intersection of West 14th Street.  Look to your left out to the Hudson River, out to a large beige structure.


Stop G - Pier 57

Pier 57, built in the early '50s, is remarkable in that it is built on floating concrete caissons, or boxes.

Constructed up the Hudson River, it was then floated down to its current Chelsea location. It once housed the City's Department of Marine and Aviation.

In April 2013, the city decided to transform Pier 57 into an integrated retail and cultural space, featuring over 100,000 square feet of park space, retail, film, and food spaces.  

One of the most interesting plans includes re-purposing used shipping containers as pop-up food and clothing stalls.

Continue north on the Highline past a few benches to your right and to a playful water arrangement on your left until you reach the intersection of West 15th Street.  

You are walking through the Diller-Von Furstenberg Sundeck, which contains grasses, perennials, and shrubs, including several wetland species.


Stop H - Chelsea Market

Most of the 22 buildings you see around 14th and 15th Streets were built for the National Biscuit Company.

This is where trains brought butter, flour, sugar, and shortening to create the Saltines, Oreos, Fig Newtons, Vanilla Wafers, Barnum’s Animal Crackers, and Mallomars.

According to legend, the Oreo was invented right here.  

In 1959, Nabisco moved operations to Fair Lawn NJ, precipitating a decline in the area's commercial real estate.

Today, the complex, anchored by Chelsea Market, features a shopping mall, an urban food outlet, television productions facilities and office shopping mall, urban food outlet, television production facilities, and offices, including Oxygen and the Food Network (Emeril Live) as well as offices for Major League Baseball (MLB) and Google.

Get more information from our Chelsea Market post.


Click here for the complete High Line Map

High Line Tour Map I-Q


Now walk underneath the main Nabisco building and look to your left.


Stop I - Southern Spur

The “spurs” of the High Line are curved tracks that veer off of the main track.  

The Southern Spur connected the tracks with the Nabisco Warehouse and the rail cars could go right into the building. You can still see “NBC” written on the Southern Spur, which stood for National Biscuit Company (aka Nabisco.)

Once you come out from underneath, you shall have reached West 16th Street.  Stand on the left side of the High Line.


Stop - J - Merchants Refrigerating Company Warehouse

The railroad tracks that make up the High Line led directly inside this building, which opened in 1918.

At that time, merchants and businesses did not have personal refrigeration systems. Instead, they rented out space in building such as this one to keep things cold or frozen.

This is also known as the Northern Spur, designed to evoke the wild landscape that once was common on the High Line.

Continue north along the High Line until you reach a seating area overlooking 10th Avenue.


Stop  K - 10th Avenue Overlook 

This seating area allows for a rare view of a busy avenue. Pedestrians can sit and rest while looking out at the madness of 10th Avenue.

No matter how bad the traffic looks while you sit there; remember that it doesn't even come close to being as bad as it once was!

Tenth Avenue in the late 19th century was known as “Death Avenue.”  The streets were so clogged with wagons and pushcarts, not to mention freight trains being hauled down the tracks, that crossing the street was a game of chance.

Hundreds of people were killed on this avenue between 1880 and 1920. The danger and congestion of 10th and 11th Avenues were key factors in the decision to elevate the railroad tracks.


As you walk back up to the High Line from the overlook, you should notice a grove a 3 flower maple trees known as the 10th Ave Square. Look south in the distance and you can see the Statue of Liberty.  

Continue north until you reach West 17th Street and look out toward the Hudson River on your left.


Stop L - Pier 59

It is hard to picture what the Chelsea Piers used to look like while gazing at the modern complex that it is today.

But the piers on the west side of Manhattan used to accommodate massive ocean liners from lines such as the Cunard and White Star Lines.

Though Pier 59 today is the location of the Chelsea Brewing Company, it was once the intended destination for an eagerly anticipated arrival in New York: the Titanic.

After the tragic sinking of the ship, survivors were brought to New York on the R.M.S. Carpathia.

While the Carpathia unloaded the survivors further down at Pier 54, the ship first made a brief stop at Pier 59 to unload the lifeboats from the Titanic.

They then continued back to Pier 54, where thousands of grief-stricken people awaited the survivors.

The white building that looks strangely like an iceberg is the IAC Building, designed by Frank Gehry in 2007.  

IAC is the parent company that owns Newsweek and Match.com.

Now continue north until you reach West 18th Street and look to the low-lying building on your left side.


High Line Architecture

Stop M - Site of the Roxy Nightclub

The Roxy Nightclub opened as a roller disco in 1978 and was described as “the Studio 54 of roller rinks.” In the 1980s, the club became a venue for hip-hop music and sponsored break-dancing competitions.

The Roxy continued to change with each decade and hosted one of the city’s largest weekly gay dance nights in the 1990s, called “Roxy Saturday.”

Artists that graced the Roxy during this time period included Cher, Madonna, Bette Midler, and Cyndi Lauper.  Sadly, this legendary venue closed its doors for the very last time in 2007.

Continue north again through a series of narrow passageways until you get to West 19th Street.  

However, along the way, see if you can line the Empire State Building up with a tower at the Theological Seminary.  

You are now walking through an area known as the Chelsea Grasslands, an area with a mix of colorful meadow grasses and perennials, all chosen to add color and texture throughout the year.


Stop N - The Kitchen

The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, the first building on your left on the south side of the street, is a non-profit art and performance space.

The organization began in 1971 and takes its name from its original location: the kitchen of the Mercer Arts Center, where video artists showed their work.

Though the organization was originally established to display the work of video artists, it expanded to include all kinds of art and performance.

They focus primarily on local and emerging artists whose work is experimental in nature.

Alumni of The Kitchen include Phillip Glass and Brian Eno, and The Beastie Boys gave an early performance there in 1983.  

When the organization moved to its current location in 1986 it was considered a bold and slightly odd choice, given that the neighborhood at the time was primarily auto repair shops.

The New York Times said of the move, “This neighborhood will be the next SoHo.” (Prophetic, NY Times!)

Continue until you reach West 20th Street and look out to the large red complex to your right.


Stop O - The General Theological Seminary and Clement Clark Moore

General Theological Seminary

This entire neighborhood was once a large family estate called “Chelsea.”  

The estate was named after its original owner, Maj. Thomas Clark. Major Clark was a British veteran of the French and Indian War, and he named his estate after a London hospital that served war veterans.

His estate was passed down through the family and eventually came into the possession of his grandson, Clement Clark Moore.

When the Commissioners Plan of 1811 (which created Manhattan's grid system) was laid out Clark Moore was extremely opposed to it.

The plan called for 9th Avenue to cut directly through his estate.

Eventually, he realized that he couldn’t fight the growing city and he sold off his land in lots to moneyed New Yorkers.

He set aside his apple orchard, however. This was donated to the Episcopal Diocese so that a seminary could be built there.

The Neo-Gothic structure was built in 1927.  It is still standing and takes up most of 20th and 21st streets between 9th and 10th Avenues.

Clement Clark Moore’s legacy isn’t limited to the seminary, however.  

He composed the poem “A Visit from St. Nicholas” for his children. Today it is known as “Twas the Night Before Christmas.”


Stop P - Manhattan Project Testing

These warehouses off to the left of the High Line on West 20th Street held several tons of uranium during the 1940s.

This was done as a part of the Manhattan Project, which was the name given to the research and development project that created the first atomic bomb.

Continue north until you reach West 21st Street and look to the church on your right side.


Stop Q - Catholic Church of the Guardian Angels

This seems like an odd spot for a church. The Church of the Guardian Angels was built specifically in conjunction with the elevated railroad.

The congregation had been meeting at a church located further uptown, directly in the path of the coming rail lines, so they were forced to demolish their building and relocate.

The new church was built in 1930, right up against the new High Line. Sunday mass was often accompanied by the rattling of trains going by.

Click here for the complete High Line Map

High Line Tour Map R-V

Stop R - The Dia Foundation

Today, West 22nd Street is in the heart of the Chelsea art gallery district.

When the renowned Dia Foundation opened a four-story converted warehouse in 1987 called Dia: Chelsea, it was just the beginning. At its height, Dia: Chelsea had 60,000 visitors per year.

It closed for renovations in February 2004, but the repairs needed for the building were so vast that the organization sold the building for $38.55 million in February 2007.  

The Dia Foundation considered opening a museum at the entrance to the High Line, but in 2009 they announced that they would be back on W 22nd Street.

The new Dia will have 15,670 square feet of gallery space and 3625 square feet of rooftop space.

Now continue north one block to West 23rd Street, where you will reach a futuristic-looking steel and glass apartment building adjacent to the High Line called HL-23, designed by Neil Denari.

The creation of the High Line has been the catalyst for the construction of many new apartment buildings with multi-million dollar units.

NOTE: If you are considering a hop-on-hop-off bus ticket while in NYC, keep in mind that Big Bus Tours has a bus stop here at 10th Ave. and 23rd Street.  

Be sure to read our guide on which New York City bus tour is best for you.


Stop S - London Terrace Apartments

London-Terrace
Image courtesy of www.livinthehighline.com

This massive apartment complex to your right on the other side of 10th Avenue was once the largest in the world.

Construction began in 1929 on this complex, which includes about 1700 apartments and an Olympic-sized swimming pool.

The project was headed by Henry Mandel, and he selected the location for its proximity to Midtown Manhattan.

He wanted to create modestly priced housing for white-collar workers.  He met resistance, however, in the form of Tillie Hart.

Tillie was living in a subleased house that she insisted she had the right to be in until May of 1930.  

The underlying lease for the house has expired, so Mandel has legal rights to the property. Still, Tillie Hart refused to budge.  The construction advanced and all of the houses around hers were demolished.  

Tillie held firm. She barricaded herself inside and fended off intruders by throwing bricks and stones at them.

In October of 1929, the police entered her house and moved all of her possessions to the sidewalk out front. She slept inside on the bare floor. The next day she gave in and moved out.  

Her house was demolished and the cornerstone for the London Terrace Apartments was laid.  

Tillie Hart maybe got a moment of satisfaction, however, when Henry Mandel, the man who had torn down her house, ended up ruined by his building project.  

The building, which had cost $25,000,000 to build, fell into default by 1933. Mandel declared personal bankruptcy with debts of $14,000,000 (about $220 million adjusted for today’s inflation.)


Stop T - Cass Gilbert Building 

On the north side of W 25th St is a somewhat nondescript building that was built for the RC Williams Wholesale Grocery Company.  

RC Williams had started off as a small family store on Maiden Lane in 1809, but by the time this building was constructed in 1927-28, they were prosperous enough to employ one of America’s top architects: Cass Gilbert.  

People who are familiar with Gilbert’s other work, such as the Woolworth Building, the US Supreme Court in Washington DC, or the Alexander Hamilton Custom House, are surprised when they see this plain building.  

It has none of the ornamentations of Gilbert’s better-known works.  

This was entirely on purpose- simplicity was the goal here.  Gilbert said, “There is something very fine about a great, gray mass of the building.  

All one color, all one tone, yet modified by the sunlight or shadow to the pearly grey of wonderful delicacy.” That’s a good enough explanation for me!

Now walk north to West 26th Street and look left (west) to the end of the block to 11th Avenue.


Stop U - Starrett Lehigh Building

This block-long building was a warehouse and freight terminal that opened in 1932. Trains could be driven directly into a space on the ground floor of the building.  

This massive structure was a joint venture of Starrett real-estate ventures and the Lehigh Valley Railroad, and the building has 26 million cubic feet of space.  

Its lines and rounded edges make it a relatively graceful-looking building, particularly for a warehouse. It is beauty meets function.   

The lot that it is built on was also the site of the former Lehigh Valley Railroad freight terminal.  

The building hit hard times during the Great Depression. Starrett was bought out, and the Lehigh Valley Railroad held on until 1944 when they too disassociated themselves from the building.  

The rail tracks were removed in 1966, and the Helmsley real estate concern bought the building in 1998.  

Ownership has changed hands a few more times, but current tenants of the building include Martha Stewart Omnimedia and Tommy Hilfiger USA.


Stop V - US Mail Distribution Center

US Mail Distribution Center New York

This is where most of New York’s mail is processed. In 2001 this center had a serious scare when it processed mail that had been laced with anthrax, causing panic in New York.  

Though the building is a little worse for wear on the outside, the rooftop has had quite a makeover and is one of the largest green rooftops in New York City.  

The Distribution Center sits where the Hudson Railroad Depot used to be.  

The Hudson Railroad controlled the lines that went down the west side of Manhattan, and the west side tracks used to be used for both passenger and freight trains.

When Cornelius Vanderbilt bought all of the rail lines in New York, including the Hudson, the west side tracks were designated as “freight only.”  

This was because he wanted all passenger lines to go through the new terminal at 42nd St: Grand Central Depot.  

Before this switch, however, the Hudson Railroad Depot at West 30th Street had a very famous visitor.  

On February 15, 1861, Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln disembarked at the Hudson Depot for his first visit to New York City as the President of the United States.  He was greeted by cheering crowds.  

Four years later, on April 25, 1865, mourners accompanied Lincoln’s body, which has lain in state at City Hall the day before, to the 30th Street Depot for the beginning of a cross-country trip that would bring Lincoln back to his hometown of Springfield, IL.


Stop W - Hudson Yards

Hudson Yards is a large commercial and residential complex with a shopping mall and an open space where public events are hosted.

This is where the incredible observation deck, Edge, is located. Also the unique sculpture/structure The Vessel is here.


HOTELS AND ACCOMMODATION  

Accommodations near the High Line range from luxury exclusive hotels, chain hotels like Hiltons and Holiday Inns, and cozy bed & breakfast type inns. Prices can range from $125 to $400.

Below are 2 hotels we think are affordable, comfortable places to stay close to the High Line.

  • Chelsea Lodge 318 W. 20th St., between 8th and 9th Aves. 212-243–4499. Perfect for those on a budget and who don’t need a lot of amenities. Restrooms are but each room has its own shower and sink. If you plan to be out a lot, this is a great choice. – Just a block away from the High Line, Chelsea art galleries, and Chelsea Market, the lodge’s location cannot be beaten.
  • The Jane  113 Jane St. near West St. 212- 924-6700. An affordable boutique hotel near the southern end of the High Line. During the early to mid-1900s, this small, maritime hotel housed sailors arriving in the ports just across the street. In 1912, many Titanic survivors were put up here. Today the rooms are modern, but pod-like, with single twin beds. An unusual but highly-praised hotel.

For even more options in the area, check out our post on Where to Stay in NYC.


RESTAURANTS AND FOOD

Near the High Line and neighboring Chelsea, you can find amazing food for not a lot of money!

One of the best and easiest choices for food is Chelsea Market at 9th Avenue between 15th and 16th Sts.  

Some other great options are:

  • Artichoke Basille Pizza 114 10th Ave. bet. 17th and 18th Sts. This is one of the best pizza places in New York City, with other locations in Greenwich Village and the East Village. Grab a slice of their rich, creamy signature artichoke slice or their traditional red sauce Margherita slice. You cannot go wrong!
  • Empire Diner 210 10th Ave. at 21st St.  A local favorite housed in a historic train dining car serving up American diner classics.
  • Brooklyn Bagel & Co. 286 8th Ave b/t 24th St & 25th St. No need to leave Manhattan to get a great ‘Brooklyn bagel’. Sandwiches and salads are also available.

ART GALLERIES

Around the High Line and Chelsea area, there are more than 300 galleries most of which are located along the side streets (from 20th to 27th streets) between 10th and 11th Avenues.

You can find every style and medium of art, from paintings, installation art, sculpture, and more.

The most well-known galleries, all on streets between the High Line and 11th Ave. are the David Zwirner Gallery 525 W. 19th St., Hauser Wirth  511 W.18th St., and Robert Miller Gallery 524 W. 26th St.


TIPS FROM LOCALS AND TRAVELERS

While we've done our best to provide all the information you'll to have a successful visit to the highline, you might have specific questions of your own that you'd like answered.

Our New York City Travel Tips group on Facebook is the perfect place to look for those answers. With more than 236,000 members, there's always someone willing to provide help.

Here are a few examples of interesting and helpful tips provided by members of our group:

  1. This visitor wanted know whether she could start her walk at The Vessel and go to Chelsea Market. Here is what our readers had to say.

2. Speaking of... note that the Vessel is currently closed to the public. However, there are still other places to visit in the area.

3. Looking for places to eat in the area? Our readers have some recommendations, a few of which were mentioned above.


4. Can you see any iconic landmarks from the Highline? Yes you can!

This visitor found the experience of walking the Highline magical and memorable.

For even more information about the highline, or about anything at all in the New York City area, please feel free to ask for advice on the Free Tours By Foot New York City Travel TipsFacebook page.


About The Author

Stephen Pickhardt

Stephen is the CEO of Free Tours by Foot and has overseen the transformation of a local walking tour company into a global tour community and traveler’s advice platform. He has personally led thousands of group tours in the US and Europe, and is an expert in trip planning and sightseeing, with a focus on budget travelers. Stephen has been published and featured in dozens of publications including The Wall Street Journal, BBC, Yahoo, Washington.org, and more.
Updated: March 7th, 2024
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