Here we go again...New York has really created some unique gathering spaces. The Highline is a new park space that opened about a year ago. A group has taken over the old elevated rail road track (kinda like how the "L" is overhead in Chicago) and turned it into a park. They've left the train tracks in some places, and in others they've covered the tracks and created walkways out of concrete or steel. The Hudson River comes into view in some places, in other places you see buildings from a raised perspective -- rather than from the ground. In some places you can look down and see the restaurants/traffic/pedestrians below.
The clock in the photo is to remind me of how "art" is built in to the space. There is one section that you walk thru that has a different "bell" ring...but there is only one "ring" per minute. We stood there for 3 minutes and we heard a cow bell, then a bicycle bell, then a clock chime...various "rings" like that go on for an hour. You couldn't see them, you could only hear them. Then on the hour (in our case, at 9:00) ALL 59 bells ring at once. It sounded like a one man band kinda clangy thing. Anyway, it was quite interesting and just another example of how art is incorporated all around the city in many creative ways.
