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Destinations, New York

New York City Sights: A Highline Sanctuary in the Urban Jungle

Starting in the Meatpacking District and running almost entirely parallel to the Hudson River into Midtown is the New York City Highline, which, as I discovered last week during NYC’s Climate Week, is much more than a walkway with foliage. The Highline is a former train track for the New York Central Railroad that was just recently repurposed as a linear park.

As world leaders descended upon the city and rallies reverberated through finance districts and central Manhattan for Climate Week NYC 2014, I visited the city’s newest and most popular repurposed park to see how NYC can be green. Continue reading “New York City Sights: A Highline Sanctuary in the Urban Jungle” →

Destinations, Washington DC

DC Destinations: Jazz in the Garden

A DC summer can have some miserable moments, especially when all the important people doing important things have to face the heat and humidity in their important clothes. Whew! DC went directly from polar vortex to summer sweat, but everyone is still pretty happy that they are not wearing their parkas.

As one of my coworkers said to me today, as soon as it is warm out, regardless if the weather is heat stroke worthy and “10,000% humidity”, Washingtonians love to crowd together outside and drink. One such event happens every Friday evening on government property: Jazz in the Garden at the National Gallery of Art. Continue reading “DC Destinations: Jazz in the Garden” →