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Robert Hammond on The High Line
Co-founder and executive director of Friends of The High Line, Robert Hammond shares his High Line high-
lights: 'What I love most about The High Line are its hidden moments, like at the Tenth Ave cut-out near 17th St,
most people sit on the bleachers, but if you turn the other way, you can see the Statue of Liberty far away in the
harbor. Architecture buffs will love looking down 18th St, and up on 30th is my favorite moment - a steel cut-out
where you can see the cars underneath.'
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Rubin Museum of Art
MUSEUM
GOOGLE MAP
This is the first museum in the Western world dedicated to the art of the Himalayas and
surrounding regions. Its impressive collections include embroidered textiles from China,
metal sculptures from Tibet, Pakistani stone sculptures and intricate Bhutanese paintings,
as well as ritual objects and dance masks from various Tibetan regions, spanning from the
2nd to the 19th centuries.
(
212-620-5000;
www.rmanyc.org
; 150 W 17th St at Seventh Ave; adult/child
$10/free, 6-10pm Fri free;
11am-5pm Mon & Thu, to 9pm Wed, to 10pm Fri, to 6pm Sat & Sun;
1 to 18th St)
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Chelsea Hotel
While the future of this infamous hotel remains unclear after being sold to a luxury deve-
loper in 2013, its legendary status remains unshakeable. Featuring ornate iron balconies
and no fewer than seven plaques declaring its literary landmark status, the place has
played a major role in pop-culture history.
It's here that Jack Kerouac allegedly crafted
On the Road,
and it's where Arthur C
Clarke wrote
2001: A Space Odyssey
. Dylan Thomas died of alcohol poisoning while
staying here in 1953, while Nancy Spungen died here after being stabbed by her Sex Pis-
tols boyfriend Sid Vicious in 1978.
(
HISTORIC BUILDING
212-243-3700; 222 W 23rd St, btwn Seventh & Eighth Aves;
1, C/E to 23rd St)
