A NYC Walk in Springtime

 

Hi everyone! This week's walk is a change of pace and scenery for us all. I asked a friend who lives in Manhattan to send me photos of the city in early spring. Let's welcome our guest photographer! I hope you enjoy exploring his neighborhood. 

He lives in lower Manhattan, in Battery Park City, a  quiet and pristine neighborhood that was created in the 1970s on reclaimed land made with the rocks and soil dug out to create the original WTC Twin Towers that once stood a few blocks east.

You can see the new Tower that looms above the city now. So imposing and futuristic, isn't it.

I expected Spring to be much more advanced in the city. The daffodils are showing bravely though and in a few weeks the shrubs and trees will be in colorful bloom.

This residential area is clean, quiet and uncrowded . It faces  the south end of the Hudson River and NY Harbor. The Statue of Liberty is a daily companion off to the south a bit.

                                                       

Here is the atrium in my friend's building. Totally enclosed, this lovely interior  garden is private, for resident use only.

Outside, the water's edge has a wide promenade that follows the harbor and river from Battery Park at the island's tip to I think north around Tribeca's edge or Chelsea. Much loved by walkers, dog owners, bike riders. I hope Mo and I get to visit again someday. 

more about Battery Park City here

love

lizzy

gone to the beach....