Maggie's Farm

The midtown west side of Boom Town, USA has been transformed over the past decade. First came the giant high end residential Trump complex, as seen in my car pic below from the West Side highway. River views. A city itself, built on the old Hudson Line railroad yard. I think one or two more such apartment towers are in the works.

If you stroll over to the far west end of 42nd St., new luxury construction is everywhere. It all feels kinda sterile, but people want to live there now.

The new new thing is Hudson Yard, a bit downtown from that Trump development, just south of the terrible Javits Convention Center. This is an ambitious centrally-planned neighborhood (by urban experts which means it probably will not work),  but it is a yuuuge project.

It's being built atop the Long Island Railroad yards, as seen in my pic last Sunday from the High Line. Cranes everywhere as the project proceeds:

While I prefer human-scale, older neighborhoods, it's impossible not to be impressed by what can happen in a prosperous and vibrant city.