Maggie's Farm

The Meatpacking District around Gansevoort St (at the southern end of the High Line) has been transformed into a chic neighborhood of fancy stores and cafes, and lovely women. We began our hike there, next to the new Whitney Museum.

In the good olde days, train ferries brought cattle, pigs, etc from the New Jersey railhead to the north entrance to the elevated railroad next to where the Javits Center is now, and trained them downtown to the slaughterhouses and packing houses.

 Now that elevated rail is a rightly-popular walking trail. When it was proposed, I thought it was the dumbest idea ever. Wrong again.

Some remnants of the old time survive: