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Pictures at an exhibition….well not the famous composition by Modest Mussorgsky, but just a walk to the end of the High Line at Gansevoort Street to the Whitney Museum of American Contemporary Art. I’ve walked past it several times in the past, and after a visit to the museum’s web site where I found out that they have on exhibit several of the “real” artists of the 20th century, such as Georgia O’Keeffe, Andrew Wyeth, Rockwell Kent, Edward Hopper etc. Those alone would be worth the price of admission, and the museum did not disappoint it was well worth the trip. Granted there is also much of the questionable sort of art, which to me makes little sense, and actually jars the senses, but so be it, the definition of art up to each of us.
After the Whitney it was time for a lunch break, and where else but at Chelsea Market only a few minutes away, and then the trip back to the LIRR terminal, this time at Grand Central. So now it was time to do a bit of exploring by zig zagging my way to Grand Central. Walking up Sixth Avenue in the low twenties one passes through what was once known as the “Ladies Mile” home to all the big “Dry Goods” stores (today known as department stores). Several of these block long buildings still exist such as the “Hugh O’Neil” building at 20th St and Sixth avenue. Several of these are also historic cast iron buildings.
Then across town to visit on 29th St, the home of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale at the Marble Collegiate Church at Fifth Avenue and then a stop at the Church around the Corner at 1 E29th St, and then finally north to Grand Central