The High Line & Chelsea Market

The High Line / Chelsea Market

Walk an old elevated railway, then grab a lobster roll in a brick factory market

Hours

High Line: 7am–10pm from 1 April to 30 November, 7am–8pm from 1 December to 31 March (official site). Chelsea Market: daily 7am–10pm, closed Christmas Day; individual shops vary

Tickets

Free

Address

Chelsea Market is at 75 Ninth Avenue (15th–16th Streets); the High Line runs from Gansevoort Street north to 34th Street at Hudson Yards

This was a 1930s freight railway on stilts, now a park three storeys up where you walk between rusty rails and wild grasses with Chelsea's apartment windows at your elbow. It runs about 2.3 km from Gansevoort Street up to Hudson Yards. Drop down near 16th Street into Chelsea Market, a converted biscuit factory where a brick-and-girder corridor is lined with lobster counters, taco stands and beef noodle shops. At the north end of the High Line stands the Vessel, a honeycomb of staircases.