Trouble at the High Line. It seems that guests of the Standard Hotel, which overlooks the converted railway, have been offering performances of a sexual nature for the benefit of those who wander beneath. Some of these performances, even the solo shows, have been rather graphic, and neighbors are up in arms! Fortunately, the hotel has a plan to address the issue: They're going to make a "concerted effort to remind guests of the transparency of the guest room windows," which will surely not give anyone who hadn't already considered it any ideas.

The High Line park, ten years in the making, officially opened yesterday. What's striking on the High Line, apart from its delightfully uneven poured walkways (the arguments and code-wrangling there must have been!) and benches on wheels, is what you can see not on but from the narrow strip of railway. It presents an idealized, bizarre version of New York City, a west side skyline you haven't seen before. Disorienting! Where are we? READ MORE