I WENT TO ¡ARRIBA! TO THE HIGH LINE.

Last Wednesday, June 19, I went to ¡Arriba!; The community Dance Party at the High Line at West 16th Street and Chelsea Market Passage. 

From 6 pm to 9 pm everybody here at the High Line were dancing Salsa and Merengue under the rhythm of Orlando Marin, the  Bronx Native, who formed his first band in the 1950s. Since then Marin and his team of musicians have become the longest running Latin band in New York City after the legendary Tito Puente.

Orlando Marin and his band.

Everybody  were dancing.

I couldn't resist to dance salsa here with my sister.



THE HIGH LINE IN NYC:

The High Line is a 1-mile (1.6 km) New York City linear park built on a 1.45-mile (2.33 km) section of the former elevated New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line, which runs along the lower west side of Manhattan; it has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway. 

A similar project in Paris (the nearly 3 mile Promenade plantée, completed in 1993) was the inspiration for this project. The High Line Park currently runs from Gansevoort Street, three blocks below West 14th Street, in the Meatpacking District, up to 30th Street, through the neighborhood of Chelsea to the West Side Yard, near the Javits Convention Center.

The recycling of the railway into an urban park has spurred real estate development in the neighborhoods which lie along the line.

The next ¡Arriba! community dance Party at the High Line will be Wednesday, July 24 with Liliana Araújo and her lively band Forró da Madame and Wednesday, August 21, Inspired by the guajiro musical rhythms of Cuba, Nu D’Lux.

See more information about the next  ¡Arriba! community dance Party at the High Line web:http://www.thehighline.org