person walking in middle of asphalt road

On my first trip to New York City, some friends were showing me around and I had heard about a place on the West Side called the High Line. It was a walkway elevated a few stories up in the air, winding among the skyscrapers. At one point, we went into a tunnel and when it opened out again, I was confronted with an overwhelming panorama of the city. I was overcome with the scale and complexity of the city, and how there was something going on in every time corner of it, most of which I would never know about. I couldn’t do anything but grab some ice cream, take a seat, and enjoy the view.