Not just about the river, there are amazing buildings along the waterfront. Old and new, these two are neighbors, across from the pair of piers above Christopher Street.

One represents the Pre-Titanic disaster seafaring era, all those hotels, for both the elegant as well as the steerage, plus the storefronts and warehouses associated to the industry.

The other reflects the burst of a more recent boom of modern day architecture along with that pair of gardened piers above Christopher Street with the grass and trees.

What would Walt Whitman think of this activity, of his, my, city with it's hustlers and gay lovers, mixed up among the mothers with strollers and half naked roller bladers, and the drag queen high schoolers primping and parading and pickpocketing?