Photos: Hibakusha On The Highline 2012

One of our favorite places to relax after a hard day’s work is the Highline, a new park on the West Side of Manhattan.  Youth Arts New York founder Robert Croonquist is a charter member of Friends of the Highline and Dupuy’s Landing, one of our bases, is just a short walk from the 23^rd Street entrance.  Despite the beauty of the Highline, there is a dark reminder of things past.  The Williams and Baker Warehouses on 20^th Street once housed the uranium used to fuel the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  It now houses the temporary headquarters of Friends of the Highline.  One day after a walk on the Highline we joined David Janes of the United States Japan Foundation for dinner at Rockefeller Center.